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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
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Perhaps what is needed, since abortion is on the outs (legally) in many places, followed, I'm sure, by access to good birth control (for women), is a poll tax.
Women and girls are the ones most effected by pregnancy, birth and nursing, both economically, socially and physically. It seems an "undue burden" placed on the female gender, especially since women and girls don't get pregnant without a male, so . . . .
I propose a poll tax placed on all males between the ages of 14 and 64.
The monies collected will go to pre-natal care (since we are really a pro fetus country), lost wages for women and girls who don't have paid pregnancy leave, home tutors for the pregnant and nursing minors that have difficulty remaining in school, group homes for the minor pregnant by incest, etc.
This would be the best way to spread the burden related to biology and who gets stuck with the bun in the oven.
I am sure that so many of the pro-life people would be for this, even if it means paying a poll tax on their minor sons over the age of 14.
After all - what a little tax when you are saving The Fetus?
In the words of that good Protesting Christian, Martin Luther:
"Women should stay at home, sit still, keep house and bear children. If a woman grows weary and dies from childbearing, it does not matter. Let her die bearing children. That is all she is here for."
Nice to know I live in a country where so many seem to value women so little that their health while pregnant is not a concern. I wish these people would move to Saudi Arabia - but I wouldn't wish it on those women there - they have enough of a burden to bear with their own cretins.
I suppose it would be too much to ask of the current White House "conservatives" to foot the bill for the AF1 trip to Crawford so the Little Prince can vote.
Given the way the people who call them conservatives these days accept personal responsibility, I would guess the bill will be covered by the Chinese who will collect from us later - with the rest of the debt pushed into the future by the responsibility crowd.
Pha! A pox on the lot of them.
This is just another example of how the xenophobic racists have been coming out of the closet since the current batch of "leaders" have made it okay to voice those views again.
The misogyny behind the anti choice movement is coming out too - and the SD Senetor is just the latest to give it voice.
Does this guy have a mother? Aunt? Sister? Daughter? Wife? I am sure his wife is beyond being impregnanted - but wonder if she wonders why she would have to go through that scenario, and give birth, just because she (assumably) is no long a virgin.
Appalling.
You are correct Disgusted.
But this is just our current "leaders" plan to deal with terrorists, who, as we've been indoctrinated, I mean , told, hate us for our freedoms.
So, in order to stop Taliban-type governments from hating us, we will emulate the best of their cultures - the criminalization of being born female.
Once women have no control over their uteri, then we can get rid of all those pesky laws requiring women be treated as full citizens with right to work for equal pay, right to education etc. We can then look to the bible so the males will know how much they can get and who they can sell their female children to. Or we can emulate the Saudis and not even bother with birth certificates for what is born female. Women will return to having 3 choices in life: wife, nun, or prostitute.
I hear women are happier with few choices anyhow.
SingleMan - it has already been brought up that to get condoms, you don't have to deal with a doctor's visit, an invasive exam, the lab fees and then a prescription that some pharmacist could decide it is against his morals to fill, but you're expressions of unfairness demonstrate a real misunderstanding of how insurance works.
Surely you know it is a pool?
That means you, as a single man, are paying higher rates to supplement your married co-worker who gets the Pill for his wife so your co-worker can have sex without additional children. It is also paying for his vasectomy. It is also paying for all the numerous doctor visits and shot for all the children he does have. Not to mention all the prenatal and delivery costs when his wife has the babies. And later it will pay for his Viagra.
If you think that it is unfair that men are paying for lifestyle choices that women choose when women get the Pill, please keep in mind all the other "unfairness" that insurance presents because it operates as a pool.
I'm healthy, single and a non-smoker. I am sure I do not get my "money's worth" out of my insurance the way some of my married with children co-workers do.
If you think that it is unfair that insurance should cover things that are connected to lifestyle choices (if women don't have sex with men, no need of the Pill), then you should be equally apposed to viagra (only used when a man wants a hard one), any sort of medication for people trying to get their wieght or smoking under control (just stop eating and smoking so much), any sort of sport injury type surgery (people just need to stop exercising)
And oh, guess you must really be opposed to child medical care. Isn't having children the mother of all life style choices.
Insurance is a pool idiot.
A Harvard Prof named Harvey write a book to define Manly Men.
I wonder if he has already bought his mid life sports car yet.
Well - being wealthy is no guarantee of happiness.
Does that imply it is preferable to be poor?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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