03-26-2012, 03:34 AM
(03-23-2012, 11:48 AM)Sabra Wrote: Now there is no party for me in America and I just want them all to shut up and leave women alone. It's one thing to be the party that loves Wall Street. It's another thing all together to be the party that dictates to women how they will manage their reproductive rights and health.
This is what I really can't understand. The end-game of a lot of Republican platforms seems to be no abortion, limiting contraception, and no sex education other than abstinence-only teaching.
I can understand the moral objection to abortion even though I disagree with it, but the rest is just flat-out stupid. People can't NOT have sex. If you remove sex education, people will have sex. If you remove contraception, people will have sex. If there was a giant hammer that smashed people's kneecaps in the most painful way if they had sex, they would still have sex. The fuel for 200,000 years worth of human existence has been GO HAVE SEX. The availability of contraception and level of understanding of sex don't even enter into the equation.
You cannot just tell people, "Yo, don't have sex unless you wanna have a baby. Also, we are not going to give you all the information on exactly how sex works. We also know how to prevent making babies while allowing you to have sex, but you can't do that either. Peace out." That's idiotic and incredibly unreasonable.
In 1967 Canada, we had a soon-to-be Prime Minister named Pierre Trudeau that said, "We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." He was speaking about the decriminalization of homosexuality at the time (yeah, it was actually illegal to be gay in Canada at the time), but that quote absolutely applies here. The government should not insert itself between the sheets.