Extreme Positions: When Birth Control Is Banned

According to a huffingtonpost.com post by Cristina Page, dated October 29th, there are several races across the country where candidates are staking their claims to anti-birth control positions. That's right! This is way beyond being anti-abortion, which might even be understandable in light of the last thirty years of propaganda. But to be against birth control is extreme, radically extreme.

Let's define some terms: 80% of voters who consider themselves anti-abortion support access to birth control. So to consider birth control--condoms, pills, long-lasting contraception--as somehow evil is ridiculous, even among those people who believe that abortion is wrong.

In Colorado, there is a ballot initiative, number 48, that aims to grant "personhood" to a fertilized egg. A Colorado House race is pitting a Republican who favors the initiative against a Democrat who doesn't. A fertilized egg as a person?

Washington State has a challenger for the position of governor who wants to allow pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control pills if such medication offends their conscience.
Why?

A Virginia House race also swirls around the radical idea that contraception is wrong. As do races in New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Ohio.

Read the article and then let's figure out how to end this madness. Seeing Sarah Palin's pregnant teenage daughter should be enough to remind us that we need to make sure that young people have access to medically accurate, and age appropriate, information about how their bodies work, and of course, access to affordable birth control.

More after the Obama Infomercial!!!