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McCain: The Anti-Choice Zealot

August 13th 2008 14:33
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The New Republic has a great article up regarding McCain and his anti-choice views. His reputation as a moderate slowly slips away as more and more people learn about his real views. Such as his opposition to Roe v. Wade and his desire to fill the Supreme Court with ultra-conservatives. Out of his 130 votes on reproductive heath, McCain voted anti-choice on 125 of them, which includes the global gag rule that prevented funds to international family-planning clinics.


The opening of the article shows a glimpse of the real McCain.

John McCain was mad. Fuming mad. It was then the early days of his political career, and he had paid an unscheduled visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Mesa, which was within his Arizona congressional district. That's when Gloria Feldt, then the CEO of the group's local chapter, got a phone call. "Congressman McCain is here," a staffer told her, "and he is screaming and it is upsetting the patients."

Feldt says McCain had always refused her offers to visit a clinic, but had apparently decided to make a spot visit of his own. What had raised his ire was a shelf containing information about Title X federal funding, which some clinics receive to support non-abortion-related reproductive health care for low-income women. McCain was upset that the clinic provided paper for people to write their representatives in support of the legislation, which requires constant advocacy because Congress must reauthorize it every year. "His immediate and incorrect assumption," says Feldt, "was that we were using federal funds to pay for lobbying." Feldt got on the phone. "He was screaming, 'I am going to defund her, I am going to get the federal government to defund you.'... [H]e rants and he raves and finally he hangs up on me."


McCain has played an image of someone who never really thought about contraception and abortion for the media. As the article points out he's done his share of "You've stumped me" and "I never really thought about it" to give voters the idea that he is not as anti-choice as his voting record shows. But he has thought about it, often. The only thing he is stumped on is how to phrase his anti-choice views in a way not to turn off the key moderate votes he is counting on.
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Sex, Sluts, and Cosmopolitan

July 21st 2008 17:01
As a mom of sons there are such some things that I hope to make my sons understand in their lifetime. Certain issues that I hope to have ingrained in them. Things such as "No means no" and "Ask before touching", little nuggets of wisdom that both help them now when fighting over shared toys and will certainly help them later as grown men. Another helpful lesson is not to call women sluts based on something as frivolous as what they choose to read. Mona Charen, syndicated columnists and author, disagrees with my parenting ideals. In an interesting tidbit of daily life Charen let us in on how the right-wing talking heads prefer to raise their sons.

Funny you should mention that. I was in the supermarket yesterday with my 14-year-old son who asked "What's up with Cosmopolitan? What is that?" I replied, "It's a magazine for sluts."

Cosmopolitan
Now, I'm certainly not a fan of Cosmo myself. But I doubt that the entire readership of Cosmo are all sluts. Perhaps she feels that way because of all the "How to make your man scream your name articles". I assume she's of the type that any woman who has sex and isn't laying there, crunching her eyes shut, and praying that it will be over soon is a slut. Damn those dirty women and their ideas that sex could be fun and enjoyable! Unfortunately Charen took on the wrong magazine, as most of the sex related articles are about how to make the assumed male in the act happy. I would wager that it's the women who dare have sex to make themselves happy rather than being all about pleasing their man who are the real sluts in her mind.

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Imagine this teen in ten years, when he will be a 24 year old man out on the streets. What kind of man will he be? it would make me shudder if I was not already aware that the streets are full of guys who think there is nothing wrong with treating women like garbage for having the audacity to have sex. She doesn't even to have sex to be slut, just read the wrong magazine. And of course the girls labeled as sluts can be openly treated as dirt. Rape cases get tossed out because the women ever once choose to have sex. You can be harassed and assaulted and no one cares because you're a slut. Already treated like less than human, with the added stigma of "slut" a woman becomes fair game to anything that any person wants to do.

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