Arrogant, zealous, and liars to boot
So I note the recent press releases out of the certain anti-abortion campaign have become even more mindlessly arrogant than is their usual demanding standard since the Thing from Crawford won re-election. Grandiose claims that Planned Parentood is 'massively out of step' with the electorate, based on the results of the popular vote, figure prominently.
I rather expect you can expect this to be the pattern for the next little while. Notwithstanding the obviously deep divisions in the US, and the fact that 55 million people voted for Kerry, versus the 58 million or so for Bush, the glazed-eyed thugs behind such campaigns are gonna push for the hard right line from the government, as though they were the only ones in the country, and those 55 million or so with differing opinions are simply invisible.
Dahlinks, the only things massively out of step right now are your attitudes and those of just about every competent health professional in the industrialized world. It's nice you've convinced yourself you're all so moral and such, and I do hope you enjoy dictating the lives of desperate unwed mothers throughout your nation for the next little while, but let's not lie to ourselves. Planned Parenthood has a quite large, quite respectable constituency, and a responsible, sensible attitude toward sexual health. You, on the other hand, are a coupla superstitious neanderthals who still seem to think writhin' about on the floor and speaking in tongues is a sensible course of therapy for AIDS (and yes, also with an alarmingly large constituency, but let's face it, if you keep up your current approach to deadly STDs, and that's only gonna last so long). Do let's keep all of this in perspective, here.
I rather expect you can expect this to be the pattern for the next little while. Notwithstanding the obviously deep divisions in the US, and the fact that 55 million people voted for Kerry, versus the 58 million or so for Bush, the glazed-eyed thugs behind such campaigns are gonna push for the hard right line from the government, as though they were the only ones in the country, and those 55 million or so with differing opinions are simply invisible.
Dahlinks, the only things massively out of step right now are your attitudes and those of just about every competent health professional in the industrialized world. It's nice you've convinced yourself you're all so moral and such, and I do hope you enjoy dictating the lives of desperate unwed mothers throughout your nation for the next little while, but let's not lie to ourselves. Planned Parenthood has a quite large, quite respectable constituency, and a responsible, sensible attitude toward sexual health. You, on the other hand, are a coupla superstitious neanderthals who still seem to think writhin' about on the floor and speaking in tongues is a sensible course of therapy for AIDS (and yes, also with an alarmingly large constituency, but let's face it, if you keep up your current approach to deadly STDs, and that's only gonna last so long). Do let's keep all of this in perspective, here.
posted by AJM at 6:03 p.m. (Permanent Link)
