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You are here: Home / Civil Rights / Women's Rights / The War On Women / A Holocaust Delivered In A Daily Pill

A Holocaust Delivered In A Daily Pill

by $8 blue check mistermix|  August 1, 20125:33 pm| 69 Comments

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Despite all the fussing and fighting, today is the day that contraception coverage is now mandated for all insurers. Proving that the last wail of pain is often the loudest, there’s this:

“I know in your mind you can think of the times America was attacked,” said Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), a freshman.
“One is December 7 — that is Pearl Harbor Day. Another was September 11 — that was the day of the terrorist attack.
“I want you to remember August 1, 2012 — the attack on our religious freedom. That is a date that will live in infamy, along with those other dates.”

Unfortunately, morons like this guy are making good organizations like the Guttmacher Institute spend money on quality, accurate, videos explaining just how vitally important contraception is to the general health of our population, not to mention how contraception keeps women from having abortions:

I cannot fucking believe that this video has to be made, but there you have it. It’s 2012 and we have to explain that something used by virtually every woman is a good thing.

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  1. 1.

    Tonal Crow

    August 1, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    Republicans will compare these benefits to Hitler in 5…4…3….

    —
    Tag: Romney’s worse than Sarah Palin.

  2. 2.

    Patricia Kayden

    August 1, 2012 at 5:37 pm

    Let the Repubs rage on. They sound more stupid than ever.

  3. 3.

    Ash Can

    August 1, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    I recall seeing a photograph a few months ago of a middle-aged woman (like me) at some rally holding up a sign that said, “I can’t believe we’re still debating this issue.” Says it all, AFAIC.

  4. 4.

    Ash Can

    August 1, 2012 at 5:41 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: Plus they call all kinds of attention to the benefits that went into effect today. Bring it on.

  5. 5.

    kindness

    August 1, 2012 at 5:43 pm

    What I’m having a hard time understanding is how the fundies have made the claim that contraception is just as bad as abortion and should be treated as equally iky.

    Where TF has this come from? I don’t even recognise these people any more.

  6. 6.

    beltane

    August 1, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    @Tonal Crow: I really detest the way these Republican assholes are rehabilitating Hitler. Next thing you know they’ll be crediting Hitler for blue skies and warm summer breezes.

  7. 7.

    Chris

    August 1, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    @kindness:

    I do. They’re the same religious nuts as always. And to them, sex is as bad as abortion. It’s not about life, it’s about obedience to God (as defined by them).

  8. 8.

    butler

    August 1, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    @kindness: They’re anti-sex and anti-woman. Its as simple as that.

  9. 9.

    Citizen_X

    August 1, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    I can’t believe you people are so willing to oppress me with that video. This is like Kim Jong-Hitler times ten.

  10. 10.

    SFAW

    August 1, 2012 at 5:49 pm

    @kindness:
    “Every sperm is sacred”, remember?

  11. 11.

    pragmatism

    August 1, 2012 at 5:51 pm

    NEVER FORGET the day that limited government proponents were prevented from governing a woman’s nooners.

  12. 12.

    Jerzy Russian

    August 1, 2012 at 5:52 pm

    I am sure the victims of Pearl Harbor and 9-11 would have preferred to have pills dropped on them, rather than bombs, bullets, planes, etc.

    Can’t we outlaw stupidity already? If this Congress won’t do that, let’s get one that will.

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    August 1, 2012 at 5:54 pm

    @butler:

    They’re anti-sex and anti-woman

    No, they’re pro-sex and anti-woman. They want (married) people to have sex; they just want them to have babies as a result.

  14. 14.

    Roger Moore

    August 1, 2012 at 5:55 pm

    @pragmatism:

    NEVER FORGET the day that limited government proponents were prevented from governing a woman’s nooners.

    They want to shrink government until it’s small enough to probe a woman’s vagina.

  15. 15.

    Jerzy Russian

    August 1, 2012 at 5:56 pm

    @pragmatism:

    NEVER FORGET the day that limited government proponents were prevented from governing a woman’s nooners.

    I will always remember where I was when things came down on 8/1/12: working my ass off all day (with numerous breaks to look at this blog).

  16. 16.

    SFAW

    August 1, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    This is like Kim Jong-Hitler times ten.

    Given this, and some of the “This is like …” in the other Mike-Kelly-is-a-fucking-moron thread, I’m a thinkin’ it’s time for a thread devoted to hyperbole and its injudicious use by the Reichtards.

    On the other hand, having a thread like that would be the worst thing since Osama bin-Hitler-Soros flew the Lusi-tanic-burg into the Twin Towers, the aircraft being loaded with 100-megaton anthrax/botulinum warheads, as well as abortifacient-laced voter registration/rape forms to be dropped on the Tomb of St. Andrew Breitbart.

  17. 17.

    Tonal Crow

    August 1, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    @kindness:

    What I’m having a hard time understanding is how the fundies have made the claim that contraception is just as bad as abortion and should be treated as equally iky.
    __
    Where TF has this come from?

    From their need to get their hands on THEIR PRECIOUS gain political power to use to subjugate you, me, and everyone else to their will.

    —
    Tag: Romney’s worse than Sarah Palin.

  18. 18.

    Jerzy Russian

    August 1, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    @SFAW:

    On the other hand, having a thread like that would be the worst thing since Osama bin-Hitler-Soros flew the Lusi-tanic-burg into the Twin Towers, the aircraft being loaded with 100-megaton anthrax/botulinum warheads, as well as abortifacient-laced voter registration/rape forms to be dropped on the Tomb of St. Andrew Breitbart.

    You forgot to throw the personal mandate in there.

  19. 19.

    Jay in Oregon

    August 1, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    @kindness:
    What I’m having a hard time understanding is how the fundies have made the claim that contraception is just as bad as abortion and should be treated as equally iky.

    For too many fundamentalist Christians, it has always been thus. This is one of the few times they’re being honest about it.

    To them, no one should have the sexytimes unless it’s to make (preferably Christian) babies.

  20. 20.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 1, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    @Jerzy Russian:

    Can’t we outlaw stupidity already? If this Congress won’t do that, let’s get one that will

    You’ll have to be sure Mike Kelly isn’t in Congress. He won’t vote to outlaw himself, unless you can make him think he’s gay or something. Then he’ll happily vote for it.

  21. 21.

    pragmatism

    August 1, 2012 at 6:03 pm

    @Roger Moore: some sort of wand shaped government? i suppose the wimmens can always turn their head or not listen to the results, you know, in the interest of fairness.

  22. 22.

    Roger Moore

    August 1, 2012 at 6:06 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    You’ll have to be sure Mike Kelly isn’t in Congress. He won’t vote to outlaw himself, unless you can make him think he’s gay or something. Then he’ll happily vote for it.

    Dunning-Kruger might work in our favor for something like that. The dumbest, most incompetent Congresscritters will believe they’re under no personal risk and will be happy to pass legislation they think will only ban those evil liebruls.

  23. 23.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 1, 2012 at 6:07 pm

    @Jay in Oregon:

    For too many fundamentalist Christians, it has always been thus. This is one of the few times they’re being honest about it.

    This.

    A million times, this.

    The opposition to abortion has ALWAYS been about sexytime. Babies are totally secondary. It’s about punishing the sluts, about controlling women.

    It’s like that moron troll we had here the other day, all concerned with “fetal pain”, without the slightest consideration of the non-sentient, non-human incubator organism of the fetus.

    They really do not get that part. At all.

  24. 24.

    Seebach

    August 1, 2012 at 6:10 pm

    Gotta ask about Susan G. Komen. Anyone know if they’re still feeling the hurt, or has that storm passed?

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    August 1, 2012 at 6:10 pm

    @Jerzy Russian:

    You forgot to throw the personal mandate in there.

    Numerous responses come to mind. The less vile ones:
    1) I left it out so you’d have something to do
    2) Your crucifying correcting me is the worst disaster since the Holocaust
    3) Doh!
    4) I don’t think Mrs. SFAW would appreciate it if I went on a man date
    5) Because SHUT UP!

    usw.

  26. 26.

    Boots Day

    August 1, 2012 at 6:11 pm

    Mike Kelly and his wife have four children. I wonder why they never had more than that.

  27. 27.

    Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God

    August 1, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    @Jay in Oregon:

    For too many fundamentalist Christians, it has always been thus. This is one of the few times they’re being honest about it.

    …and we’ve reached the point where the simplest refutation is something along the lines of “keep your fucking religion to yourself, m’kay?”

  28. 28.

    SFAW

    August 1, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    @Boots Day:

    Mike Kelly and his wife have four children. I wonder why they never had more than that.

    Because the milkman only drops by once every couple of years or so?

  29. 29.

    Boots Day

    August 1, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    By the way, I saw this on Mike Kelly’s Web site, under “Mike’s Story”:

    When the federal government took over General Motors, Mike received a letter and a call telling him the government would be taking away one of his successful franchises. Although the company had been successful and met all of requirements of the franchise agreement, the “new” General Motors was going to take the franchise from the Kelly family, also likely resulting in the loss of many jobs at Mike Kelly Automotive. But Mike hired an attorney and took on the federal government and ultimately won the battle to keep his franchise. Mike is often quoted as saying, “If my federal government can try and do this to me, they can try and do this to anyone.” Together, with his family, he decided to run for Congress and fight against the gross over-reach of the Obama administration.

    Mike, if not for the “gross over-reach of the Obama administration,” there wouldn’t be a General Motors, and your franchise would have been kaput anyway.

  30. 30.

    SatanicPanic

    August 1, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    @SFAW:

    2) Your crucifying correcting me is the worst disaster since the Holocaust

    He’s taking your first amendment rights!

  31. 31.

    SFAW

    August 1, 2012 at 6:15 pm

    @Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:

    …and we’ve reached the point where the simplest refutation is something along the lines of “keep your fucking religion to yourself, m’kay?”

    If only it were that easy.

  32. 32.

    Southern Beale

    August 1, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    Aaaand over in my home state of Tennessee:

    TN Rep. Kelly Keisling forwards Obama fake assassination/martial law rumor to constituents

    State Rep. Kelly Keisling, a first-term lawmaker from Byrdstown, passed along a conspiracy theory email to constituents this week and rapidly reaped the sort of political firestorm that only the Internet can deliver.
    __
    Through an aide using his email account at the state legislature, Keisling shared an online article that alleges President Barack Obama is planning to fake his assassination as part of a plan to impose martial law. Sketchy theories like this abound in the days before a presidential election, but Keisling apparently took it seriously enough to sound the alarm.
    __
    “God help us, if ANYONE stoops to this level!” reads a portion of the message that appeared to be written by someone other than Keisling but presumably expressed a sentiment he shared. “As I was reading this article I kept thinking that the more we are aware that something like this is remotely possible, the better off we are to recognize it and fend it off…”

    Tennessee legislators, STILL embarrassing me …

  33. 33.

    D. Mason

    August 1, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    @kindness:

    Where TF has this come from? I don’t even recognise these people any more.

    Most of this is being fueled by the leadership of the Catholic Church. There’s something about contraception that they can’t stand. Perhaps because their sexual interests don’t lie in women, or adults, they’re not stressing on the unwanted pregnancy factor that all women and most men consider a part of sexual life.

  34. 34.

    hep kitty

    August 1, 2012 at 6:20 pm

    I liked Rachel’s segment last night talking about how this looks to the average American who is worried shitless about the economy and is looking to Congress to do something about it, NOW.

    We are paying these people to do this sort of thing, in these times.

    Now, when my mom was growing up in the south in the 40’s, she lived in a small town. She said a lady from a PP type organization would come around to ladies’ homes, including my grandmother’s, and give you condoms and it was no big deal and this shit pisses her off as much as it does me.

    Again, this was the south in the 40’s. My grandmother had 2 children.

  35. 35.

    pragmatism

    August 1, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    @SatanicPanic:

    He’s taking your first amendment rights!

    FSM help us I have seen this argument unironically used at least 10 times today. apparently a lot of people took professor palin’s constitutional law seminar.

  36. 36.

    Ben Franklin

    August 1, 2012 at 6:23 pm

    @Southern Beale:

    That might be something JW Booth might say to facilitate his escape.

    Has the Secret Service interviewed?

  37. 37.

    The Moar You Know

    August 1, 2012 at 6:27 pm

    I can understand how this would be an issue for Republicans – it’s not like you need contraception when the entirety of your sex life is anonymously fucking other men in airport bathroom stalls, or donning two wetsuits and hanging yourself from the ceiling with a dildo in your ass.

  38. 38.

    SatanicPanic

    August 1, 2012 at 6:27 pm

    @pragmatism: I vouch for that. Almost all because of the Chik-Fil-A sponsored Westboro Baptist Church rally that’s going on today. “It’s their business what they want to support, LIBERAL GESTAPO!”

  39. 39.

    Frankensteinbeck

    August 1, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:
    I don’t think it’s about punishing the sluts and controlling women. Those are fringe benefits. It’s about enforcing their culture on the rest of us. It’s about disapproving of sex, period. Punishing men for it is and always has been on the list, usually with ‘now you have to marry her’, although they’ve gotten good runs with ‘masturbate and you go to Hell’. They just haven’t regressed that far back yet. It’s about our society’s attitude that sex is a process where men prey on women, and their terror of their daughters being victimized by so much as learning sex exists. It’s about them personally knowing that sex in their life has always been an act of selfishness, so it’s good to protect young women from it.

    This has always been on the fundie agenda. Always. They stopped talking about it openly because it got public backlash. Abortion was a much more winning fight, because ‘You’re killing babies’ is the most righteous sounding thing you can possibly say.

  40. 40.

    Ash Can

    August 1, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    @D. Mason:

    There’s something about contraception that they can’t stand.

    It’s this: Vatican II was all set to OK contraception, but the wingnut bishops of that day persuaded Pope Paul VI that putting the Church in the position of appearing to admit that it had made a doctrinal mistake would be worse than anything else the Church could possibly do. As a result, they know that the ban on contraception was a political, rather than doctrinal, decision, they know that lay Catholics know, and they know that said laity has, and has had for decades, the attitude that the Vatican can take its face-saving political decision and stick it up its collective ass.

  41. 41.

    g

    August 1, 2012 at 6:40 pm

    President Barack Obama is planning to fake his assassination as part of a plan to impose martial law.

    He’s going to pretend being dead so he can rule as Supreme Dictator?

  42. 42.

    Older_Wiser

    August 1, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    Is castration for these mindless misogynists asking too much?

    Or they can just stop fucking with my bodily functions.

    [Sigh] At least I’m well past my childbearing years, but they’ll find something to screw with, like my Social Security and Medicare.

  43. 43.

    Roger Moore

    August 1, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    @g:

    He’s going to pretend being dead so he can rule as Supreme Dictator?

    Nobody ever said crazy conspiracy theories have to make sense. And maybe it’s something that got garbled; he was going to fake an attempted assassination, pin the blame on wingnuts, and use that as an excuse to take away our guns and our right to vote.

  44. 44.

    bemused

    August 1, 2012 at 6:51 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Considering how prevalent pron watching is in repressed fundie areas of the country, they are getting their sexy times, just not always with their partners. What messed up people.

  45. 45.

    Redleg

    August 1, 2012 at 7:00 pm

    I think it’s just about time to put these insane tea-party officials down like we do rapid dogs.

  46. 46.

    bemused

    August 1, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    Of course, Republicans are freaking out. They know very well that trying to take away contraceptive coverage from women and their spouses/partners after they have the extra savings in their pockets will go over like a lead balloon.

  47. 47.

    bemused

    August 1, 2012 at 7:08 pm

    Of course, Republicans are freaking out. They know very well that trying to take away contraceptive coverage from women and their spouses/partners after they have the extra savings in their pockets will go over like a lead balloon.

  48. 48.

    bemused

    August 1, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    Of course, Republicans are freaking out. They know very well that trying to take away contraceptive coverage from women and their spouses/partners after they have the extra savings in their pockets will go over like a lead balloon.

  49. 49.

    jon

    August 1, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    It is like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor Day! You have Americans loving each other and going to work and play, thinking it’s a lovely day for fun and pleasure. Then some goons representing crazed religions and the worship of a man-god (Emperor or something that’s an anagram of “insane anglo warlord”) appear to make things miserable and try to make us forget ourselves. But we fight for what’s right because we must.

  50. 50.

    bemused

    August 1, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    Hiccup.

  51. 51.

    Patricia Kayden

    August 1, 2012 at 7:15 pm

    @Southern Beale: I love his faux apology. Pretty much promises to be careful about how he distributes such nonsense in the future. I guess he’s shocked that one of the recipients sent the email to Huff Post. What an Idiot.

  52. 52.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    August 1, 2012 at 7:22 pm

    So, someone on FB goes:

    “I’m confused, so making the pills free will make them remember to take them which will make them not smoke when they are pregnant which will reduce health care costs? I’m just saying, politics of who pays aside, this was a whole lot of non-sequitor.”

  53. 53.

    Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God

    August 1, 2012 at 7:23 pm

    @SFAW:

    If only it were that easy.

    Try saying it to someone’s face sometime. They STFU real quick.

    (Just make sure you’re not outnumbered…)

  54. 54.

    Tehanu

    August 1, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    It’s 2012 and we have to explain that something used by virtually every woman is a good thing.

    Well, there’s your problem right there. Women use it, ergo it’s (a) totally unimportant and (b) really icky.

  55. 55.

    SFAW

    August 1, 2012 at 7:54 pm

    @Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:

    Try saying it to someone’s face sometime. They STFU real quick.

    Well, not being especially tough – unlike those manly-men Reichtards – and not being into talking the talk if I can’t walk the walk (again, unlike those manly-men Reichtards), I’m not sure if I’d have the stones to try it.

    But your encouragement may get me actually to try it. I just hope I don’t pick the one Reichtard who’s packin’, and I end up being used for target practice. (Of course, if that happens, I don’t know if Mrs. SFAW will blame you, or thank you.)

  56. 56.

    Miki

    August 1, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    So, tell me – WTF is wrong with folks who don’t support this? Seriously? What are they afraid of? That their kid/grandkid will pop out a little bastard and will have to pay child support? Yep – that happens (but “she told me she was on the pill!!!!” Bwaaahaaaahahahahah). That their kid/grandkid will pop out a little bastard and will drop out of college and marry that jerk? Yep – that happens, too ( but “he told me he loved me!!!!!” Bwahhaaaahaaaa.) That they might have to parent that precious bundle of joy in their 40s/50s/60s? Bwahaaaahaaaaa.

    There’s an app for that, folks – it’s called birth control.

  57. 57.

    SFAW

    August 1, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    @Miki:

    What are they afraid of?

    The decline of American exceptionalism, if sex-without-consequences is made available to “those” people.

    That, plus it allows them to feel morally superior to anyone who likes sex for its own sake.

  58. 58.

    Fluke bucket

    August 1, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    08.01.2012 will always be remembered as Chick Fil A Day.

  59. 59.

    Miki

    August 1, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    @SFAW: In a prior life I regularly ran into these people and they were, sadly, more concerned about money and inconvenience than sex.

    But now that I think about it, money and inconvenience are an easy substitute for sex – bad sex, not good sex (duh).

    Bad sex – it explains so much ….

  60. 60.

    Stentor

    August 1, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    I say we all go to Representative Mike Kelly’s Congressional House webpage (https://kelly.house.gov/contact-me/email-me) & leave the following message: Until you grow or otherwise obtain a pair of ovaries, I firmly suggest you shut the fuck up.

    The following zipcodes will get you past his pesky verification hurdle: Butler 16001, Greenville 16125, Erie 16507, Meadville 16335, or Warren 16365

  61. 61.

    debbie

    August 1, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    It’s probably already been said, but do these clowns who wave the Founding Fathers around like little flags not understand that this country was founded by people seeking to escape Church persecution, and that their demands will only lead to a reinstatement of that kind of persecution? What kind of patriotism is that?

  62. 62.

    SFAW

    August 1, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    @Miki:

    Bad sex – it explains so much ….

    I must be from a different era: I was always taught – well, led to believe, I guess – that there’s no such thing as bad sex.

    It’s just that some is better than others …

  63. 63.

    SFAW

    August 1, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    @debbie:

    but do these clowns who wave their little “Founding Fathers” around like little flags

    Fixed, to reflect more accurately the Reichtard Manly Men ethos

  64. 64.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 1, 2012 at 8:48 pm

    @debbie:

    Well, the Puritans in MA founded this country to escape persecution, mainly because they were not the ones persecuting.

    Once they got here, it was wide open for them to persecute away.

    Which gave us Rhode Island, and started a whole new trend: telling the persecutors to stick it.

    One that the jeebofascists are eager to reverse.

  65. 65.

    Fluke bucket

    August 1, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    @SFAW: As the old prophet once said, “Ever since the first I had the worst I had was good”

  66. 66.

    SFAW

    August 1, 2012 at 9:22 pm

    @Fluke bucket:

    Preach it, brother!!

  67. 67.

    RedKitten

    August 1, 2012 at 10:12 pm

    Let’s not forget that for the fundies, one of the biggest affronts is that a lot of women are working outside the home, instead of staying home and raising their babies like God intended.

    And to them, a lot of that blame lies squarely with birth control. If women would just accept whatever babies God wants to grant them with, then it would all be okay again.

    But right now, because women can actually choose when to have children, the damn broads aren’t happy with their proper place anymore! We have women who are letting daycares raise their children, going to work (at a job that they took away from some deserving man, no doubt), and they don’t even have the house cleaned and supper on the table when their husbands get home! It’s just not the natural way of things, by gum!

  68. 68.

    Chet

    August 2, 2012 at 1:23 am

    @RedKitten: And this viewpoint is by no means confined to conservative men. Some of the staunchest “pro-life” (read: pro-forced-birth/pro-natalist/pro-patriarchy) nutters are women – those who chose “traditional” gender roles (or had the choice made for them by circumstance, familial or church pressure, etc.) and for whom the very existence of other lifestyle options for other women is a tacit and untenable rebuke to themselves.

    Kristen Luker addresses these dynamics in her (absolutely essential) Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood.

  69. 69.

    OpalSky 42

    August 2, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    @SFAW: Oh, Dude, that glorious line of lunacy is definitely a winner! 5 stars!

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