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Four Ways Obama's Birth Control Fail Hurts Young Women of Color

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Birth Control Works12/12/2011 5:36:03 pm PST

re: #30 imp_62

Honestly, this whole conversation has gone off the rails. I knew it probably would eventually. Read my first post again, please. Then accuse me of being anti-choice and whatever. Seriously. If you don’t want to address any of the points I make, then don’t. But please stop attacking me. Plan B is not Tylenol. Pregnancy is not cancer. Abortion is not a cure for HIV. We are talking at cross-purposes. I am debating public health, and you are talking politics at every bend.

Do NOT put words in my mouth. That is the worst kind of base debate tactic, borrowed straight from extremists of all shadings. Concern troll? Distrust my kids? Seriously?

I’m out. Last time I try to have an educated debate here.

Please don’t, imp_62. The whole point, IMHO, is to get the emotions out so WE CAN have a debate.

I think what is so frustrating about the HIV/STD concern is that it is so often used as a distraction from Contraception and Abortion. Let me also point out that HIV/STD is affects both genders —where Contraception and Abortion primarily affect the health of the woman only.

This leads us back the patriarchal society side of the argument that if it doesn’t concern men, it won’t be addressed. THIS is an often a mis-overlooked part of the argument that emotional internalized, but not intellectually —thus the strong emotional outburst from women arguing for their health.

We tend to have lived with the subtle societal and sometimes personal repression for so long that we don’t recognize it for what it is.

Also note that STD treatment has been around a lot longer than legal contraception and abortion. NO Supreme court cases were argued in it’s favor and it is not constantly under attack.