As we all know, the Republican party prides itself on being all for small government. I'm calling bullshit. Why? Because they've made it perfectly clear this week that they want control over the uterus.
Presidential candidate Ron Paul said in an interview that "If it's an honest rape, that individual should go immediately to the emergency room, I would give them a shot of estrogen." Granted, this is more than I assume the other Republican candidates would "allow," but still. Honest rape?! I have no words. Lastly, for a doctor, he's pretty behind on his knowledge of contraception.
President Obama recently announced plans to ensure that birth control is covered with no co-pay by insurance plans. According to good old Mitt Romney, this is an assault on religion. The talking point of the right is that Catholic employers would have to pay for birth control when they are against it.I think Adam Lee of bigthink.com said it best: "This is the same thing as pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control pills: they interpret "religious freedom" not to mean, "I will not use birth control because my religion says it's not OK", but to mean, "I will not allow you to use birth control because my religion says it's not OK". They've twisted a person's individual right to abide by whatever beliefs they see fit into an aggressive demand to control the behavior of others."
The Diane Rehm show discussed this today. One of her panelists mentioned that IUDs have abortive-like qualities. I'm hearing that more and more lately. It's starting to make me feel like I'm in some reproductive dystopia where no contraception is allowed because it's ALL abortion!! I brought this up on a feminist LDS Facebook group I am in, and here is one of the comments I liked: "This kind of language is largely a "scare tactic" to exercise influence on women's health care choices. Especially since lots of other conditions can make the uterus less habitable for a fertilized egg looking to implant, like caffeine consumption. But nobody is running around telling ladies that their diet cokes have abortive-like qualities."
Between everything mentioned above, the Planned Parenthood funding issues, and the various "personhood" laws coming through state legislatures, I feel like the Republican party could use a new slogan: We're for small government, except when it comes to your uterus.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Saturday, February 4, 2012
It is so hard to see your baby sick. I can't imagine what toddlers think while they are throwing up. He looked so confused at what was happening and why he or I couldn't stop it. Later, when it was just dry heaves, it seemed to scare him. When he wasn't actually sick, he sure tried to be happy. He played with his cousins who had stopped by real quick. As he felt it coming on, he would come back to me with such a scared look on his face. Eventually, we fell asleep on the couch- him laying on my chest. Just the way we used to sleep when he was really a baby.
He woke up this morning happy as could be. A little warm, but no other signs of sickness. He played, colored, and took a bath with his Dad. I can still tell it took a lot out of him though, because he's asleep and it's only 11:30 a.m. I hope he wakes up feeling even better.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Must watch
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Grim Colberty Tales with Maurice Sendak Pt. 1 | ||||
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| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Grim Colberty Tales with Maurice Sendak Pt. 2 | ||||
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This is one of the best interviews I have EVER seen. I had no idea Sendak was such a grouchy old man, and gay at that.
Sendak- I didn't set out to make children happy or to make life better for them or easier for them.
Colbert- Do you like them?
S-I like them as few and far between as I do adults, maybe a bit more because I really don't like adults.
S-I'm a gay man.
C- I'm sorry, I must be mishearing you. You just said you're a gay man? Why are you allowed to write children's books? You're not allowed to head boy scout troops.
S on ebooks: $!$% them is what I say! I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future, they may well be, I will be dead and I won't give a $%!^.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Indecision 2012 - Pander Express | ||||
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Good clip overall, but I'm posting this for what happens at 3:40. I love him even more. Seriously- he's on my "list." Ryan Gosling and him have pretty much had the stop two spots for awhile now.
-Speaking of Ryan Gosling, Adam and I watched Drive last night. I can't get the trailer to embed, but here is the link. It was such a good movie. Suspenseful movie with an open ending. I don't always like open endings, but it works with this movie.
-I am reading John Green's new book The Fault in Our Stars. I mentioned his vlogs on YouTube to a friend and she had never seen them. Here's a funny one about honey badgers. Here's a somewhat more serious one about Kiva. His brother and him have also started doing crashcourse videos where they teach us stuff.
-I'll end with this one. Now, I'm crunchy in some ways (co-sleeping, extended breastfeeding, delayed vaccination schedule) but very mainstream in other ways.
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