IS YOUR SEX LIFE BEING CENSORED?
A few little things you need to know, if you don't already.
(Source: Marie Claire October 2004, article by Susan Bako)
If a single mother accepts day care assistance, she's disqualified from food stamps and other monetary assistance. Meanwhile, married couples get tax credits for child care.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK, PART I:
Government-funded "abstinence-only" sex education costs us $138 million a year. Despite this, teens who signed "virginity pledges" developed STDs at the same rate as those who didn't. (Hmmmm....)
15% of insurance companies cover birth control pills, while half of them cover Viagara. Why? The Pill is considered "cosmetic", while erectile dysfunction is recognized as a disease.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK, PART II:
The Personal Responsibility, Work, & Family Promotion Act of 2003 sets aside $300 million per year for the next 5 years to promote the "value of marriage" in high schools.
If a school nurse dispenses emergency contraception to teens, that school will lose its federal funding, even if she's been raped, and even if she has parental consent.
On May 6, 2004, the FDA voted against making the morning-after pill available over-the-counter. (Not to be confused with RU-486, the European drug that terminates the pregnancy. The "morning after pill" prevents fertilization when taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex. )
But just because you have an Rx doesn't mean you can get it. Many pharmacies don't stock the morning-after pill, and certain state have laws that allow a Pharmacist to refuse to fill any Rx that doesn't square with his religious beliefs.
WELL...SHIT! BUT WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?
1) Start a campaign at work to get your employer to subscribe to a insurance policy that covers the Pill. Visit
www.covermypills.org/action for further info.
2) Take your gripe straight to the White House: www.thepetitionsite.comand type "birth control" in the search box to sign the petition asking the gov't to require insurance companies to cover Rx birth control. You might also want to remind the Shrub that such a move could sharply derease the demand for these abortions he's so dead against.
3) VOTE!
Support pro-choice judges at federal, state, and local levels. Just because Bush got a second term, that doesn't mean we just sit back & shut up for the next 4 years!
A few little things you need to know, if you don't already.
(Source: Marie Claire October 2004, article by Susan Bako)
If a single mother accepts day care assistance, she's disqualified from food stamps and other monetary assistance. Meanwhile, married couples get tax credits for child care.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK, PART I:
Government-funded "abstinence-only" sex education costs us $138 million a year. Despite this, teens who signed "virginity pledges" developed STDs at the same rate as those who didn't. (Hmmmm....)
15% of insurance companies cover birth control pills, while half of them cover Viagara. Why? The Pill is considered "cosmetic", while erectile dysfunction is recognized as a disease.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK, PART II:
The Personal Responsibility, Work, & Family Promotion Act of 2003 sets aside $300 million per year for the next 5 years to promote the "value of marriage" in high schools.
If a school nurse dispenses emergency contraception to teens, that school will lose its federal funding, even if she's been raped, and even if she has parental consent.
On May 6, 2004, the FDA voted against making the morning-after pill available over-the-counter. (Not to be confused with RU-486, the European drug that terminates the pregnancy. The "morning after pill" prevents fertilization when taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex. )
But just because you have an Rx doesn't mean you can get it. Many pharmacies don't stock the morning-after pill, and certain state have laws that allow a Pharmacist to refuse to fill any Rx that doesn't square with his religious beliefs.
WELL...SHIT! BUT WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?
1) Start a campaign at work to get your employer to subscribe to a insurance policy that covers the Pill. Visit
www.covermypills.org/action for further info.
2) Take your gripe straight to the White House: www.thepetitionsite.comand type "birth control" in the search box to sign the petition asking the gov't to require insurance companies to cover Rx birth control. You might also want to remind the Shrub that such a move could sharply derease the demand for these abortions he's so dead against.
3) VOTE!
Support pro-choice judges at federal, state, and local levels. Just because Bush got a second term, that doesn't mean we just sit back & shut up for the next 4 years!
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Not that some women didn't make a good go of it before, but its a WHOLE lot easier.
How that numbskull Bush got re-elected, when his English is worse than mine, I will never really know. He better pray he stays in favor with the Christian Right or they will crucify him. There is no other power behind him I'm afraid.
Personally, I think if Christ were here today he would call Bush out for the Pharisee he is.
I think this whole SG site and other major changes in the world are the direct result of the near-emancipation of the last true slaves, women. And Bush and his cronies are fighting back mind you. Women's issues were THE big issues in this campaign.
Even Issue 1 in Ohio had a lot more to do with who gets property in a live-in situation than it did with the sanctity of marriage. My fucking state passed that bastard too. Damn it!
Thanks for commenting on my introduction at SG Columbus, I'm going to send a friend request. Feel free to say no, no pressure.
Later,
Tim.