Dear Legislators Hell-bent on Defunding Any Programs Dealing with Lady Bits:
The tweet above is funny (albeit hyperbolic). The executive order it deals with is not so funny.
Listen, no federal money supports abortions. That’s the deal already. What federal money supports is family planning and reproductive health. Can’t we agree that’s a good thing? More education, planning and birth control REDUCES the number of abortions. Isn’t that the goal? (Note that the Guttmacher Institute just released a report that U.S. abortion rates dropped to a record low, falling below the 1973 level — the year Roe vs. Wade made abortion legal.)
If you defund all these programs, what are people going to do? If you state that life begins at fertilization and make abortion illegal, that is not going to stop abortions from happening (see prohibition, the “war on drugs“).
Why is this a women’s issue? Who is making people pregnant?
Yeah, that’s right.
But the burden is on the woman whether it is consensual or not (for birth control too). And the embryo seems to be more important than the woman herself. Why is that? If the woman has the child and struggles financially because the man is nowhere to be found, then she is a “freeloader.”
That’s just great.
There’s also the fact that there are about 540,000 children in foster care or waiting to be adopted, according to the Administration for Children and Families.
Want to ban abortions and birth control? Go ahead and ban sex.
You go first.
Constituently yours,
Beth
Observe and report 
I think the goal is less reducing the number of abortions and more imposing morality*, but it’s been said that I’m cynical.
*You’d think these pro-life fellows would be open to non-pregnancy-causing LGBT couples, but darned if these same people don’t get really excited about anti-sodomy and “religious right” bills that legalize being a dick to people whose sex life grosses you out. I’m straying a bit from the topic and making some generalizations, but damn am I tired of the constant scrutiny of the contents of my underwear.
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I wish I had the luxury of time to worry about what other people are doing. I barely can keep myself together.
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