Fox News ‘expert’ compares free birth control to forced abortions

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By Stephen C. Webster

Making access to birth control easier for American women is akin to “unrestricted, unlimited sex anytime,” and China’s policy of only allowing one child per couple, according to an abortion “expert” featured on Fox News on Tuesday.

Family-PAC Vice President Sandy Rios was invited on Fox’s “America’s Newsroom” to discuss the Obama administration’s order that insurance providers cover birth control at no extra cost. Opposite her was Jehmu Greene, the former president of Women’s Media Center, who argued in favor of the plan.

Reminded that half of the pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned — which ultimately drives up the number of abortions — Rios strongly objected.

“Why in the world would you encourage your daughters, and your granddaughters, and whoever else comes behind you, to have unrestricted, unlimited sex anytime, anywhere and that, somehow if you prevent pregnancy, that somehow you’ve helped them,” she replied.

Rios went on to compare the free birth control policy to China’s one-child policy, which requires women to have an abortion if the couple has already given birth to one child. “That is the control we’re moving toward,” she said.

This video is from Fox News, broadcast Tuesday, August 2, 2011

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/fox-news-expert-compares-free-birth-control-to-forced-abortions/

[spanone]

1. faux reports the way ignorant people think....it's intentional

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. I saw that! Almost posted about it! I was amazed!

[SpiralHawk]

3. DU expert compares Right Wing Advice 'Experts' to Diaper-Sex Dipshit Drooling Deviants

...as long as so-called Republicon propaganda 'moralists' are once again flushing the rhetoric into the realm of the odious...I thot I would spew my own freaking EXPERT opinion...

[sakabatou]

4. Wha- oh yeah, it's Fox "news"

[aquart]

5. Murdoch needs his FCC license revoked.

But President Spaghetti will never do it.

[ejpoeta]

6. i don't know how educating your children and encouraging them to use birth control

is somehow encouraging them to have unlimited sex anytime anywhere. I think not educating them and teaching them abstinence only is basically increasing the odds they will be in a position where they will end up with some sort of STD or pregnant because they simply lack the tools to know or be informed. I became pregnant by accident but I was with my boyfriend of two years. At least I was 25 at the time. And at least I was 23 before I lost my virginity. It could have been much earlier and I can tell you that it would have been because I was raised catholic and in my family you didn't talk about that kind of thing. No one told me anything about that sort of thing. And I didn't ask because I didn't talk about that kind of thing either.

I can assure you I am going to make sure that as uncomfortable as I still am about it, even though I am married with three kids, I will make sure not to pass that on to them. I try to raise confident girls and to give them focus and encouragement in the things they are interested in. To know that their worth is in themselves and not in someone else and not in a guy. Because I hope that it is THAT that will help them to wait. I will also be there to answer questions when they ask. Or if they don't feel comfortable asking me, make sure they have someone who they feel comfortable asking who can give them answers. Because I know that there are kids who think you can get pregnant from kissing. And that is something they will pass on to my kids if my kids don't get the real information from me.

My daughter is 12. She has already started to develop. She is already capable of being pregnant. She doesn't seem to exhibit any curiosity that I am aware of regarding this subject. She likes to draw Sonic characters and she loves to learn. She loves reading and loves Greek Mythology. Not sure if she still wants to be a volcanologist when she grows up, but she was at the top of her class last year and I intend to continue trying to help her the best I can. And educating her as best I can. Because I know what awaits her. I've been there. And I was not prepared for it. I want to make sure she is.

[Supersedeas]

7. Isn't contraception merely a logical extension of their objection to abortion?

They want to get into your bedrooms...they want the GOVERNMENT to get into EVERYONE'S bedroom to make sure that his sperm and her eqgs are not interfered with by the overwise autonomous human beings having sex.

Abortion opponents want a say in your sex practices and they want BIG GOVERNMENT to have a part to play in the prevention of any obstacles that might obstruct the potential birth of a child. They want Government interference to begin from the moment a sexual event is contemplated.

Yet, they claim that Big Government is something which they find objectionable. It is not a Pro Life argument (that's merely campaign sloganeering), their argument really is directed toward the human sexual autonomy. Sex itself is something that they want to control.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Does anyone NOT know that these Jesus drunk nutjobs are anti-contraception?

I mean, hello!

[HockeyMom]

9. Ok, MARRIED MEN

You don't want unrestricted, unliminted sex, anywhere, and anytime, with your WIVES, that doesn't lead to MORE CHILDREN for your support??????

Do these morons think the ONLY people having sex and using birth control are "sluts" and men who cannot keep their "pants zipped"?

Personnally, I had two kids and NEVER HAD AN ABORTION. Birth Control WORKS.

[REP]

10. What's wrong with unlimited, unrestricted sex? What am I missing?

I am someone's daughter and granddaughter. What's wrong with unlimited, unrestricted sex? Might it lead to dancing?

[lapislzi]

13. +!!

I'm a mom, daughter, granddaughter. Could lead to playing cards. :P

More sex for all! That would go a long way towards loosening up some tight asses.

[RainDog]

20. k and fucking r

and LOL about the dancing.

this should be the right winger's motto: heaven forbid that women might enjoy their bodies.

cause that's what they really want.

[Ilsa]

11. Other "news" on FUX: driving without a seatbelt makes you have car crashes intentionally. nt

[Qutzupalotl]

12. Well...

aside from the one being voluntary and the other forced, one avoiding pregnancy and the other ending it, and both being completely different from each other...they're exactly the same!

[saras]

14. It's like comparing a frog to a gerund

[saras]

15. The words of someone who's never, ever had good sex

"Why in the world would you encourage your daughters, and your granddaughters, and whoever else comes behind you, to have unrestricted, unlimited sex anytime, anywhere..."

[StarsInHerHair]

16. compare & contrast with how President Clinton vetoed their Religious madness

they are not science-based, they are using religion-2000 year out of date religion at that.



Using the logic of your argument I will conclude men are addicted to controllin­g women and don't realize the pain that causes. Their controllin­g nature encouraged by Patriarchy has now reached to the point of repeatedly trying to alter women's lives. The pain of this might be less if not for women being educated for decades being non judgmental when it comes to male sexuality only to see theirs held to traditiona­l standards of control.

Something making men uncomforta­ble does not mean it needs to be banned or restricted­. Sometimes those men just need to grow up

[Maru Kitteh]

17. This is your Republican party of today, ladies and gentlemen.

Grand Old Party like it's 1611.

[quaker bill]

18. There was a time some years ago now

that I would have enjoyed, "unrestricted, unlimited sex anytime, anywhere", but I never actually found it. Birth control was however widely available and HIV - AIDS was unknown. I am thinking there was something else involved.

[Mimosa]

19. The crazy is off the charts now. No wonder I never click on Faux anymore. n/t

[REP]

21. Unrestricted, unlimited sex anytime might lead to dancing!

Or women enjoying sex without worrying about unwanted pregnancies or taking care of baby after baby after baby. Or - gasp!!! - might not have any babies at all! Only truly wicked, selfish women never have children and giving them birth control just leads them down this evil path!

(In case I need to remind anyone, no children + sterilized twice ... and a pretty good dancer)