breaking news or something like that
Vitally important research: how to get drunk faster. Cocktails are expensive - make them count!
Crappy advertising: you can't escape it. (Unless, of course, you're not completely queer and you don't go to Stomp shows.)
He prefers it to birth control pills or condoms (the tools of Satan, don't you know) .
On a related note, this Washington Post article creeps me out. The new guidelines assume that every woman who becomes pregnant will be having the child AND that all women plan to or will someday become pregnant. This is a step backward about, oh, fifty years.
There are better ways to increase awareness and to prevent premature births and unhealthy pregnancies. Let's see, um, educate women about contraception and safe sex practices, and make contraception more widely available (including the "morning after pill") so that women who aren't living healthfully and wouldn't want to become pregnant WON'T BECOME PREGNANT. That seems a lot more logical to me than treating every woman as "pre-pregnant". Gimme a break.
Crappy advertising: you can't escape it. (Unless, of course, you're not completely queer and you don't go to Stomp shows.)
He prefers it to birth control pills or condoms (the tools of Satan, don't you know) .
On a related note, this Washington Post article creeps me out. The new guidelines assume that every woman who becomes pregnant will be having the child AND that all women plan to or will someday become pregnant. This is a step backward about, oh, fifty years.
There are better ways to increase awareness and to prevent premature births and unhealthy pregnancies. Let's see, um, educate women about contraception and safe sex practices, and make contraception more widely available (including the "morning after pill") so that women who aren't living healthfully and wouldn't want to become pregnant WON'T BECOME PREGNANT. That seems a lot more logical to me than treating every woman as "pre-pregnant". Gimme a break.
posted by lauren at 1:21 AM
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Ehhh...Education hasn't solve or made a dent in drug use, teen pregnancy, abortion, abuse, or a whole host of other problems. All it does is helps people understand better that what they're going to do anyway is bad for them. People don't change unless their heart change in my experience. Hearts aren't changed in pamphlets or text books.
http://timetolisten.blogspot.com/
A comment. I'm shocked.
I would never underestimate the power of education, but I would also never say it can solve problems.
To clarify, what's most important here, is that along with education, birth control is made more widely available. This includes making the "morning after pill" available in all pharmacies.
Also, the government cutting funding for things like Planned Parenthood clinics doesn't help. PP educates and provides important services to people who otherwise couldn't afford it.
And then there are the states enacting laws preventing teens from getting birth control and abortions by requiring parental consent. How many kids actually tell their parents about that stuff? That's right, instead, they engage in risky behavior and many unwanted pregnancies follow.
So again, I think there are other, more important things to work on here before we start treating all women as "pre-pregnant."
Why do I not click on links? Months later I am looking back over my blog entries, look at this guy's blog and see (isn't it obvious from the title?) that he's a flaming Republican. I can't believe I wasted my time responding.
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