Damn you, Republicans!
This excerpt was taken from the March 21st, 2006 issue of “Savage Love” by Dan Savage.
Straight Rights Update: Earlier this month, Republicans in South Dakota successfully banned abortion in that state. Last week, the GOP-controlled state house of representatives in Missouri voted to ban state-funded family-planning clinics from dispensing birth control. "If you hand out contraception to single women," one Republican state rep told the Kansas City Star, "we're saying promiscuity is okay." On the federal level, Republicans are blocking the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception and keeping a 100 percent effective HPV vaccine—a vaccine that will save the lives of thousands of women every year—from being made available.
The GOP's message to straight Americans: If you have sex, we want it to fuck up your lives as much as possible. No birth control, no emergency contraception, no abortion services, no life-saving vaccines. If you get pregnant, tough shit. You're going to have those babies, ladies, and you're going to make those child-support payments, gentlemen. And if you get HPV and it leads to cervical cancer, well, that's too bad. Have a nice funeral, slut.
What's it going to take to get a straight-rights movement off the ground? The GOP in Kansas is seeking to criminalize hetero heavy petting, for God's sake! Wake up and smell the freaking Holy War, breeders! The religious right hates heterosexuality just as much as it hates homosexuality. Fight back!
They’re banning hetero heavy petting? But…but that’s my favorite kind!
Seriously though, the next Republican I find is getting a Danulai-administered kick in the nuts for this bullshit. I know that Dan Savage probably isn’t the best-respected man in the world, so I found a few other sources to back up his opinions.
And he’s right.
Look, I’m not crazy about the idea of kids having sex. I’d love it if abstinence education or removing contraceptives worked. They don’t. Republicans can feel all sanctimonious about their contraceptive bans and no-sex-ed policies and think they’ve done the right thing, but then it falls to us liberals working in public education and public health to deal with the aftermath…women – girls, a lot of times – getting pregnant, having babies, raising them in poverty, and renewing the cycle.
And as far as that HPV vaccine goes…I can’t even begin to express my anger about that. As someone who was once put at risk for contracting HPV through no fault of her own, and as someone who has lost family members due to cancer, I can’t describe how stupid, how foolish, how utterly, utterly cruel this is.
If we elect another Republican president in 2008, I’ll seriously consider moving to Canada.
Straight Rights Update: Earlier this month, Republicans in South Dakota successfully banned abortion in that state. Last week, the GOP-controlled state house of representatives in Missouri voted to ban state-funded family-planning clinics from dispensing birth control. "If you hand out contraception to single women," one Republican state rep told the Kansas City Star, "we're saying promiscuity is okay." On the federal level, Republicans are blocking the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception and keeping a 100 percent effective HPV vaccine—a vaccine that will save the lives of thousands of women every year—from being made available.
The GOP's message to straight Americans: If you have sex, we want it to fuck up your lives as much as possible. No birth control, no emergency contraception, no abortion services, no life-saving vaccines. If you get pregnant, tough shit. You're going to have those babies, ladies, and you're going to make those child-support payments, gentlemen. And if you get HPV and it leads to cervical cancer, well, that's too bad. Have a nice funeral, slut.
What's it going to take to get a straight-rights movement off the ground? The GOP in Kansas is seeking to criminalize hetero heavy petting, for God's sake! Wake up and smell the freaking Holy War, breeders! The religious right hates heterosexuality just as much as it hates homosexuality. Fight back!
They’re banning hetero heavy petting? But…but that’s my favorite kind!
Seriously though, the next Republican I find is getting a Danulai-administered kick in the nuts for this bullshit. I know that Dan Savage probably isn’t the best-respected man in the world, so I found a few other sources to back up his opinions.
And he’s right.
Look, I’m not crazy about the idea of kids having sex. I’d love it if abstinence education or removing contraceptives worked. They don’t. Republicans can feel all sanctimonious about their contraceptive bans and no-sex-ed policies and think they’ve done the right thing, but then it falls to us liberals working in public education and public health to deal with the aftermath…women – girls, a lot of times – getting pregnant, having babies, raising them in poverty, and renewing the cycle.
And as far as that HPV vaccine goes…I can’t even begin to express my anger about that. As someone who was once put at risk for contracting HPV through no fault of her own, and as someone who has lost family members due to cancer, I can’t describe how stupid, how foolish, how utterly, utterly cruel this is.
If we elect another Republican president in 2008, I’ll seriously consider moving to Canada.
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hey, if you do, come here. :) we'll go for coffee or something :)
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