The Bush administration has actually put an anti-birth control extremist in charge of Title X, America's family planning program.
I'm speechless.
A $283 million federal family planning budget is being placed into the hands of someone who long served as medical director of a group that insisted distributing contraceptive drugs and devices is "demeaning to women"?
To give a woman a choice to protect her body, her life, her future...is demeaning? Is that a joke?
The Keroack appointment is no joke. Putting someone who has crusaded against birth control in charge of Title X, America's family planning program, makes a mockery of women's health and reproductive freedom as a human right. I can almost hear the argument "it's family planning Kristen" -- ya well, it's also planning for a family that you have the resources, time, and most of love for when you want it and are able to embrace it.
It's a blatant attempt to drag America back in a partisan direction when, at the moment, we have an enormous opportunity to move forward. Bush has said he will use every moment of his presidency, and he's not kidding. He didn't learn from public opinion polls that the huge majority of Americans support the right to decide when and whether to have children. He hasn't learned from the last election, either.
Every year, Title X services help women and men prevent an estimated 1.3 million unintended pregnancies and provide essential reproductive health services to millions of women.
We can't just sit back and shake our heads about the Keroack appointment. I truly believe it should be our incentive to support the far-reaching efforts of other men and women who want to ensure women's access to health care and to stand up for women's rights. We should write our legislature and use our voice.
If you are interested, you could help Planned Parenthood in many different aspects. Or, you could contact your representitives... in Arizona, on a Federal level we have Bush, McCain, Flake, and Kyl (Click here to email them) and on a state level, there is Napolitano (email)<--- that link will also bring you to a place where you type in your 9 digit zip code for the representatives in your exact legistlative district.
Ok, stepping off the soapbox now.
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That is an excellent post! You put so much thought and time into it. I hope your message gets out! What a crock!
We have something similar going on in Montana. The conservative Republicans in the Montana House of Representatives have chosen to perform an all out assault on public education in our state.
Constitution Party Rep Rick Jore has been chosen to chair the House Education Committee. This will most certainly be a setback to education in Montana. I can only think of two motives for this conservative Republican appointment: 1)they are trying to court his vote on many other different issues, or 2) they agree with his ideology on education, which includes eliminating public schools. (He refers to them as government schools.)
He has been known to say that "I am ashamed to say that my oldest three went to government schools." Jore's five children are home schooled. He favors greatly decvreasing funding for "government schools" and abolishing property taxes , which fund all public schools K thru college.
To me this is sending a clear message; the republican party doesn't give a damn about the people it supposedly represents.
I am not surprised by what the Republicans are doing on a federal and state level, I am, however, revolted!
I am so sick of politicians right now - ALL of them, no matter what the flavor. GRRRR! You get 'em!
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