Mike Lester for August 02, 2022

“HE WHO HATH NOT A UTERUS SHOULD SHUT THE F*CKETH UP!” ~ Fallopians 13:13

Honest Government Ad | US Supreme Court :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL5LaLT2BJM

This is true, but:

a) No method of birth control is 100% effective.b) Not all sex is consensual.c) Not all decisions about sex are made rationally (some are made when a person is not sober)d) Many of the same people who wish to outlaw abortion also seek to outlaw birth control.e) not all pregnancies go well and sometimes the fetus is severely damaged.

Since a woman bears all of the risk and has to do all of the work, shouldn’t it be her choice whether to carry a pregnancy to term?

Hey little mikey, a couple of questions: how do you get a rapist to wear a condom, and how do you get reactionary mothers to allow their underage daughters to use an IUD or the pill if the rapists won’t use a condom? What about women whose pregnancies have serious life threatening medical problems? We already know that some states will not allow a ten year old rape victim to get an abortion.

Kansas, one of the most conservative states in the union, put abortion on the ballot. The voters voted to keep abortion legal. I think every state should put it on the ballot, but the GQP will block any attempt at democracy at the state level.

The only thing missing on those billboards is ‘Burma Shave’. The GQP forgot its catchy jingle, and Still can’t understand the blowback.

Except that your line of signs contains a fallacy, Mike. Since the collapse of Roe, now pharmacies and convenience stores that used to sell contraceptives no longer can because certain employees are deciding that they now have permission to refuse to sell those items based upon “conscience” or “personal preference” or “religious convictions”.

What would be a much better representation of actuality is if all the wording on each of the signs had a big red NO (ᴓ) symbol painted over it. Even better would be that modification plus the capital letters, in red, in the lower right corner, of RNC.

But there IS a solution. Pharmacy managers, or the pharmacy chain companies, can specify in employment ads and employment contracts that selling all items stocked in the store is a Bonified Occupational Qualification (BOQ). That simple change bars anyone who has such personal qualms about sales of these items from being employed there. This gives the store management or owners the right to instantly discharge any employee refusing to sell OTC contraceptives or fill and sell prescriptions for either contraceptives or birth control items. It also gives owners/companies the right to fire any store manager who permits such refusals to go unchallenged.

Like it or not, the prescription of birth control items falls under general medicine^. Those items and medications are recognized and used for purposes other just birth control. Leaving it up to a non-medically-certified store clerk to make medical necessity decisions is a violation of the Fair Trade laws and CDC regulations. NO person who has absolutist views about dispensing or selling such items has any business working behind the prescription counter of a pharmacy or running a cash register in one.

I hope the RNC is proud of, and happy about, costing 10s of thousands of pharmacy employees their jobs.

Another example of how the RNC cares only about sound bytes that create consternation and garner votes … … … NOT about you.

Of course prevention is better than cure, but things do still go wrong so banning the cure is stupid. Anyway I thought Rethuglicans were against birth control?

^ general medicine – For instance, birth control pills are often prescribed for women who have weight issues, and for certain skin conditions, and for psychiatric or factual considerations such as inordinate fear of pregnancy or rape. Condoms were originally designed and used to help prevent transmission of disease, and still are used so.

These are matters of personal decision regarding personal health. They do NOT impact anyone other than the person who is entirely entitled to make the decision. Therefore, they should NOT be decided, discussed, or even considered by anyone else.

Efforts by a substantially tiny minority group of citizens to unilaterally prevent the sale or use of such materials is unconstitutional and unconscionable because it invades and violates privacy of home, marriage, freedom of social association, right to security of person, right to health, opinionated (non-legal) condemnation to involuntary servitude, freedom from abuse, right to happiness, and so many, many other aspects of our Constitution.

Regarding abortion, Roe had a dozen reviews and for almost 50 years was upheld in all those cases. Overturning it denies women the right to make the most critical decision of their lives: whether or not to have a child.

I am left to wonder what kind of uproar will ensue when this tiny minority tries to enforce its largely religion-based view of “God’s Will” on males. You know, by barring the male right to have a vasectomy, even as their next step is to bar women from having a tubal ligation. As a male who has had one, I would be outraged if some bible-thumper accosted me (or ANY male) for ‘interfering’ with God’s Will that I must procreate, and that they have the right to pass laws that ensure I do – and to incarcerate me if I refuse. Because that kind of theocratic absolutism is where we are headed.

If the baby doesn’t work out, she should be allowed to kill it up until at least one year old. In the case of rape or incest, she should be able to kill it up any time until 21 years old. She can make a much more informed decision once she sees how it turns out.

Eventually, states will rule the freedom to do what’s best, will be returned!

Birth control has steadily brought down the rate of abortion. I don’t know if there are any abortion laws that prohibit an abortion even the case of rape or incest (which are a tiny, miniscule fraction of abortion). Then there is the abortion pill which is effective up to 10 or 12 weeks and is easily obtained, even in states that have strict abortion laws. Then there’s always the paid abortion vacation to another state that’s friendlier to killing unborn babies. Basically, abortion has become slightly less convenient in some states, but if you want one, you can get one.

Sex, like voting, like many other decisions and actions, carries consequences. Life is full of things that are not as easy and carefree as we might like them to be.

Good. All roads lead to Kansas. Give every woman a pair of ruby slippers just in case.

and of course those rapists will use condoms!

So true, less than eight dollars for 12 back on Amazon, four and a half stars with over 25000 reviews. See Trojan Condom Sensitivity Ultra Thin Spermicidal, 12 Count .

Curious to see what Lester has to say in a future “installment” WRT the Biden administration’s elimination of Ayman al-Zawahiri. He spent a good month’s worth of strips last August itshaying on the administration’s decision to honor Trump’s deadline for a US pull out. Now that we’ve finally taken out the No. 2 man behind bin Laden, I’m sure he’ll be as silent as a mouse and will proudly have the balls of one as well.

those that have un-protected sex to kill babies are murders

You don’t play the game, Mike, you don’t make the rules.

Clarence Thomas, Marsha Blackburn and several other Repubs want to allow states to ban birth control. The decisions about BC are based on the same right to privacy as Roe.