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Look who’s in charge of your uterus

Jill

Anti-choice? Check.
Runs a “crisis pregnancy center,” which misleads and lies to women? Check.
Proponent of abstinence-only education which tells people that they use up their ability to love after too many sexual partners? Check.

In charge of deciding how millions of federal dollars will be spent on reproductive health issues, especially for contraceptive access, education, and addressing the needs of low-income women? Indeed.

15 thoughts on Look who’s in charge of your uterus

  1. Anyone else think this is an intentional “well, fuck YOU TOO!!” move on the part of Bush? I actually am not sure he would have done this had the republicans not gotten so trounced. (he would surely have wanted to, but might not have been able to.) I wonder if he’ll swing even more to the right now, for anything where he gets to act absent congressional approval?

  2. I don’t get it. What is up with these fuckers? People in positions like these should be chosen by Congress, not our dumb ass President.

  4. Sailorman: I agree, definitely a huge Fuck You. After all that nattering about “working together”? I hope nobody on the hill took that shit seriously.

  6. Talk To Action has a story about this guy, including a PDF of his ghastly violation. It probably violates the laws of science and copyright– given his horrifying use of cartoon characters– but definitely violates most graphic design theories I’ve heard of.

  8. Funny, I can hardly talk to anyone when I haven’t gotten laid in a long time because of how pissy I get.

    So much for bonding because of oxytocin.

  9. Oh, lovely. Sometimes I think the next Presidential election is coming up too soon (because this recent election was stressful, and I want a break), and other times, I know that it can’t come soon enough.

    The article at Feministing had a link to some Catholic Answers: Chastity Question, which provided this delightful little analogy:

    In more basic terms, sharing the gift of sex is like putting a piece of tape on another person’s arm. The first bond is strong, and it hurts to remove it. Shift the tape to another person’s arm and the bond will still work, but it will be easier to remove. Each time this is done, part of each person remains with the tape. Soon it is easy to remove because the residue from the various arms interferes with the tape’s ability to stick. The same is true in relationships, where previous sexual experiences interfere with the ability to bond.

    But what I find interesting is that they claim that the bonds are easier to break as you add notches to your bedpost. In other words, have sex with more people, and the pain of relationships ending diminishes. Woohoo!

  11. Love it, Josh. But then if the plural of uterUS is uteri, where does that leave us?
    -oh, wait, that means one person gets to decide for everyone else. Even that part fits.

  12. I looked at that PDF–it’s just…unbelievable. Aside from the fact that it looks like it was composed by an utterly crazy person (it’s like the medical equivalent of some dude standing on the sidewalk with a cardboard sign about the end of the world), I have a few problems with this presentation.

    Like, who did these “studies?” Where did they come from? Were they reviewed?

    I did a quick electronic search of peer-reviewed scientific/academic journals our library has in its holdings; I don’t think the man has ever published anything (mind you, this is a very, very superficial search). This is really the person they’re going to appoint to a prominent health care position in the federal government?

    Shiiiiit…I just work for doctors and even I know that this guy is pulling stuff out of his ass.

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