Thursday, March 23, 2006

Dan Savage Says...

U.S. Straight Rights Update: Earlier this month Republicans in South Dakota successfully banned abortion in that state. Last week the GOP-controlled state house of representatives in Missouri voted to ban state-funded family planning clinics from dispensing birth control. 'If you hand out contraception to single women,' one Republican state rep told the Kansas City Star, 'we're saying promiscuity is okay.' On the federal level, Republicans are blocking the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception and keeping a 100 per cent effective HPV vaccine -- a vaccine that will save the lives of thousands of women every year -- from being made available.

The GOP's message to straight Americans: If you have sex, we want it to fuck up your lives as much as possible. No birth control, no emergency contraception, no abortion services, no life-saving vaccines. If you get pregnant, tough shit. You're going to have those babies, ladies, and you're going to make those child-support payments, gentlemen. And if you get HPV and it leads to cervical cancer, well, that's too bad. Have a nice funeral, slut.

What's it going to take to get a straight-rights movement off the ground? The GOP in Kansas is seeking to criminalize hetero heavy petting, for god's sake! Wake up and smell the freaking Holy War, breeders! The religious right hates heterosexuality just as much as it hates homosexuality. Fight back!

6 comments:

Miss Ash said...

This is appalling and disgusting. I don't understand how they feel they have the right to decide for women what they can and cannot ingest as well as what they can and cannot do to their own bodies.

They should make birthcontrol and abortions available to those women that may need or want them. Those that are against it do not have to partake.

Can you imagine it was the other way around and activists were saying everyone had to be on birth control or everyone had to have abortions...it would be ridiculous as well. What is right for one person is not necessarily right for the next. What happened to being able to choose what is best for you?

Jennifer said...

Obviously Miss Ash doesn't understand the idea of 'Liberty', this is 'the home of the brave and the land of the free' we are talking about here.
Ash, why do you hate freedom?

Trib said...

And they hate the Foo Fighters! Fucking bastards! And here I am at the epicenter in Kansas City. Luckily I'm on the Missouri side, though.

Trib said...

I really can't find any evidence that anyone's trying to block the HPV vaccine. Just that they shouldn't make it mandatory. Even Focus on the Family said that they thought it should be a personal decision, then listed several good reasons to get it. Dan might be a little off on that point. Kind of like "100% effective." I think not. Not to mention that they're only going for the most common varieties, not all carcinogenic strains. So actually, he's pretty far off.

Jennifer said...

I'll still be getting any HPV immunization I can get my hands on, whether or not if blocks the carcinogenic strains. The idea of HPV creeps me out, how can something be small enough to pass through the pores of a condom - yech!

Trib said...

I didn't mean to misrepresent, it will be against the most common carcinogenic strains. By FAR the most common, just not the only carcinogenic strains and there'll be ones against the genital wart strains too. And I'll be getting them too because I'm a vaccine junkie. Now for a herpes vaccine...