Thursday, April 07, 2005

Another Contribution from the Brain Trust on the Right....

Colorado Gov. Bill Owens on Tuesday vetoed a bill requiring hospitals to provide information about emergency contraception to rape victims.

Hiding behind smoke & mirrors politico double speak, Owens says, "This bill does not give patients all the information that they deserve, nor does it safeguard basic freedom of conscience."

These ass-backwards conservative politicians make me crazy. This bill would have required a hospital to provide a victim, who's been sexually assaulted, with information about how to keep this attack from resulting in an unwanted pregnancy- how can anyone say that the fault of the bill is a lack of information???

Also, I think it's pretty important to note that the opponents of this bill are the same anti-choice politicos hemming and hawing about abortion. Doesn't anyone think that, maybe, just maybe, preventing unwanted pregnancies in the first place might reduce the number of abortions in any given state? I guess since this is the same demographic that also believes not putting condoms in schools is going to lead to less sex and less disease, that this is stupid question for me to ask.

But really- is pointing out faulty reasoning and huge disconnects in anti-choice logic maybe a good place to start when trying to reframe the conversation? It's as simple as saying to someone: "if your ultimate goal is to reduce the number of abortions in your state, wouldn't you think that making sex ed and contraceptives widely available might help you achieve this goal?" But then I worry that talking this way, especially about reducing the number of abortions, could be dangerously misinterpreted as conceding the high moral ground (cough, Hillary, cough).
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