TDPS: Republicans set to go after contraception and THE PILL next...yes, the pill - TRANSCRIPT

[celtics23]

Run time: 04:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snnXb5MZoFI   Posted on YouTube: April 19, 2011 By YouTube Member: MidweekPolitics Views on YouTube: 489   Posted on DU: April 21, 2011 By DU Member: celtics23 Views on DU: 1089

 
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David: Well, by the way, this is a good segue, now the Republicans are starting to go after sexual health and the pill, and the-- and contraceptives. The battle is just starting on this. We're transitioning from abortion, and I know, Louis, you're very concerned about this, we're transitioning from abortion to issues of contraception and sexual health in an absurdly conservative way. If you think the Planned Parenthood battle was bad, just wait. This worries you, right, Louis?

Louis: Of course, yeah.

David: Yeah. The war on contraception and general sexual health care is just getting started. Liberals need to be ready for the fact that contraception access and funding is now also going to be called into question by Republicans. A lot of the budget talk, you need to know this to get an idea of why... what's going on, a lot of the abortion funding talk with the budget over the last couple of weeks was not really about funding for abortion, because the funds in dispute could not actually be used for abortions. This fact seems to be lost on many. It really was money for STD testing, mostly STD testing, birth control, cancer screenings, 97% of what Planned Parenthood does is not abortion.

And now we are starting to see anti-contraception sentiment becoming mainstream in the Republican Party despite the fact, I know it, Richard Nixon and George Bush played a huge role in supporting expansion of access to contraceptives. Now, we have to remember, they did it for population control, not for pro-feminist reasons, but hey, they did it nonetheless, right? I don't know if the-- if the ends... if the ends are good, if the means matter.

Republicans we know have been all over the issue of abortion, but they've been silent, really, on the contraception topic, and it's politically savvy to stay silent because 99% of sexually active women have used contraception, so why would you want to be very active against that? But suddenly you have Rush Limbaugh, lover of Viagra and serial marriage, agreeing that the only form of birth control he finds acceptable is closing your legs. Glenn Beck tried to drive a point home by claiming only people... the only people who defend Planned Parenthood are "hookers". Contraception is going to come up as a big issue here, Louis, no question about it.

Louis: And these are the types of issues that they should be avoiding. I think this is why people are...

David: Abort? They should be aborting these issues?

Louis: Avoiding.

David: Oh.

Louis: I didn't say aborting.

David: I thought you had a Freudian slip there.

Louis: No, no, no. Did I? No, no. No way.

David: I mean, Health and Human Services is going to release new guidelines on women's health care in August, so there's actually going to be a formal list. We're going to have to see a list, Louis, of which preventative health care services have to be covered in full by insurers. Now, obviously common sense indicates that preventing unintended pregnancies is the very definition of preventative care. It's the definition, that's what it is.

Louis: Preventive care.

David: Yes. And anti-choice groups are gearing up to fight the possibility that contraception makes the list of covered services. Why would anyone fight that? Why? It's an opportunity for Republicans to grandstand on health care, grandstand on health care reform, all under the specter of hey, your dollars can't go to someone's erotic, immoral lifestyle, so let's not fund contraception.

Louis: I think this can only be a bad thing. I mean, when someone brings this up in a debate against a Republican and says why aren't you focusing on our budget, why aren't you focusing on our deficit?

David: Well, they would say we are. Your money is going to fund a...

Louis: Yeah. We're talking about a pretty negligible amount of money in the grand scheme of things.

David: The NPR funding was negligible in the grand scheme of things, that didn't stop Republicans from completely losing their heads over it.

Louis: But that needs... it needs to be brought up that the amount of money we're talking about is negligible.

David: I agree with you. It's very hard to get past the corporate media spin, though.

Louis: Very true.

David: The story that's told there is of do we need to be funding public broadcasting like the crazy Communists in Britain, or do we need to not be doing that? When we could be saying you know what? Let's close one of our 50 bases in Germany and we'll cover that cost. Let's close two and we could open up a whole brand new series of public broadcasting outlets. Oh, but those would be Communist, too. They would allow Communist, socialist, Marxist, Muslim, Kenyan, Indonesian, Hawaiian, Native American Obama to go on there and talk about how he wants a Communist economy and to be picking people's jobs for them and having everybody earn the same amount of money. That's what it would turn to, that's the sad thing.

Louis: I think you're right.

David: It's a sad commentary.

Louis: It is.



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[kestrel91316]

1. And next they will go after women's right to work outside the home if

they have a working spouse.

You heard it here first.

[catbyte]

2. Let's all just go back to the Dark Ages and keep us all

barefoot and pregnant. That's the GOTP wet dream. :mad:

Diane
Anishinabe inMI

[TaylorWatts]

7. Over my dead body

[DCKit]

3. The TaliBaptists.

Fundamentalists are all the same - women and children last.

[EC]

4. If they make enough noise about this

so that regular (non-paying attention)people hear it, they're going to loose a lot of female support in the repub party. I've been telling friends that vote what their husbands tell them (repub)that the repub party wants to make it so no one has access to the pill and they pooh-poohed it. They would say "why would they want to do that" or "no they won't" etc. -but they wouldn't vote to loose the pill - they just won't.

[Yavin4]

5. It's The Big Moneyed Elites Pandering to Regressives

Every nation has regressive elements among its population, and that includes enlightened social democracies of Northwestern Europe. The difference is that the big, moneyed elites in those nations do not pander to their regressive elements. Ours do. They pander because getting votes from regressives allow them to elect pols who will cut taxes and de-regulate their businesses.

[florida08]

6. oh yeah

because not funding contraceptions will lead to lower abortion rates? Please get religion out of politics..these people don't read and haven't a clue about the real world.

[felix_numinous]

8. Women (and men) better get into fighting shape.

We have to start all over again with these fools.

[lonestarlib]

9. This is no suprise to anyone who

is familiar with ALEC.

[indy legend]

10. I thought the right wing fuckers were all about keeping big

government out of our lives and individual freedom. Have I mentioned today how much I hate these damn people.