Makes me SOOOOOOOOOO fucking furious.
Are we surprised that Dubya's thinking on women's
rights as humans and thinking beings who need to
control their own reproduction in order to be better
educated and to be able to compete in the economic
world is something he's against? Looks like he and
his cronies prefer American women to be alongside
burka-wearers in Muslim countries.
Here's the CNN story:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/....ap/index.htmlHis guy Keroack has a group:
"A Woman's Concern [a Christian nonprofit] is
persuaded that the crass commercialization and
distribution of birth control is demeaning to women,
degrading of human sexuality and adverse to human
health and happiness."
A news blurb on NPR this morning about a government
report highlights that federal money has been going to
fund various "faith based" family planning that have
programs that have no accounability requirement for
effectiveness, accuracy or scientific validation.
Another winner was Dubya's previous appointment of
(evangelical) Dr. David Hager to an FDA advisory
committee that determined the fate of contraceptive
approvals.
Hager's ex-wife (Ms. Davis) describes their marriage:
""Sex was coinage; it was a commodity," she said.
Sometimes Hager would blithely shift from vaginal to
anal sex. Davis protested. "He would say, 'Oh, I
didn't mean to have anal sex with you; I can't feel
the difference,'" Davis recalls incredulously. "And I
would say, 'Well then, you're in the wrong business.'"
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050530/mcgarveyDr. Hager, who couldn't tell his wife's vagina from
her asshole, is a gynecologist.
