"Abstinence Only" Rep Cassidy's unwed teen daughter is pregnant. Can he work AND be good father?

[Scuba]

How's that "abstinence only" working out for ya, Bill?


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/05/1311905/-GOP-Abstinence-Only-Rep-Cassidy-s-unwed-teen-daughter-is-pregnant-Can-he-work-AND-be-good-father#

Co-sponsor of Abstinence Only legislation, Rep. Bill Cassidy (R) announced his unwed, 17 year old daughter is pregnant. Not long ago, Matt Lauer asked a female CEO if she could work and be a good mother. At the time, many people wondered why men are not asked the same type of question.

GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy's idea of a good father is a father who promotes abstinence only. In fact, Rep. Bill Cassidy co-sponsored the abstinence only bill in the US Congress which is titled "Abstinence Education Reallocation Act of 2013" ... hmmm ...

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It appears that teaching "abstinence only" in his home failed as GOP Rep. Cassidy's daughter is an unwed, pregnant teen going into her senior year of high school. GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy also supported Roy Blunt's 2012 "moral conviction" legislation.

Recall, Roy Blunt's 2012 "moral conviction" legislation exempted employers from providing any health coverage that went against their "religious beliefs or moral convictions." That meant, Blunt's 2012 "moral conviction" legislation exempted all employers who had a "moral" objection from: providing birth control coverage, allow bigots to claim a “moral” objection to providing health coverage for minorities; employers with "moral" disdain for single mothers could deny them maternity coverage; Scientologists could deny coverage for mental health care; and over 20 million women receiving coverage for preventive services would have lost that coverage.

[randys1]

1. Men who promote abstinence only do so because they cant get laid

[intheflow]

2. Probably not. More likely they do it because they want to control their women.

The fact that this guy has a daughter means he's gotten laid.

[Orrex]

5. Or his wife has, at least.

[intheflow]

46. True.

Then he should demand a DNA test in his family rather than punish the rest of us.

[Orrex]

47. I think that's a terrible idea

This brave woman might be all that's protecting us from the spread of his DNA, and you want to screw that up?!?

[intheflow]

53. You're evil.

I like that in a person!

[randys1]

6. The reason they want to control Women is Women have told them NO when they wanted

sex...ask ANY rightwing anti Woman male about his history with Women, he will tell you how they tease him and this and that, very common

[mopinko]

15. actually, imho, it is because the male human animal has an innate fear of being a cuckhold.

it is the wild card for the male that stays and invest in a few offspring w one or a small number of women.
to raise another man's child is to lose the evolutionary lottery. to fail at passing on that dna packet.
the rewards for success are large. male involvement was a huge leap for the species.

you may think you have a mind of your own, but it has a mind of IT'S own. and for most human animals, that mind has only one goal, passing on that dna.

[Louisiana1976]

34. Exactly.

[mopinko]

41. evolutionary psychology is much maligned

because of those who pick and choose. those who use it to justify their own base instincts, instead of using it to find their better selves.
but i find it a most, most useful lens for understanding the human animal.

[roguevalley]

8. Just sent him an email that will probably land me in hell. (Use 70808+ then make up a four number

addition)

I asked him if this meant his daughter was a slut, if they were both going to hell, that he was a rotten parent or did this only apply to everyone else. It was cathartic.

[yeoman6987]

29. Really?

That is really a very outlandish statement.

[rhett o rick]

45. They are authoritarians and they think they can rule their own homes. Idiots. nm

[avebury]

3. If his daughter does not listen to her Dad, why

should the voters?

[Liberalynn]

9. +1

[LittleGirl]

20. +2

[Louisiana1976]

35. +3

[Doctor_J]

4. his web page and Facebook should be peppered with HYPOCRITE

every minute between now and Nov

[hughee99]

37. Exactly, it boggles me that he's pushing for abstinence only while encouraging his own daughter

to be sexually active... unless, of course, you don't think his daughter getting pregnant was his idea.

[Doctor_J]

38. The Palin Syndrome

The Wicked Witch Of The North let Levi and Barbasol have unprotected sex in her house, while she was there, when the kids were in high school. Now she and the teen mom are getting rich preaching abstinence only.

We need some radio stations to lambaste these hypocrites 24/7

[hughee99]

39. Is it really hypocrisy when a CHILD doesn't do what a PARENT says they should?

I don't think that's the right word for this.

[PowerToThePeople]

7. Cassidy is an idiot

America is a failed nation, you just have to look at our "Representatives" to see this. Stupid runs amok. MSM is nothing but corporate propaganda. The people of this nation have no representation in Government.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security

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[Jack Rabbit]

10. Now we know what to call the teen daughter of an abstinance only ideologue

A mother.

[Louisiana1976]

36. True.

[libdem4life]

11. Yes, remembering the Bristol Palin hypocrisy. Something about glass houses and throwing rocks???

Dimwits.

[calimary]

12. Sigh... People of Baton Rouge... WHAT were you thinking?

Sixth district, Louisiana.

http://cassidy.house.gov

Look at the map of his district. Looks TOTALLY gerry-mandered the way it skeedaddles around every which-a-way. It looks like a map of Italy and coastal Greece drawn by either a three-year-old or a drunk. But instead of where the Mediterranean Sea is, around the boot of Italy and the Grecian west coast, there's just more land instead of water. Hmmm... wonder who THEY were trying to cut around, to get that weird misshapen jurisdiction...

[MADem]

26. It looks like a map of Italy and coastal Greece drawn by either a three-year-old or a drunk.

You have a (brilliant) way with words!!!!!!!!

[Historic NY]

13. The aspirin didn't work.

[MrMickeysMom]

23. Ain't THAT the truth!

… "Oh…. This is SO hard holding it between my knees!"

[Personal Damon]

14. HA

I love it!

[toby jo]

16. Poor kid. Now she's young, pregnant, and a working symbol of abuse from her dad, no doubt.

Wonder if she'll wind up on tv telling us all how great single parenthood and her dear old dad is, like Bristol?

Probably, at least for awhile.

[Scarsdale]

18. Single parent

Bristol Palin IS a big fan of single parenthood, so much so she has had a couple more kids since then. No husband, yet, she still has "trial husbands" who keep escaping!! This young woman will be alright, it is only poor kids who are "sluts" Girls with affluent parents just "make mistakes"

[tammywammy]

40. Bristol Palin only has one child. n/t

[liberalhistorian]

42. Umm...not to defend the Palins or anything, but

Bristol only has one child and she has not had a series of "trial husbands who keep escaping".

[BrotherIvan]

30. Yes, it is very sad for her

She could not choose contraception nor abortion if she wanted to. Now she is a forced mother at seventeen to fit her father's agenda. And will be shamed publicly for doing exactly what the pro-lifers demand that she do and I am sure shamed by her whacko family every day she raises the child. It's gross on so many levels.

[StevieM]

49. Actually, what many pro-lifers really want is for every single child born out of wedlock

to be given up for adoption. They think that single mothers are "sinners" who are not good enough for their own children.

There is something worse than being a forced mother...and that is being a forced birth mother.

I agree that she should have been given access to sex education and contraception and I agree that she should have been given the option of abortion.

[BrotherIvan]

50. I think their agenda is becoming clear and they think everyone should have huge Duggar style familie

It's a way to make sure women are poor and cannot get an education or pursue a career. They talk about minorities having too many abortions but I bet none of them want to adopt a baby with black or brown skin. They don't care about Chinese abortions. They are selfish, deluded people who only want to force their agenda on everyone else. It's a cult mentality and they need to be stopped now.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Damn,...I was hoping Matt Lauer was the father.

[napkinz]

19. ...

[MADem]

25. WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nt

[Scarsdale]

21. Religion

If the gop keeps pushing their religious ideas, girls like this will be STONED to death. Must be too late for one of those democratic abortions, eh??

[RobertEarl]

22. Now that is embarrassing

He is not a good father. He has failed at fatherhood. Maybe he failed is because he can't see past the end of his nose?

These hypocrites running around telling other people what to do, while they lie to themselves, should just shut up and go away. Yet somehow they get elected?

His poor daughter is now made a subject on the www because of him and his mouth. He has failed her twice. She should get as far away from him as she possibly can. He is abusive; probably even a physical abuser.

[MADem]

24. He didn't impregnate the child!!!!!!!!!! He is NOT the father--to quote Maury....!!!!!!!!

He is the rich granddaddy, who can provide for his grandchild, while denying the grandchildren of those less fortunate than his daughter access to social programs to assist them while they acquire the skills to provide for themselves.

In sum, his future grandchild is "privileged." The future grandparents of the offspring of poorer single teens can, to quote Dick Cheney, go fuck themselves!

I will say, that "Abstinence Only" stance is a great thing to roll up and beat him over the head with! I hope it happens EARLY AND OFTEN.

[Scarsdale]

28. Oh, my.

I wonder if she knows WHO the father is, and which race he is? Would be poetic justice if the father is one of three being tested for their DNA on Maury!! Poor girls are the ones who need to practice abstinence, since the rest of them can have their bills paid by their parents. Sarah Palin has several grandkids by her eldest daughters, neither of whom are married.

[MADem]

32. I thought Willow just had a "pregnancy SCARE" and bought a test but "dodged the bullet" as it were.

That was tabloid fodder and not much more.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/willow-palin-pregnancy-shocker?cid=RSS%20




Was there a pregnancy that didn't get any national coverage? Hmmm!

But it is really ironic that the group that screams about abstinence and No Birth Control For YOU!!! is the same group that has these embarrassing OOOOPSIE moments!

[IggleDoer]

27. It could have been an immaculate conception.

The kid's carrying Jeebus.

[Helen Borg]

31. A case of immaculate conception, obviously.

[erpowers]

33. How Did It Happen?

I know how babies are made. My point is how did the unwed daugther of an abstinence only Republican get pregnant outside of marriage? Did her parents talk to her about sex? Did they encourage her not to have sex until she was married? Did her parents know she was having sex?

[Cha]

43. It's the hypocrisy, Stupid.

[IronLionZion]

44. Or she'll be be forced into a nonconsensual teen marriage

which often happens with these types.

Whatever happens, the baby didn't ask for any of this.

[kwolf68]

48. Just another casualty of the moral majority

who want to preach (and in some cases legislate) to others how to live.

[3catwoman3]

51. He is now qualified to be the...

...Republican VP nominee.

[samsingh]

52. repug values (sic) are a joke