Emergency Contraception on the table in Colorado
Teenage girls pray for the patriarchy
Colorado is a state full of majestic mountains, glorious vistas, and raving lunatics. Godbag lunatics, to be specific.
Rep. Betty Boyd, Democrat, is on her fourth try to get emergency contraception readily available to the women of her state. Unlike certain female Democrats who have recently been excoriated on this blog, Rep. Boyd is actually working on behalf of women instead of their oppressors. What a concept!
It’s an uphill battle, seeing as how Colorado is the kind of place where godbag teenage girls attend hearings on emergency contraception in order to pray for the patriarchy (as if it needed any help) and to testify against women having actual control over their reproductive health. It’s the kind of place where a male godbag legislator can sneer, “Call me Nostradamus, but I don’t see this bill becoming law.” It’s the kind of place where similar legislation has already been defeated 3 times, partly on the advice of godbag-owned hospitals.
So, if you’re in Colorado — or even if you’re not — send Rep. Betty Boyd some love. Go to her website and find out what you can do to help.
Thanks to Jeff for the alert.
20 Responses to “Emergency Contraception on the table in Colorado”
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will says:
If you dont have sex outside the marriage, you don’t need emergency contraception.
It never ceases to amaze me how the outlandish has become the normal.
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Violet says:
Will, that reminds me — why are you maybe going to be at the Supremes for the Nebraska case?
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will says:
email me wilsontuck2001@yahoo.com
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Violet says:
I should have asked that in the abortion thread, but I just now remembered it.
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manxome says:
People like this Angie are such a thorn in the side. So, she was raped 20 years ago, but she didn’t get pregnant. What does that have to do with EC? Nothing. Zip. Nada. Squat. What she coulda woulda shoulda done means nothing, nada, squat, and zip.
She values life sooooo much that she would have done nothing to prevent fertilization/implantation (”destroying life”) in her situation, she thinks possibly maybe. Yay for her, give her a parade. You know, if you want no part of it, don’t do it, Angie! That’s called choice!
Why, then, does she insist that the rest of the planet have a part in allowing some rapist shit to fuck up the rest of my or anyone else’s life because she doesn’t want me stopping the dickwad’s sperm from finding an egg to fertilize and implant? She seems to want a part in that! Being raped isn’t enough, dear, lets add to your disempowerment my not even letting you stop a pregnancy from happening. Why? Is it because then I’d be forced to get an abortion, where you can more easily spot me and call me a slut? Is that it?
Why, I honestly think it is.
Oh, and Colorado Springs is one scary fucked-up place.
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Violet says:
Manx, two words: Stockholm Syndrome.
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Michael Bains says:
This post is a nice tit for that SDer’s tat, Doc Socks.
Good for Betty and people like her everywhere. We need more of ‘em in our Legislatures.
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JimDeeny says:
Ole’ Betty, I’ll bet she’s from the “old school”.
Not many of them around anymore. Walking to school 4 miles everyday in the snow “uphill” doesnt happen anymore. There’s few that really appreciate anything anymore and most take the simple things for granted. I like her already. :) -
Jeff says:
manxome,
You’re absolutely right. This Angie is a real piece of work. Is she saying that if she knew that she knew for sure that she wasn’t going to end up pregnant, she wouldn’t have reported her rape, or is she saying that maybe it wasn’t really raped after all, because she didn’t get pregnant? It boggles the mind. It really takes some convoluted thinking to come around to the point of view that if a woman is convinced that she will not become pregnant as a result of rape that she will then look at it as “No harm, no foul”, and decline to report it. Not only is it an insult to society in general, it is a completely revolting, make that utterly disgusting, idea.
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Violet says:
The simple answer is that Angie is insane. I would have mentioned her in my post but the weight of her lunacy would have completely capsized the paragraph.
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JimDeeny says:
Phew! Life rafts are few and far between.
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manxome says:
“the weight of her lunacy would have completely capsized the paragraph”
Wonderful turn of phrase, VS. Sorry if the boat-rocking made anyone seasick.
I still think the whole anti-EC thing is largely driven by a fear that they won’t know who is blocking the way of sperm’s destiny as much, and therefore can’t as easily focus on women to feel superior to in front of abortion clinics or in back alleys.
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belledame222 says:
Great photo there.
And no, of course you don’t need emergency contraception: besides the plain fact that no one should be fornicatin’ outside God-ordained het marriage, there is *no valid reason* for a married woman and/or couple to not want to have a kid. Well, *maybe* if it’s actually going to kill her, on account of if she’s dead she won’t be able to breed anymore, and anyway we Value Life in the sense of breathing and beating hearts, even if we don’t much care for people who actually act like they’re alive, as opposed to Stepford drones.
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Txfeminist says:
Angie’s remarks are amazingly ignorant, stupid, judgmental and…. irritatingly self-righteous.
They are almost as priceless as the “I regret my abortion” signs.
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kactus says:
Well, I think this woman is a donkey’s ass also, but I’d like to stick up a little bit for those teenagers. I mean, teenagers get stupid notions of right and wrong all the time. Give ‘em a little life experience and we’ll see what their opinions are.
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Alon Levy says:
Well, I think this woman is a donkey’s ass also, but I’d like to stick up a little bit for those teenagers. I mean, teenagers get stupid notions of right and wrong all the time. Give ‘em a little life experience and we’ll see what their opinions are.
Yeah, all these youngsters believe in those stupid ideas, like gay marriage, opposition to the war on Iraq, racial equality… give them life experience and they’ll all turn into seasoned patriots, complete with homophobia, jingoism, and xenophobia.
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kactus says:
Yeah, all these youngsters believe in those stupid ideas, like gay marriage, opposition to the war on Iraq, racial equality… give them life experience and they’ll all turn into seasoned patriots, complete with homophobia, jingoism, and xenophobia.
Oh come on now, that’s not what I was saying at all. Lord. Fact is that teenagers are often trying to come to terms with what they really believe in, are often extremely easy to influence, and in later years they change their minds once they realize the world isn’t such a black and white place. Kind of like my statement above.
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Alon Levy says:
Oh, I’m not saying they don’t; I’m only saying that the view that opinions of people under 18, or 25, or 30, are worthless is as discriminatory as the view that women’s opinions are worthless (19th century aristocrats were full of theories about how women’s opinions shouldn’t really count because they were less smart/easily influenced by consumerism/too capricious/penisless).
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Violet says:
Kactus wasn’t saying that the views of those under the age of 18 are worthless; merely that most teenagers are still partially formed entities — intellectual pillows, if you will. We cut them slack because they’re kids and they’re still learning.
For the record, my original intention wasn’t to compare these particular girls to the idiot adults in the story, but just to highlight that Colorado is the kind of place where godbaggery is so pernicious that praying for the patriarchy is an afterschool activity.
There’s a similar situation in the Deep South where my extended family lives, and I cringe at the sight of my beautiful young cousins being taught that women are inferior and that non-Christians are going to roast in hell forever. Because they are so young I don’t fault them for these delusional beliefs, but rather the adults who have filled their heads with lies.
Of course, pretty soon my cousins will be adults themselves, and what do I do at that point? They will be adults, but they’ll be uneducated adults whose minds were deformed in youth — just like their parents and teachers are now. Ignorance is self-perpetuating. Nevertheless, at some point we do start holding people accountable for their beliefs.
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belledame222 says:
I think it’s at the point where they’re not dependent on their possibly insane families for survival.
