Birth Control Debate: New Hampshire Lawmaker Urges Married Couples To Practice Abstinence

[maddezmom]

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State Rep. Lynne Blankenbeker (R-Concord) made the claim -- noting that abstinence is available "over the counter" along with condoms -- during a legislative committee hearing on a resolution urging the Obama administration to drop the birth control requirement for religious organizations. Blankenbeker was trying to explain her position on why the administration's requirement to provide insurance coverage for birth control should be overturned.

"People with or without insurance have two affordable choices, one being abstinence and the other being condoms, both of which you can get over the counter," she said.

The comments came at the same hearing where state Rep. Jeanine Notter (R-Merrimack) claimed that birth control pills lead to prostate cancer. In an interview with Merrimack Patch, Notter said that she was referring to studies discussing potentially high levels of estrogen in the environment through birth control pills and a connection to prostate cancer.

Blankenbeker was engaged in a dialogue with Sylvia Kennedy, a New Hampshire doctor, who was testifying in support of Obama's plan. Kennedy urged the coverage of birth control and responded to Blankenbeker that condoms are not a foolproof means of contraception, and also suggested that abstinence does not work all the time, a notion Blankenbeker disagreed with.

more:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/17/birth-control-debate-new-hampshire-lawmaker-abstinence_n_1284934.html

it's not just the GOP men we need to be worrying about

[gkhouston]

1. Well, that idiocy should go over well.

Every time I think the GOP couldn't possibly dredge up any more stupid, they manage it.

[obamanut2012]

2. I was just reading this on Yahoo

These people are crazier than loons.

[HockeyMom]

3. Does she want to increase the DIVORCE rate?

Does she know that abstinence in marriage IS a grounds for divorce? It falls under "abandonment".

[no_hypocrisy]

4. "Tell Jake to sleep on the roof . . . . "

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One day she was called to a dingy tenement on Grand Street to attend a Mrs. Sadie Sachs, a victim of bungled abortion. Her husband, Jake, a truck driver, had come home to find his wife unconscious on the floor, their three children crying helplessly. A doctor confirmed that septicemia had set in, and he and Margaret Sanger struggled for two weeks to save Mrs. Sachs' life.

Present when the doctor came for his final examination of Mrs. Sachs and to pronounce her out of danger, Margaret Sanger heard her patient ask him, "What can I do to prevent another baby?"

Said the doctor, "Young woman, there's only one way. Tell Jake to sleep on the roof!"

Later that year Margaret Sanger was summoned again to the Sachs tenement, only this time she and the doctor were too late. Mrs. Sachs, pregnant again, had attempted self-abortion and died.

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http://ffrf.org/legacy/fttoday/1996/august96/gaylor.html

[Irishonly]

5. I thought I had misread

I read it again and I hadn't misread. I think if I were that silly and stupid I would make myself sit in a room all by myself in the unlikely event my silliness and stupidity would be catching,

[customerserviceguy]

6. "...birth control pills lead to prostate cancer..."

Yeah, but doesn't the guy's chances get a lot better if he stops taking them?