God Damnit. Now I'm angry.

Has anyone else noticed it's a bunch of stupid fucking men trying to make laws that affect women! There should be a law against that. Mother fucking republicans. I wish they were aborted.

Well, we just gotta take action. We can't just sit and watch how they take our rights away. Go to the web site at the bottom of the article and click on the "2 minute activist" and be one more to send the imperative messages regarding our health. I feel like starting my own campaign!!

I feel like starting my own campaign, too! Free axes for people who want to beat up republicans campaign.

Shhhhhhh, Jesus Lindsay! Don't you know the Feds are watching?

Seriously, this sucks. Leave my uterus alone, people!

This girl I know is anti-birth control because she's catholic. Except when she lived with her boyfriend BEFORE they were married, they used condoms and the pill. And she expects me to believe natural family planning is just as effective?

It makes my brain want to explode. How come she gets to make her choice and then take away mine?

yes why the hell do old white men get to decide what happens to the bodies of women, it should be between her and her doctor!

and natural family planning (aka the rhythm method) doesn't work. my sister is a result of it, my parents were 32 and 34 and wanted more children after me (just not so close in age), so it wasn't a big deal

use a condom and the pill!!!

Oh didn't you hear? The Pill doesn't work. What now, bitches?!

Time to sew up my uterus, that's what. I don't want to raise children in a world where their lives are no longer their own.

Well... it was a joke... but.

Well natural family planning using Fertility Awareness Method is NOT the rhythm method, and it is pretty effective for those who use it.

Anyway, yeah my parents are Republican and I hope to god they don't vote Romney.

What about Retroactive abortions for these anti-choice candidates. What do you say, uterus-owners??

What made me pause when reading this article is the thought that: Wait, Bush himself only has two kids, and they're twins.

So either he hasn't been getting any for the past twenty-four years or so and is pissed at the people who are doing so aided by birth control--or he's a stinking hypocrite. Wonder which one?

Romney tied his dog to the roof of his car and drove for 12 hours. Thus, I respect NOTHING he ever says.

Of all the political issues that piss me off, this is at the top. How is that the same people who want to "balance the budget" and cut funding to S-CHIP and who talk about reducing abortions want to ban birth control? How many practicing Catholics and "Christians" (seriously...) use birth control? Plenty.

Hypocritical, misogynistic (and I'd add, child-hating) knuckle-dragging scum bag lunatics. "Hate" is a strong word, but if any issue honest-to-God makes me think of that word and certain groups of voting Americans, its all this stupid bullsh*t--pharmacists refusing to fill women's prescriptions for birth control (mind you're own f*cking business, pervert...would you rather I got knocked up? You're a real humanitarian, "unplanned" children automatically have bright futures ahead of them!); hospitals (public ones) refusing to give RAPE VICTIMS emergency contraception....ugh.

Thank God I live in a blue state.

Sorry for the rant.

Of all the political issues that piss me off, this is at the top. How is that the same people who want to "balance the budget" and cut funding to S-CHIP and who talk about reducing abortions want to ban birth control? How many practicing Catholics and "Christians" (seriously...) use birth control? Plenty.

Hypocritical, misogynistic (and I'd add, child-hating) knuckle-dragging scum bag lunatics. "Hate" is a strong word, but if any issue honest-to-God makes me think of that word and certain groups of voting Americans, its all this stupid bullsh*t--pharmacists refusing to fill women's prescriptions for birth control (mind you're own f*cking business, pervert...would you rather I got knocked up? You're a real humanitarian, "unplanned" children automatically have bright futures ahead of them!); hospitals (public ones) refusing to give RAPE VICTIMS emergency contraception....ugh.

Thank God I live in a blue state.

Sorry for the rant.

Of all the political issues that piss me off, this is at the top. How is that the same people who want to "balance the budget" and cut funding to S-CHIP and who talk about reducing abortions want to ban birth control? How many practicing Catholics and "Christians" (seriously...) use birth control? Plenty.

Hypocritical, misogynistic (and I'd add, child-hating) knuckle-dragging scum bag lunatics. "Hate" is a strong word, but if any issue honest-to-God makes me think of that word and certain groups of voting Americans, its all this stupid bullsh*t--pharmacists refusing to fill women's prescriptions for birth control (mind you're own f*cking business, pervert...would you rather I got knocked up? You're a real humanitarian, "unplanned" children automatically have bright futures ahead of them!); hospitals (public ones) refusing to give RAPE VICTIMS emergency contraception....ugh.

Thank God I live in a blue state.

Sorry for the rant.

F*ck and sorry for the triple post...stupid computer.

Honestly, these control freaks and their sexual repression. Can't they just work out these feelings with BDSM, like normal people? ;)

What makes people think they get a vote in the sex lives of other people? It's not like I set up a polling booth outside their house "Should Joe and Jo Asshole be allowed to have sex the way they want?" So why should they get a vote in someone else's bedroom?

I'm sorry, Joe, but the only way you get a vote in Jane and Jerry's sex life is if you're their third. If you're not, you keep your nose out of it.

It bothers me that people can have such sexual issues, but it bothers me more that they think their own opinions should matter when it comes to two (or more) consenting adults.

To paraphrase my man Savage, "if heterosexual, procreative sex within monogamous marriage makes you happy, fine, do it. But gay sex within mostly monogamy with occassional threesomes makes me happy. I'll do that instead."

According to www.americanpregnancy.org, fertility awareness when used perfectly (about 90% effective) is still less effective than the way the pill is used on average (93-97% effective). Average use for fertility awareness is 75% effective. It's better than the regular rhythm method, I'm sure, but I wouldn't count on it.

Tell me if that site is untrustworthy, I just found it on google and it seemed ok to me (except that it says abstinence is 100% effective without giving an average use percentage, which I'm going to write them about).

xxhelenaxx your rant was amazing and sooo on key. You rock!

Mm-kay...all I'm gonna say is this...MITT ROMNEY IS AN ASSHOLE. Quite frankly, in my oh-so-humble opinion, if you don't have a uterus, then you DON'T GET AN OPINION. The last time I checked, I wasn't allowed to go around telling older men who don't really need Viagra (I know some do, but many use it recreationally) that they're perverted or immature or immoral for wanting to get it on. Why the HELL is it okay for men to tell me what I can do with MY body? Normally I try to be rational & intellectual when I post here, but in this case, f*ck that.

The ultimate irony in all this is, of course, that birth control was originally intended for use by MARRIED WOMEN who didn't want any more children. Some were dying or unhealthy because of multiple pregnancies...others just couldn't take the thought of yet another kid...I'm not saying single women shouldn't use birth control, I'm all for that, but people seem to forget that without birth control, we'd go back to the days when the average woman had a billion children, even if and ESPECIALLY if she lived up perfectly to the definition of a "good Christian wife"...after all, aren't they supposed to not deny sex to their husbands, not use birth control, and basically pop out a billion kids? There's a reason most people don't do this. If birth control is available, it should be used by people who want to use it. I don't even USE hormonal birth control and this stuff pisses me off!

Done ranting now :)

right on raginfem...i have LONG lived by the 'no uterus no opinion' mantra...and have stated so here on more than one occasion...

this shit pisses me off...the part that pisses me off the most? we don't go around forcing people to take bc or ec or get abortions...but these fucking anti-choicers want to force us to give it up! it seems so simple to me that by allowing us a choice everyone wins! they can still choose not to use the pill, not to abort (i did! but oh i forgot that pro-choice obviously means pro-abortions...or are moms not allowed to be pro-choice? i can't keep it straight...) and they can allow the rest of us to keep our choices...
if my pre-schooler soon to be kindergartener can understand 'my body my business' then perhaps someday these anti-choice force their beliefs down my throat lawmakers and politicians can see the simplicity in it...
but that would be giving them too much credit...
and sorry this is just a rant...and not well thought out...but grr...

UneFemmePlusCourageuse upthread: I don't like the president either, but I remember reading that he and Laura had had trouble spawning and were on a waitlist to adopt when the twins were conceived. So, he might be none of the above: just infertile.

Ouyangdan--
Yes. Awesome rant, and have to say I agree with it. Personally, I am VERY pro-choice, but if I were to get pregnant, in my current situation, I'd have the baby. But if I were poorer, if my relationship were less stable, if I thought having a baby would be seriously damaging to my health--then yes, I would consider abortion.
It all depends on the woman's individual situation, in my mind, and people not in her situation should not get to make her decisions for her.

Unree--
Yeah, that was probably a pretty insensitive thing for me to say, not knowing the Bushes personally. Thanks for cluing me in.