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Defining Contraception as Abortion

by BooMan
Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 01:26:17 PM EST

Christina Page writes in the Baltimore Sun about how Republican candidates for president are taking it to the next level in woman-hating sweet goodness.

At National Right to Life's conference this year, Mitt Romney set out to convince anti-abortion leaders he was their candidate. At the podium, he rattled off his qualifications. To a layman's ears, it sounded pretty standard for abortion politics. He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. He supports teaching only abstinence to teens.
But for those trained to hear the subtleties, Mr. Romney was acknowledging something more. He implied an opposition to the birth control pill and a willingness to join in their efforts to scale back access to contraception. There are code phrases to listen for - and for those keeping score, Mr. Romney nailed each one.
One code phrase is: "I fought to define life as beginning at conception rather than at the time of implantation." The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists defines pregnancy as starting at implantation, the first moment a pregnancy can be known. Anti-abortion advocates want pregnancy to start at the unknown moment sperm and egg meet: fertilization. They'd also like you to believe, despite evidence to the contrary, that the birth control pill prevents that fertilized egg from implanting in the womb.
Mr. Romney's code, deciphered, meant, "I, like you, hope to reclassify the most commonly used forms of contraceptives as abortions." In fact, he told the crowd, he already had some practice redefining contraception: "I vetoed a so-called emergency contraception bill that gave young girls abortive drugs without prescription or parental consent."

People that think like Mitt Romney should be put in a burlap sack and hit with hammers. Except, Mitt Romney was pro-choice until he decided to run for wingnut-in-chief. So he doesn't even have any principles. What is the right punishment for that?

Defining Contraception as Abortion | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Defining Contraception as Abortion (none / 0)

Spoken like a man who has no daughters. I wonder if any of his robotically handsome sons has ever caused an inconvenient pregnancy?

by Second Nature (denn1214 at gmail) on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 01:52:12 PM EST

Re: Defining Contraception as Abortion (none / 0)

Well, since they don't use contraception.

by BooMan on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 01:54:31 PM EST
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Re: Defining Contraception as Abortion (none / 0)

That is, they SAY they don't use contraception...

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 08:23:19 PM EST
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Re: Defining Contraception as Abortion (none / 0)

No kidding, if they weren't using some kind of contraception all wingnut families would literally have a dozen kids or more and probably many of the women(from the poor households without medical access) would be dead from repeated pregnancies.

Maybe someone ought to ask old Mitt if him and his wife, unless she's past menopause, are expecting to get pregnant any day now or are they practicing abstinence so they don't have any more kids? Or if he also believes that the only reason to have sex is to procreate then are we too assume that maybe him and his wife no longer have sex?

If those questions sound stupid Mitt, well when you start saying stupid crap like this you should expect some follow up questions.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 10:05:06 PM EST
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His punishment should be that his net worth which is supposed to be about 250 million dollars is taken from him and used to take care of as many young women who get pregnant who have no money or resources and support them. Make the concept of not using birth control pills real to him.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 04:24:43 PM EST

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I could get on board with that. Can we do something similar to the rest of the stealth anti-contraception crowd?

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."

by CabinGirl on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 05:40:55 PM EST
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Re: Defining Contraception as Abortion (none / 0)

Wish we could. Any idiot who espouses the notion that birth control is somehow the same as abortion should have to adopt several babies although I really wouldn't wish some poor baby on any wingnut household for the baby's sake.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 05:48:39 PM EST
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Crack babies N/T (none / 0)

"I never trust people who don't laugh." Maya Angelou, March 5, 2009

by Indianadem on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 08:33:52 PM EST
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Re: Defining Contraception as Abortion (none / 0)

Soon they'll be saying life starts at dinner and a movie.

by mikefromtexas on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 07:59:47 PM EST

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Ha!...don't give them any ideas and we certainly can never overestimate the stupidity of their 'logic'.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 08:11:08 PM EST
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I'm saying! Shhhhhhhhhh!!!! Virginia already tried some extreme lunacy with the Have miscarriage, go to jail bill from 2 years ago. Don't give these fools any ideas!!

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 08:36:25 PM EST
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Re: Defining Contraception as Abortion (none / 0)

I was thinking of that while reading this diary and couldn't remember the state so thanks AP. I also remember thinking that this was pretty bizarro even for the wingnut crowd.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 at 09:39:55 PM EST
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I thought the same thing. Even some wingnut men criticized that nutcase. OK, so that really surprised me. But in general, we can't be surprised that someone would try that, given their rhetoric.

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Fri Aug 24th, 2007 at 03:49:14 PM EST
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Re: Defining Contraception as Abortion (none / 0)

Sack and Hammers is fine. Ship the sack to Sadr City in Baghdad when done....

by bmaz on Fri Aug 24th, 2007 at 01:21:59 AM EST

Same old dribble (none / 0)

Back in the 70's, this nice lady from Catholic Charities came to talk to our high school class. She told us how great Billings (don't you dare call it rhythm) is. She then told us that every other method of birth control is abortion because they prevent implantation. There was a lengthy and forced explanation about how birth control pills and diaphragms prevent implementation. Somehow, she managed to forget about the existence of condoms.

Land of the watched, because of the cowed.

by hens teeth on Fri Aug 24th, 2007 at 02:09:02 AM EST

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