Birth Control Pill That Stops Periods Wins FDA Approval
On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration “approved the first birth control pill that eliminates a woman’s monthly period.” Yesterday on Fox News’s Your World With Neil Cavuto, Leslee Unruh, president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, argued that this pill a “pesticide” that will make women “like men.” She called it an “attack on children and families,” ending the segment with shouts of, “I want more babies. More babies. We love babies.”
In the spirit of Conservatives not being happy unless they can whine about the “War on [insert name of your pet cause here]”, Our latest DUMB@$$ is now trying to convince us that we’re on the front lines in the War Against Babies and Children. Man, I had no idea that Big Government and Big Pharma were so heavily invested in population suppression. You’d think they’d be trying to find ways to increase the size of their future markets, but no, as Ms. DUMB@$$ tells us, we’re engaged in a fight for the right of women to bear a basket full of children. Big Pharma HATES babies…and they want to make women just like men. Personally, I think if women were trying to transform themselves, they should probably aim a bit higher.
Of course, when you’re President of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, you can afford to engage is such unsupported hyperbole, because the Bush Administration thinks the sun rises and sets over you. So, while you’re trying to force your ignorant, self-righteous, dominionist views on the majority of Americans who don’t think like you do, you can claim to be doing God’s work, because Lord know Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader © certainly thinks you are…and we all know that God speaks through him, right??
As Mary Alice Carr from NARAL pointed out, 98 percent of American women will use contraception at some point in their lives. No one is forcing women to use this form of birth control. This pill will not prevent women from ever having children, and will help women who find their periods too painful. Many medical professionals believe that “menstrual suppression could have some health benefits.”
Unruh led the fight for the “nation’s most sweeping abortion ban” in South Dakota in 2006, and her Abstinence Clearinghouse receives funding from the federal government. In 2001, Unruh said that she has received “nothing but support from the Bush administration.”
Hey, Ms. DUMB@$$ Unruh, here’s a suggestion: if you don’t believe in Lybrel, THEN DON’T TAKE IT. And how about you leave your know-it-all, self-righteous, Pollyana attitude out of the public discussion. Lord knows the quality of public discourse on this issue is already low enough without having you drag your holier-than-thou, God-speaks-through-me self-superiority into it.
UNRUH: This is a real war on women and war on children and it’s a gift to be able to have children. And our fertility is precious to us. And we do not need Big Pharma, National Abortion Rights Action League, who have had a war on children and on babies, to now come in with another drug and to play G-d.
OK, how about we start by losing the ignorant. overheated, self-righteous rhetoric. There’s no war on children, no war on babies, and NO ONE IS TRYING TO PLAY GOD. There’s enough of that going on in the White House these days. If anything, Ms.DUMB@$$ Unruh is guilty of staging a one-woman human wave assault on reason, decency, and common sense- never mind a woman’s right to exercise control over her own body. (If Unruh LOVES babies so much, then why don’t we hear her talking about adoption? No, what she loves is power and control. Babies just happen to be the weapon she wields in pursuit of that power and control.)
I can appreciate that Ms. Unruh doesn’t think Lybrel is a good thing. That’s a choice that she can make for herself. Despite her overheated, patently silly rhetoric, NO ONE is trying to force women to become “just like men.” All Lybrel does is provide women with yet another option when it comes to family planning and reproductive health. Unlike Ms. Unruh, not all women view themselves as baby-making machines. Yes, there are those who want nothing more to be a mother and raise children. More power to them; that’s their right and their choice. For those women who don’t choose that path, Lybrel simply offers them another choice, another option for taking control of their lives and their bodies. Why does that have to be viewed as a threat? Fewer women breeding potential Christian Conservatives? Hmm?
And if Ms. Unruh is so all-fired-up about her love for children and babies, then why doesn’t she adopt a few, or facilitate the adoption of children who need good homes and loving parents? Lord knows there are enough unwanted children out there who would love to have a home and a family…even if one family member is a DUMB@$$.
