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Skriven 2008-01-06 13:15:28 av Ross Sauer (1:123/1011)
   Kommentar till text 1149 av God Dan (1:138/666.0)
Ärende: Health, Safety and Bush
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>> Not every opponent of abortion comes from the right, but you knew that.
>> I'm not a proponent of abortion, but I'm a proponent of a woman's
>> right to choose.  I think the fewer women need abortions, the better.
>> But I don't think the government has any right to tell them when they
>> can or can't have one, and that's between a woman and her doctor.

> An example of the religious right's intrusion into gvt is that
> of sex education.

> Though they are correct that abstinance is about the only form
> of contraceptive that is 100% effective, getting it into
> practice is not even coming close to working.  There are no
> studies that demonstrate that extolling that and that alone
> results in a lowering of the illegitamate birth rate.
> To make matters worse, information on the efficacy of other forms
> of birth control from gvt publications.  Add to that that condoms
> do provide a reasonable form of prevention of STDs is not
> just downplayed but deemed by them to be ineffective.
> One of the things on abortion is that it supposedly increases
> a woman's chance in getting breast cancer.  That is a flat out
> lie.  Yet, it is being promoted as such by the Bush administration.
> It is all part of the New Republican's and Religious Right's
> assault on science.  All you need for confirmation of that is
> the fact that the Bush Administration ignored the recommendation
> of some 23 noted scientists and went with the tiny minority of
> 3 when it ruled against allowing the dissemination OTC of the
> "Morning After Pill".

> This gvt has stopped being run by reason and facts.  Instead, it
> is making decisions based on ideology.  To do so, it has cherry picked,
> ignored, fudged, hidden and even manufactured the facts to fit their
> particular viewpoint.

Another example of this is how school boards continue to wrestle with having
creationism taught in public school science classrooms, and that includes
"intelligent design."

Even though creationism continuously gets clobbered in science adn in the
courts, they keep pushing it.

A school board in Florida, due to influence by fundys on the board, wanted to
include what they called "alternatives to evolution." Translation: Creationism.

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