assholeofday:Pete Kelly, Asshole of the Day for March 24, 2014by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)Do
assholeofday:Pete Kelly, Asshole of the Day for March 24, 2014by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)Do conservative men have any idea how birth control works? That sounds like a ridiculous question since birth control is taken by such a huge majority of the female population in their reproductive years. And yet I feel I have to ask, because they really don’t seem to sometimes.Whether it’s Rush Limbaugh thinking that Sandra Fluke has to take one pill every time she has sex or Mike Huckabee saying women needing Uncle Sugar to pay for their birth control pills because “they can’t control their libido”, it’s like they really don’t know that most birth control is something you have to take every single day in order for it to be effective, and not just on the days you have sex.And that leads to Alaska Sen. Pete Kelly saying this about birth control when discussing his plan to have pregnancy tests in bars:Q. Would you support doing the same thing with birth control? Making free birth control available in the bars?A. No. Because the thinking is a little opposite.This assumes that if you know (you are pregnant) you’ll act responsibly. Birth control is for people who don’t necessarily want to act responsibly.I’m not going to tell them what to do. Or help them do it. That’s their business. But if we have a pregnancy because someone just doesn’t know, that’s probably a way we can help.Q. But isn’t the act of using birth control, in itself, acting responsibly? A. Maybe, maybe not.…That’s about a level of social engineering that we don’t want to get into. All we want to do is make sure people are informed. They’ll make the right decision.While I’d love to hear what his theory about birth control being a “level of social engineering” is, the part I’m focusing on is his statement that “Birth control is for people who don’t necessarily want to act responsibly.” Birth control is FOR people who act responsibly— these are women who plan and take responsibility for when they get pregnant and by whom. Women who are taking action to avoid having a baby that they can’t afford or care for the way they would like to at the current moment. If that’s not responsibility, then what is?But Sen. Kelly seems to think that taking birth control is an indication of irresponsible behavior. And so we can only conclude that he thinks a woman having sex for any other purpose than having a child is irresponsible. And for that, he is the Asshole of the Day.It is Pete Kelly’s first time as Asshole of the Day.Full story: Anchorage Daily News -- source link
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