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.

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More Trouble for First Time Voters--in Colorado

The House majority leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, and several of his Democratic colleagues said at a news conference that they were concerned about ensuring access to the polls for the estimated 44 million eligible voters who are between the ages of 18 and 29. Click here to read the Chronicle of Higher Education article.

The news conference came a day before a Congressional hearing on student voting rights and hours after a Republican county clerk in Colorado was criticized for falsely stating that students could not register to vote in Colorado if their parents had claimed them as dependents in another state. The clerk now says he was wrong, but the state’s Democratic Party chairwoman said the incorrect information had been posted on the Web site of Colorado College for the past six months.

Colorado this November has an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative, five employment measures that range from a right-to-work measure and a mandatory health insurance requirement, defining a fertilized egg as a person, a sales tax increase--in all fourteen ballot initiatives. As if that isn't confusing enough for anyone, including a first time voter.