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I realize that female anatomy is usually an area of low understanding for the average male, especially the right-wing male, but goddam:

Swanson: I’m beginning to get some evidence from certain doctors and certain scientists that have done research on women’s wombs after they’ve gone through the surgery, and they’ve compared the wombs of women who were on the birth control pill to those who were not on the birth control pill. And they have found that with women who are on the birth control pill, there are these little tiny fetuses, these little babies, that are embedded into the womb. They’re just like dead babies. They’re on the inside of the womb. And these wombs of women who have been on the birth control pill effectively have become graveyards for lots and lots of little babies.

That’s Kevin Swanson, a radio host whose co-host Dave Buehner holds the Burkean traditionalist view that feminists are “family-destroying whores”.

I wonder how Kevin dreamed up this theory. Did he misread the Wikipedia entry for fibroids? Did he feel something rattling around during his last (probably furtive and certainly brief) attempt at coitus? Of the universe of lies that one could tell about birth control, how does someone come up with a lie that fucking strange?

(via Dan Savage)

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  2. 2.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    I bet he asked a Doctor of Theology from Liberty University. They would know all about those women parts through prayer.

    There’s a car that drives around my town with a “My child goes to Liberty University” decal. I keep wanting to find out the kids name so that I can avoid that person in the future.

  3. 3.

    Hunter Gathers

    Of the universe of lies that one could tell about birth control, how does someone come up with a lie that fucking strange

    Sounds like Mr. Swanson is gearing up for a GOP Senate Primary run. Either that, or he’s just another panty sniffing asshole who’s angry that all those whores on birth control aren’t choosing to fornicate with the likes of Kevin Swanson.

  6. 6.

    stinger

    I shudder to think of the mis- and non-information being provided to xian home-schooled kids on the topic of sex ed.

  8. 8.

    geg6

    Holy fuck, that is some industrial grade stoopid right there.

    Did he feel something rattling around during his last (probably furtive and certainly brief) attempt at coitus?

    Do we have any evidence that that he is even that familiar with anything resembling the female genitalia? I’m doubting it very much.

  9. 9.

    Face

    OT, but add this to the list of shootings. At least 3 pushing up daisies in Utah.

    If guns are outlawed, only Mormons will have guns apparently.

  11. 11.

    Comrade Dread

    @stinger: Well, I wasn’t home schooled, but I recall from my Baptist education that it was mostly medical slides of the reproductive systems, their component parts, the mechanics involved (stick Tab A into Slot B), and then a healthy dose of ‘never have sex unless you’re ready to have a baby.’

    Of course, by then, all of us boys had found our dad’s Playboy stash and were making crude jokes to each other outside of the teachers’ earshot.

  13. 13.

    jl

    I’ve read stuff typed by commenters on blogs who claimed that they were doctors, and they said that reactionary white male brains not only look like scrambled eggs, but structurally, they are like scrambled eggs. Scrambled eggs! Just mixed up blobs of confused protein.

    Think about that. How awful. These guys’ bad thinking have turned their brains into stinky rotting scrambled eggs inside their heads! Yucky.

  17. 17.

    jibeaux

    I once was told and believed that Ozzy Osbourne had impregnated a cat. Of course, I was five at the time. I did not believe the part where he then supposedly killed the cat, because half-cat half-Ozzy babies would be AWESOME and clearly he was just hiding them in the attic.
    This is probably Kevin Swanson’s next breaking scientific story.

  21. 21.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    Isn’t this the homunculus theory that had currency about the time the last papal resignation happened?

  22. 22.

    evinfuilt

    @jl:

    How dare you insult eggs in such a way, chicken eggs (if fertilized) at least had a chance at intelligence, that poor radio host never had such an opportunity.

  24. 24.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Comrade Dread: My public school version of sex ed included your stuff plus a film showing women giving natural birth. Scared the girls more than any discussion of STDs.

  25. 25.

    Narcissus

    I thought homunculus was like a little man in your skull pulling levers and throwing switches and shit

  26. 26.

    Southern Beale

    This story was on the web last week. What’s really weird is if you read the whole conversation he has because he’s just … errrgh, trying so hard so very very hard to not look like a fucking loon. He goes on with this, “well, we’re checking on this, this is preliminary information, but we have no reason to think it’s not true and it really could be true but we’re checking and we’ll let you know …”

    Since the entire internet erupted into great heaving guffaws after this came out I’m pretty sure he has since found out that, y’know, it wasn’t true. Sigh.

    This is really part of a general issue I have with people trying to sell us shit — products, politices, laws, you names it — when they have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. Yes, we’re selling the idea that birth control causes tiny little abortions! But it doesn’t!

    Today I have a post up about Big Food selling the “harried mom demographic” a really ridiculous product that makes no sense, and I have to think some corporate MBA dude thought it up, some guy who never fucking has to cook dinner because if he did he’d understand why this product is ridiculous.

    And I’m pretty sure it’s a he because the company executives are all men.

  27. 27.

    Violet

    I’m beginning to get some evidence from certain doctors and certain scientists that have done research on men’s brains after they’ve gone through the surgery and they’ve compared the brains of white, evangelical Christian men those who were not evangelical Christian and white. And they have found with white evangelical Christian men their brains are filled with tiny little pen1ses. They’re just embedded in there. They’re just like dead boy pen1ses. They’re on the inside of the brain. And these brains of white men who have are evangelical Christians have effectively become graveyards for boy pen1ses.

  29. 29.

    Tonal Crow

    Of the universe of lies that one could tell about birth control, how does someone come up with a lie that fucking strange?

    Easy. A Republican thinks of the most repulsive thing he thinks he can gain political mileage from, then attributes it to his enemies. SATSQ.

  30. 30.

    quannlace

    Sweet Jesus, how twisted are these people? And of course, note the usual use of the weasely word ‘certain’ doctors, scientists.

  31. 31.

    BGinCHI

    Apparently he also thinks that when you get a “boner” one of your bones enters your penis and makes it hard.

    Where does this guy live cuz I want to mock him in person?

  32. 32.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    Bit by bit, the crushing burden of reality is driving the wingers further and further into their own alternative universe. I pray that between the FSM and quantum mechanics we’ll soon hear a clap of thunder as the air rushes into the spaces once occupied by wingnuts.

  33. 33.

    TenguPhule

    Did he feel something rattling around during his last (probably furtive and certainly brief) attempt at coitus?

    Dude, if he’s banging them in the womb then he’s doing it so wrong that its not even funny.

  35. 35.

    Tonal Crow

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:

    I pray that between the FSM and quantum mechanics we’ll soon hear a clap of thunder as the air rushes into the spaces once occupied by wingnuts.

    Instant Singularity’s gonna get you….

  36. 36.

    scav

    @Face: Is it now SOP to put schools in lockdown any time there’s an expression of second amendment freeedomooom nearby? Puts snow days into perspective — but if they have to make them up later, goodby summer vacation.

  37. 37.

    jeffreyw

    He was no doubt browsing the Letters of the Royal Society, as is his wont.

    But many of our imaginations and investigations of nature are futile, especially when we see little living animals and see their legs and must judge the same to be ten thousand times thinner than a hair of my beard, and when I see animals living that are more than a hundred times smaller and am unable to observe any legs at all, I still conclude from their structure and the movements of their bodies that they do have legs… and therefore legs in proportion to their bodies, just as is the case with the larger animals upon which I can see legs… Taking this number to be about a hundred times smaller, we therefore find a million legs, all these together being as thick as a hair from my beard, and these legs, besides having the instruments for movement, must be provided with vessels to carry food. — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1685

  38. 38.

    Southern Beale

    My mom went to a Catholic high school back in the 1940s. A Jesuit priest taught their “health” class. She said they learned that condom manufacturers put a pin-prick in one out of every 10 condoms at the factory. Seriously.

    This sorta reminds me of that story.

    I asked her, “but did you ask him why a condom manufacturer would do that? It doesn’t seem like it would be good for business to have your product fail regularly.” She said no one thought of that.

    Sigh.

  39. 39.

    GregB

    Besides making me throw-up in my mouth, good God, no wonder these people go through life terrified.

    That sounds like something out of a Heironymous Bosch painting.

    The sooner this anti-science lunatics get driven back to the margins of society the better.

  43. 43.

    jl

    @jeffreyw: Well, those Dutch dudes who invented the microscope hundreds of years ago put their splooge under the lens. Did you know there are little people inside the sperms? That’s right, that’s just what they saw. They wrote it down and everything.

    It all fits. Science!

  46. 46.

    GregB

    Also too, can the liberal left come up with a similar talking point used by the right wing when they talk about guns:

    “If you don’t know the difference between a gun clip and a gun magazine you have no right to talk about guns.”

    This should be applied to gay people, global warming and women’s vaginas.

    “If you can’t tell the difference between a womb and a Tales from the Crypt plot line, you have no right discussing reproductive rights.”

  47. 47.

    Tonal Crow

    @Pathman:

    Um, no. I look at hysterectomies for a living. Just, no.

    You’re part of the lib’ral conspiracy keeping THE FACTS from AMERICA!!!!! Haven’t you ever heard of WOMBGATE!?!?! and falsyfying data!!!!!! Sperm is not a pollutant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    /typical wingnut

  49. 49.

    Betsy

    Waht the fvck? OK, the next thing I want to know is — WHERE DID THIS COME FROM?

    After Todd Akin blurted about rape and pregnancy, his “theory” it turned out to have come from some old old source that used to be considered “medical wisdom,” rooted in Herodotus or perhaps Hippocrates, and currently repeated by “modern” conservadolts and there was more than one example.

    Someone on here found the source and explained how it is still current thinking among conservadolts and home-skoolers

    Anyone got the skinny on this one?

    What medieval “philosopher” first promulgated this “dead homunculus in the womb” notion?

    Or is it from a misogynist ancient Greek wiseacre?

    Or some Arab physician of the year 900 whose “wisdom” was translated into Norman French after the crusades?

  50. 50.

    Ms. D. Ranged in AZ

    @Xecky Gilchrist: No, I believe that homonculous dates all the way back to Aristotle. If so, good grief, they’re not wanting to take us back to the 1950’s but before Jesus (about 300 BC). Why do the agree with those women hating, homosexual loving ancient Greeks? More importantly, why do they hate Jesus?

  51. 51.

    hoodie

    They can’t be dead babies, because Norforms could’t cover that smell. Must be in sort of suspended undead zombie state, awaiting harvest.

  52. 52.

    Frankensteinbeck

    I just guessing here, but it sounds like he heard a lecture on the process of ova production – all the eggs already existing, attachment to the uteral wall and sloughing – and he knew so little biology that he grabbed a few words and thought he understood. After all, he knows contraception is evil, so something like this is expected.

  53. 53.

    Mudge

    One of these guys…from Wikipedia.

    [Phil] Gingrey is one of three OB/GYNs in the current House, the other two being fellow Republicans Michael Burgess of Texas and Phil Roe of Tennessee.[

    Or maybe Tom Coburn from Oklahoma, also an OB/GYN.

    My money is on Gingrey.

  54. 54.

    scav

    Or some Arab physician of the year 900 whose “wisdom” was translated into Norman French after the crusades?

    A muslim via surrender monkey belief now accepted as latest greatest saving ‘merca talking point?! contented sigh. . .

  55. 55.

    Gus

    I wonder how Kevin dreamed up this theory

    From the oft cited expert that Charles Pierce often cites, Otto Yerass.

  56. 56.

    Grincheuse

    I listened to right wing radio for a couple of minutes the other day. A young man called the male host and asked his opinion about fighting abortion rights. His “conservative” friends felt that abortion needed to be ended at the federal level and his “libertarian” friends felt it should be fought at the state level. Do libertarians actually oppose abortion? I was surprised by that since I share religious views — although no other views — with Ayn Rand, myself.

  57. 57.

    TooManyJens

    What’s weird about this (well, besides the obvious) is that the usual line from the anti-Pill faction is that it prevents implantation. So this guy, who clearly just feels icky about birth control and is casting about for reasons why, can’t even get that right. The evidence for prevention of implantation isn’t that good either, btw, but at least it’s based on something resembling science.

    It’s a sign of how far we’ve sunk that I’m just grateful this didn’t come from an elected official.

  58. 58.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Grincheuse:
    There is a very large overlap between self-declared libertarians and conservative Christians, yes. Ron Paul, for example. It is the clearest demonstration that they say ‘property rights’ but they MEAN ‘I Got Mine, Fuck You’.

    EDIT – And I cannot sufficiently stress how much by ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ they mean ‘stop preventing me from oppressing other people.’

  60. 60.

    Tonybrown74

    Vulva: the Gateway to the Dead Baby Cemetery.

    Is it me? Or do you get the feeling that these people are not only ignorant about women’s bodies, but are fearful?

  63. 63.

    Mnemosyne

    @Xecky Gilchrist:

    It wouldn’t be the first time that weirdly ancient theories have popped back into the wingnut consciousness. I think another one I saw was the notion that sperm hangs around in the womb for years after you have sex, so if you have premarital sex and then later get married, you could have the baby of the guy you had sex with five years ago instead of your husband’s! Da-da-daaaaaaah!

  64. 64.

    Joel

    That’s it, canceling my subscription to Nature. At least presuming Swanson has a newsletter or journal that I can subscribe to.

  66. 66.

    smith

    Keep the “outreach” efforts going GOP.

    Just goes to show that most talk-show hosts are nothing more than dog turds with legs.

  67. 67.

    RedKitten

    Jeebus…I was on the pill for 18 years before having kids. I’m surprised there was actually any room for the fetus in there, what with all the dead whore-pill babies.

  68. 68.

    scav

    forgive me. off at NYT, taking detour into article about MO couple accused of chaining the husband’s teenage son to a steel pole in the basement. “Court documents say the boy’s weight had dropped from 130 pounds to 103 pounds. The couple says the boy is bipolar.”

    forgive for for the snortgiggle, it was possibly loud enough to break through the digital walls.

  71. 71.

    kc

    Seriously, tens of thousands of wingnuts will hear this and BELIEVE it and teach it to their children.

  72. 72.

    kc

    @TooManyJens:

    It’s a sign of how far we’ve sunk that I’m just grateful this didn’t come from an elected official.

    Let’s commence the countdown to the first repetition of this horsheshit from an elected official.

    We can have pool on what state the official will represent – dibs on Oklahoma.

  76. 76.

    Tonybrown74

    @TooManyJens:

    Now that my initial, “whatthefuck?” shock has warn off, I can’t help but see a sad humor in this. They’re like little 8 year old boys daring each other to go into the scary abandoned house or, coincidentally enough, graveyard.

    “I dare you to go in there!”

    “Nah uh! I’m not going in there! You go in!”

    “What are you? Chicken?”

    “I’m not chicken! You’re chicken!”

    …

    How do these people even have sex?

  78. 78.

    ricky

    All those years I laid with head on Mommy’s tummy as she read to me. Now I realize those rumbles I heard were not, as she claimed, Mexican food, but the tiny screams of dead brothers and sisters I will forever never know.

  79. 79.

    Paul in KY

    You know, if you put your ear down there beside one of these liberal wimmens hoohaw, you can hear the little fetuseses crying out.

  81. 81.

    Tonal Crow

    @Paul in KY:

    You know, if you put your ear down there beside one of these liberal wimmens hoohaw, you can hear the little fetuseses crying out.

    How long before some mass shooter trots this out as an excuse? And the NRA heh-indeeds the idea that contraception causes mass shootings?

  82. 82.

    Gex

    @Grincheuse: If you take libertarians at their word, it makes sense that this would confuse you. But real world study of the North American Libertarian finds that they nearly universally vote Republican no matter what, calling into question whether the North American Libertarian is actually its own species.

  83. 83.

    jibeaux

    @TooManyJens: Exactly. I thought it actually was designed to do that as a secondary line of defense (make any eggs that did get released and fertilized less likely to attach). In this guy’s world, they’re attaching, resisting any bodily attempts to slough them off monthly, but not growing because they’re…remaining in suspended animation? Dying?

  84. 84.

    MattF

    Just bear in mind that this is the best wingnut argument against contraception. “It’s really just a kind of abortion.” You have been warned.

    ETA: Note that ‘Every sperm is sacred’ has apparently been abandoned.

  85. 85.

    scav

    wait wait, can we get them to believe that all those little embedded babies are, of course by now, very very very hungry and thus prone to viciously eat any and all fresh new meat that appears in their general vicinity?

  86. 86.

    Tonal Crow

    @Gex:

    @Grincheuse: If you take libertarians at their word, it makes sense that this would confuse you. But real world study of the North American Libertarian finds that they nearly universally vote Republican no matter what, calling into question whether the North American Libertarian is actually its own species.

    I’ve often heard libertarians described as “Republicans who like to smoke pot”. I would amend that slightly by adding “, but want to send you to prison for doing the same”.

  94. 94.

    Paul in KY

    @scav: Good idea. Although I think alot of them are looking for another entry point & another sex.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Only their hypocrisy.

  97. 97.

    The Moar You Know

    I can’t shake the feeling that Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner have rather large closets.

  98. 98.

    liberal

    @jibeaux:
    Yeah, though now there’s all this ethics brewing about putting human genes in animals, or making human/animal chimera, IIRC.

  99. 99.

    cckids

    @stinger:

    I shudder to think of the mis- and non-information being provided to xian home-schooled kids on the topic of sex ed.

    Why bother? I’m sure it consists of one word: “DON’T”

  100. 100.

    jl

    And if you pick your nose, your nostrils will grow together into one big gaping hole and people will laugh at you. Did you know that?

    Step on a crack, you’ll break your mother’s back.

    You can tell a witch by tying her up and throwing her in a pool of water. If she floats long enough to avoid drowning, she’s guilty.

    So much knowledge comes from good old fashioned Real Science, and it’s a tragedy that liberals have hi jacked it with ideological junk.

    She’s a witch!
    youtube.com/watch?v=fr8DIg3oHFI

  103. 103.

    cckids

    @AliceBlue: My very Catholic high school showed a similar film, with the same results. Funnily, our teacher was approximately 8 1/2 months pregnant at the time; for the rest of the classes until the baby was born, the guys all watched her as though aliens would erupt soon or something. She found it hysterical.

  105. 105.

    sb

    The late chess champion Bobby Fischer, who was crazier than a shithouse rat, once said this:

    I’m very concerned because I think the Jews want to drive the elephants to extinction because the trunk of an elephant reminds them of an uncircumcised penis. I’m absolutely serious about that… Jews are sick, they’re mental cases.

    Before today, I honestly thought I’d never read or hear something so goddamn nutty. But then along came Kevin Swanson…

  106. 106.

    Paul in KY

    @jl: Of course, if she drowns the good old fashioned way, then we know the dead woman wasn’t a witch. There’s a certain logic to that…

  107. 107.

    Tonybrown74

    This country has a bizarre cluelessness WRT sexuality (and especially female sexuality).

    I was talking to a female coworker about our Holiday party back in December. She had asked me if was bringing a date, and I mentioned I was bringing a friend, Ruth.

    Another coworker (male, obviously) overheard this, and, because I am quite openly gay, was immediately confused. He asked if “Ruth” was a woman.

    I said yes.

    He then asked WHY would I bring a woman. I replied what does the gender of my date matter, since it’s just a party.

    It took a moment for me to realize where he was coming from, and then I became annoyed enough to say, “just because I’m gay doesn’t mean that I’m afraid of vagina.”

    I probably shouldn’t have said that to him.

  108. 108.

    geg6

    @kc:
    @Paul in KY:

    You’re both losers. I’m taking South Cackalacky. In my experience, that’s the ground zero of the crazy.

    @Paul in KY:

    You know, if you put your ear down there beside one of these liberal wimmens hoohaw, you can hear the little fetuseses crying out.

    I fully expect to hear this on FOX and Friends tomorrow morning.

  116. 116.

    scav

    @Tonybrown74: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that all paired-relationships between a male and female are sexual in nature. There are no other possible bonds between the entities.

    There really is a deeper problem behind their cluelessness, and they both exhibit it..

  118. 118.

    Anoniminous

    Laughing so hard I’ve got tears running and damn near peeing in my pants.

    lordy, lordy. The things those stupid morons come out with.

  121. 121.

    nemesis

    At times, when my erect peenie bumps into some of those lingering dead vajayjay babies, my peenie says, like, “Woah!That aint cool”, and then tends toward flaccidity. Ive contended all along that such a reaction wasnt my fault, ya know with flouride in the drinking water and stuff…

  123. 123.

    Suzanne

    I will never understand the level of immaturity that leads to this thinking. This is even more childish than thinking that girls have cooties. How can you be that grossed out and clueless about women’s bodies, especially when you purport to want to touch them?!?! I mean, how could you possibly have a normal, healthy sexual relationship with that kind of attitude?

    Oh. Yeah. Right. I forgot.

  125. 125.

    JPL

    OT..The Hagel committee vote is being streamed on CSPAN. Members can each speak 8 minutes and then the vote will occur.

  126. 126.

    Mnemosyne

    @JPL:

    So, really, the only way his nomination can fail is if Senate Democrats vote against him.

    Yeah, I’m not feeling much better about that.

  128. 128.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Suzanne: no, you don’t get it. This is where cooties come from, like, scientifically. Like how The Force is a product of midichlorians.

  129. 129.

    Mike Lamb

    So if I know my biology…the womb is Hades, the viable eggs are Eurydice, the sperm is Orpheus, and there is a tiny raftsman that transports the sperm across the River Styx in order to rescue the live baby?

  132. 132.

    Tonybrown74

    Now the immaturity in me comes out.

    Imagine comedy gold with a prostitue, a repressed pastor, and a ventriloquist hiding in the closet (or under the bed).

  133. 133.

    David in NY

    Waht the fvck? OK, the next thing I want to know is — WHERE DID THIS COME FROM?

    Me too. One reason I like this blog is that enough of the denizens dip their toes into the crazy that one of them can usually “explain” or at least give some insight into the origin of this nonsense. But so far, nada.

  134. 134.

    low-tech cyclist

    Maybe Swanson confused Richard Brautigan’s poem “The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster” with a science text?

    When you take your pill
    it’s like a mine disaster.
    I think of all the people
    lost inside of you.

  135. 135.

    Michele C

    @Ruckus: Someone smarter put it there for him. Maybe his mommy is smart? (I know, genetically it’s unlikely, but I had to guess something.)

    I know you all are funny, but this revolted and scared me even with all the humor in this thread. {{SHIVER}}

  137. 137.

    David in NY

    @TooManyJens:

    the usual line from the anti-Pill faction is that it prevents implantation

    Ah, I see it. Sometimes it obviously doesn’t prevent it — it just makes that fertilized egg implant too deep. Why not, after all? Little babies implanted everywhere.

  140. 140.

    Ruckus

    @Michele C:
    I was thinking that any one smarter than him would not want to have anything to do with him. Mom making him move out of state, or doing so herself, that kind of thing.

    ETA, I think we have to laugh, the only other reasonable response would be to run screaming onto the freeway.

  141. 141.

    Tonybrown74

    @Ruckus:

    A bit miffed, and then he said, “I know that.”

    And then I asked, “then what’s your confusion, then?”

    Silence.

    My female coworker rolled her eyes at that point.

  142. 142.

    Ruckus

    @Tonybrown74:
    So it was the proper response.
    Are people just afraid of the unknown? That would explain this idiot. Of course in the case of having sex I’m not sure any actual facts or true info is necessary. Nature pretty much tells us where the parts go so it really is a social issue, getting two or more individuals to agree on the time, place and possible degree of difficulty.

  143. 143.

    El Cid

    The major opposition conservative (and just recently ruling) party doesn’t know where babies come from.

  148. 148.

    NR

    This sounds like someone the Democrats desperately need to compromise with. After all, compromise and bipartisanship are the solutions to everything!

  149. 149.

    Citizen_X

    I think Swanson’s head must be full of tiny dead rational thoughts. Just a graveyard of rational thought in there.

  150. 150.

    General Stuck

    This sounds like someone the Democrats desperately need to compromise with. After all, compromise and bipartisanship are the solutions to everything!

    In space, no one can hear you fap.

  154. 154.

    Julie Anne

    I’ve been on Swanson’s tail on my blog because I used to be in this environment and know the damage it can do to people. I’ve been tweeting him almost daily, in addition to his friend, RC Sproul Jr. both of whom are promoting a movie called Birth Control: How Did we Get Here? These men have an agenda and don’t care if their information is made up or not.

    If you look on my blog, I mention his follow-up response which is essentially a non-response. He does not cite any sources. Additionally, I have been commenting on his Facebook page. Sometimes my comments have “mysteriously” disappeared. However, when I commented that I would be taking a screen shot and posting on my blog, my comments were “unhidden”. Go figure.

    By the way, he has taken down the original radio broadcast, but he hasn’t admitted that he was wrong or provided sources.

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    danielx

    @Hunter Gathers:

    Or it could be that he’s one of those (very few!) who choose to save themselves for the holy bonds of matrimony, a la The Virgin Ben.

    As to the question of….

    Of the universe of lies that one could tell about birth control, how does someone come up with a lie that fucking strange?

    Simple enough, as Bill Maher once said to Ann Coulter:

    “You just make shit up.”

    And the wingnuts eat that shit up with a spoon.

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