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Juno from Juneau: A Video Report from the RNC Floor on Palin's Problem

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:49:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Christian Taliban.

Juno From Juneau: A Video Report From The RNC Floor On Palin's Problem

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The Republican National Committee's 2008 convention draft platform pledges to continue waging the right's war on sex education. The platform reads: "We support abstinence education and oppose school-based clinics that provide referrals, counseling, and related services for abortion and contraception."

Could Bristol Palin have benefited from the sex education and contraceptives the GOP seeks to deny to public school students?

In my latest video, "Juno From Juneau," I probe the GOP reaction to this question on the floor of the Republican National Convention.

members of the Alaska delegation were forthright about their enthusiasm for faith-based abstinence-only programs and restricting abortion even in cases of rape and incest.

One delegate

told me

that her three daughters are only allowed to go on dates with their father, who lectures them on chastity and makes them wear "purity rings"

Tags: rnc, palin, abortion, contraception, sex ed, abstinence-only

"Pro-Lifers" Plan National Protest of Contraception

Thu, 08 May 2008 07:13:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

And before you despair that your right to privacy is being lost, take comfort in the knowledge that once we all finally live in a country where ideology is valued over evidence and our government is run by and for those who subscribe, or succumb, to the exciting agenda of these groups...privacy will no longer be needed. Your point of view and way of life will, conveniently, be decided for you. So what are you waiting for?! Sign up now!

Clip Source: www.rhrealitycheck.org

'Pro-Lifers' Plan National Protest of Contraception

Tired of the same-old lame protests outside of abortion clinics? Looking to impose your religious beliefs in other people's lives in a new and exciting way? The pro-life movement would like to expand your horizons.

On June 7th, the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that gave married people the right to use contraception, the American Life League, along with Pro-Life Wisconsin and Pharmacists for Life International Associate groups want you to join them in protesting in front of facilities that distribute birth control products. The national day against contraception, Protest the Pill Day '08: The Pill Kills Babies, was started to convince the American people of a simple and imaginative idea: attempting to prevent abortion is abortion too.

Tags: women, contraception, abortion, privacy

Abortions Soar Where Religious Zeal Abounds

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:44:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If someone is truly opposed to abortion, they should favor comprehensive sex ed and access to contraception.

Clip Source: www.chris-floyd.com

God's Own Baby-Killers: Abortions Soar Where Religious Zeal Abounds

As Monbiot notes, this stems directly from one of the primary aims of organized religion: the control of women, especially their fertility. The zealous pursuit of this goal leads to rejection of contraception and sex education, which in turn gives rise to more unwanted pregnancies -- hence more abortions. In fact, studies show that the country with perhaps the most "liberal" and "permissive" sexual policies -- the Netherlands-- has the lowest rate of abortion in the world.

A study published in the Lancet shows that between 1995 and 2003, the global rate of induced abortions fell from 35 per 1,000 women each year to 29. This period coincides with the rise of the "globalised secular culture" the Pope laments. When the figures are broken down, it becomes clear that, apart from the former Soviet Union, abortion is highest in conservative and religious societies.

Tags: abortion, religion

U.S. Conservative Christians to Europe: Have More (White) Babies!

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:34:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Christian Right's Demographic Nightmare: Muslims are "Out-Breeding" Us

Conservatives predict a catastrophe as white birthrates in the "West" fall. Their solution? Take away women's rights and compel reproduction.

How so? Europe is failing to produce enough babies -- the right babies -- to replace its old and dying. It's "the baby bust," "the birth dearth," "the graying of the continent": Modern euphemisms for old-fashioned race panic as low fertility among white "Western" couples coincides with an increasingly visible immigrant population across Europe. The real root of racial tensions in the Netherlands and France, America's culture warriors tell anxious Europeans, isn't ineffective methods of assimilating new citizens but, rather, decades of "anti-family" permissiveness -- contraception, abortion, divorce, population control, women's liberation and careers, "selfish" secularism and gay rights -- enabling "decadent" white couples to neglect their reproductive duties.

Tags: europe, demographics, secularism, abortion, gay rights, christian right

An Anti-Birth Control Dystopia

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:02:33 GMT

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Clip Source: uk.reuters.com

Manila women want law on family planning revoked

MANILA (Reuters) - Women from three slum communities in Manila asked the appeals court on Wednesday to allow them access to contraceptives in public clinics, revoking a local law that bans condoms and pills.

In 2000, the capital's mayor issued an order stopping doctors, nurses and other health workers from promoting and distributing contraceptives, instructing them to teach only the natural method of family planning.

"We want to decide for ourselves how many children we would have, and not the government to tell us how to do it," Lourdes Osil, a mother of six, told reporters after her lawyers asked the court to declare the seven-year-old local law unconstitutional.

Tags: contraception, manilla, law

Bush's Trillion Dollar Budget Cuts Title X

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:56:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The compassionate conservative strikes again.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Planned Parenthood on Bush's budget

Planned Parenthood criticizes the budget for "proposing devastating cuts to funding for Medicaid family planning, which provides access to contraception and other family planning services to low-income women; failing to appropriately fund Title X, America's family planning program; and increasing funding for ineffective abstinence-only programs." That is to say, the proposed budget would cut Medicaid funding for family planning by $570 million in FY 2009 and by $3.3 billion over the next five years, would "flat fund" America's family planning program, Title X (Planned Parenthood claims that it's already "drastically underfunded"), and yet increase funding for community-based abstinence education by $27.7 million -- which Planned Parenthood calculates to be a 24 percent increase.

Tags: 2008budget, titlex, abstinence-only