Pro-Life Activist: Birth Control Is A ‘Pesticide’ That Will Make Women ‘Like Men’

[babylonsister]

:banghead: :banghead:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/birth-control-unruh/

Pro-Life Activist: Birth Control Is A ‘Pesticide’ That Will Make Women ‘Like Men’

On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration “approved the first birth control pill that eliminates a woman’s monthly period.”

Yesterday on Fox New’s Your World With Neil Cavuto, Leslee Unruh, president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, argued that this pill a “pesticide” that will make women “like men.” She called it an “attack on children and families,” ending the segment with shouts of, “I want more babies. More babies. We love babies.” Watch it at link~

As Mary Alice Carr from NARAL pointed out, 98 percent of American women will use contraception at some point in their lives. No one is forcing women to use this form of birth control. This pill will not prevent women from ever having children, and will help women who find their periods too painful. Many medical professionals believe that “menstrual suppression could have some health benefits.”

Unruh led the fight for the “nation’s most sweeping abortion ban” in South Dakota in 2006, and her Abstinence Clearinghouse receives funding from the federal government. In 2001, Unruh said that she has received “nothing but support from the Bush administration.”

(HT: The Blue State)

Transcript:

UNRUH: This is a real war on women and war on children and it’s a gift to be able to have children. And our fertility is precious to us. And we do not need Big Pharma, National Abortion Rights Action League, who have had a war on children and on babies, to now come in with another drug and to play G-d.
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CAVUTO: But this isn’t an abortion or not related pill to you, this is just sortof a personal choice kind of a pill?

CARR: Sure, 98% of American women at some point in their lives use contraception. This is not something to disagree on. Leslie’s the one whose way out there on the side on this. Ask anyone.

UNRUH: Oh oh oh . Let me tell you about way out there. Way out there is playing G-d, Way out there is wanting us, women, who are feminine and have fertility and it’s something to celebrate, wanting us to be like men, c’mon!

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CARR: I mean, I think the absolute reality is that families decide among themselves when they’re best able to have a child, when they’re best able to bring another child into their lives.

CAVUTO: You don’t think as some of the reports are that this drug goes too far and will make that an option that’s out–

CARR: It doesn’t do anything other than any other birth control pill does, except help women that have maybe menstrual periods that cause them a lot of pain, they have endometriosis, they have a lot of issues where their period every month is actually a problem for them. This actually would help them to actually avoid that pain.

UNRUH: Lies, lies, lies, lies, and more lies.

CAVUTO: Why are you saying that Leslie?

Planned Parenthood and NARAL have been out there trying to control women for many years. And fertility is a gift, it’s a wonderful thing. We need to celebrate our fertility, there are so many women that want to have children and the last thing they need is Big Pharma, Big Pharma, pesticides being put into our bodies.

CARR: And they can when they want to have those children, Leslie!

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CARR: “I think that the very best thing we have to do in this country is find a way to bring down the unintended pregnancy rate, which leads to bringing the abortion rate, and the best way to do that is birth control.”

CAVUTO: Well this is the magic pill to do just that, right? But this is the magic pill to do that, right?

CARR: The best way to do that is birth control. And I want to know why people like Leslie–

CAVUTO: So, 12, 13-year-old girls taking this like chicklets would be okay?

CARR: Absolutely. What you’re saying here is actually–you’re going to make me crazy on here–what we’re saying is let’s reduce unintended pregnancy. Let’s reduce teen pregnancy. Let’s reduce the abortion rate in this country.

UNRUH: Big Pharma, here we go again, attack on children and families and on women. I want more babies. More babies. We love babies.

[SarahB]

1. It's not about abortion.

It's about control of women's bodies. She's ignorant on physiology too no less. :eyes:

[earthboundmisfit]

18. Yup. Hit the nail right on the head.

They've been pissed ever since the pill came out in the 60's that women might have control over their own bodies, and - shudder - sex for pleasure!!!

[RC Quake]

20. Well, if it completely shuts down the reproductive system...yes.

If it can stop women from having a monthly cycle, then it it putting them into a chemical menopause. Much like the Lupron injections used by many fertility clinics/doctors. This does make women more manly physiologically. This is a fact, because I have witnessed it first hand and know of some 20 other women on Lupron.

What it doesn't mean is that they will be permanently placed in this physiological state. It's temporary. I wish this option would have come around sooner, then my ass wouldn't be so sore from the injections and I would probably be able to keep my reproductive organs. This woman doesn't understand that birth control or not, babies are going to continue to be born and women will continue to be infertile. There's a balance that will always be kept.

I wanted children more than life itself, but obviously there was someone more maternal to fit that bill because I wasn't given that "gift of fertility" that she talks about so passionately.

It makes me feel so dirty!

[Madspirit]

2. I Don't Use Birth Control

Oh yeah, I'm a lesbian...<g>

This just sucks. What is it these kind of people don't get about...IF THEY DON'T WANT TO DO OR USE SOMETHING, THEY DON'T HAVE TO. Where the hell do they always get off trying to control OTHER PEOPLE?
Lee

[Brigid]

3. What was this?

It sounds like a "Moment of Zen" from the "Daily Show." :wtf:

[gollygee]

4. Taking it like Chicklets?

That's such a stupid comment that no one with a brain could take anything else she says very seriously. If a 12 or 13 year old is having sex, she needs to be using birth control. Taking medication doesn't mean you're using it like candy. No one takes medication "like Chicklets". Stupid.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. And may Leslee Unruh contend for the title of most babies produced by a human woman. She has some

stiff competition, but I'm sure if she paces herself she can turn out twenty more kids!

[sandnsea]

6. Insanity and Lies, not a point of view

I am really tired of treating cuckoo people as if they were credible.

[Zenlitened]

12. I completely agree. - n/t

[Madspirit]

7. ...and k&r...n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Unruh should be happy...

If so many of us are going to become "like men", she'll have a better chance of getting laid.

[Skinner]

9. Oh.My.God.

That woman is insane.

[NC_Nurse]

10. Jesus, what a dipshit!

I hate these oversimplifiers -"It's a gift to be able to have children." Yeah, lady -IF YOU WANT ONE!!!!

[unpossibles]

11. some have obviously abstained

from thinking. Sigh. let's get both sides, the sane, rational side and the other one.

[Initech]

13. Someone needs to go over with this idiot this whole food - air deal...

And why overpopulation is generally considered a BAD IDEA. :eyes:

[Solly Mack]

14. I direct people to this article

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=960506&mesg_id=960506

"On topics from evolution to the environment to gay marriage to immigration reform, we found that many of the opinions expressed were so off-base and ill-informed that they actually hurt society by being voiced,"

"While people have long asserted that it takes all kinds, our research shows that American society currently has a drastic oversupply of the kinds who don't have any good or worthwhile thoughts whatsoever. We could actually do just fine without them."


and submit that that woman is proof positive that satire has been rendered moot

[TZ]

15. Undoubtedly you love babies...

but only if they are rich white republican babies...goodness she is like a bad sterotype of the woman as a walking womb, with no brains...go ahead and be barefoot and pregnant if that is your choice..some of us actually have brains and want to do something with our lives besides being baby machines...

[depakid]

16. The far right is after birth control- not abortion per se

And that's exactly what's going to happen in certain sourthern and lower midwestern states WHEN Roe and Griswold are overruled.

[slackmaster]

17. Big deal, most women already do like men

:argh:

[nosmokes]

19. NARAL and PP are trying to control women?!?? that's rich!

so all the old white men that wanna take away choice from a woman they're just being gal-lant, right? for fucks sake.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. There's been this unholy matrimony recently...

Between the conservatives and the alternative medicine woos, and the preacher's named Gardasil.

[LeftyMom]

22. Ever noticed how often the anti-birth control and anti-choice women are enormously pregnant?

Yeah, me too. :sarcasm:

Apparently staying home wiping asses and firing babies out of your naughty bits like cucumber slices out of a salad shooter is for everybody else. Well fuck that shit and fuck anybody who thinks she has the right make me or any other woman pursue that life.

[Ilsa]

23. You have to be like me! Just like me! and if you aren't, God is going

to send you to hell for not having more babies for the pyramiding scheme, and you are going to turn n to a man! Oh my god! She has a job! She's able to support herself without having to subjugate herself to a man the way god wants her to! She's wearing pants! She can go swimming and camping any time she wants to! She's going to grow a beard next!

[BlooInBloo]

24. (gasp!) A woman in control of her own sexuality? !Que horror!

[janx]

25. I LIKED MY MEN A LOT BETTER WHEN I USED BIRTH CONTROL!

:rofl:


Edited to add: I "LIKED" THEM MORE OFTEN, TOO! :rofl:

[janx]

26. K&R