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Hey Congress! Focus on Jobs, Not on Us!
Front-Ranger:
Talk about fiddling while Rome burns, what is Congress doing messing with women's rights when it's clear to see that they should be focusing on jobs and the economy? Apparently a bill has passed the Senate aiming to make sure government money isn't used for abortions.
(Added) This bill is so convoluted. From what I understand, it prohibits health insurers (which are private companies, not the government) from paying for covered abortion services to any organization that also receives Federal funds. Effectively, what insurers will do is stop paying for abortions altogether and then we'll be back to where we started from, with black market abortion clinics springing up along with Draconian techniques that kill, maim or cause suffering to more women.
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Some people think the simple solution is for women to abstain from sex if they can't afford children. However, that doesn't take into account the other half of the equation, poor young men. These men are primarily looking for free entertainment and sex. There are no consequences of their actions since they plan to be long gone from the scene when the pregnancy asserts itself. Poor young women are the victims of rape, pressure and abuse and they pay for it with a decades-long sentence of hard manual labor and a lifelong one-way trip to the land of poverty.
delalluvia:
--- Quote ---Some people think the simple solution is for women to abstain from sex if they can't afford children. However, that doesn't take into account the other half of the equation, poor young men.
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They never take men into account for this because men are never going to restrict men's sexual freedom. On the other hand, they're always more than happy to try to regulate and restrict women's sexual freedom.
Monika:
--- Quote from: Scare-Ranger on October 18, 2011, 04:17:57 pm ---Talk about fiddling while Rome burns, what is Congress doing messing with women's rights when it's clear to see that they should be focusing on jobs and the economy? Apparently a bill has passed the Senate aiming to make sure government money isn't used for abortions.
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so it comes down to money whether a woman can have an abortion or not. What the hell are they thinking?
milomorris:
This isn't about women's rights from a Congressional perspective. This is about how federal tax revenues---a/k/a your money and mine--is being spent. Its also about the role of government, and abuse of funds.
Marge_Innavera:
Let someone propose that men abstain from sex to ensure that unplanned pregnancies don't happen and see how far that would get.
Of course, this is a feminist perspective so some folks might want to take that into account...
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