The proposed 2012 budget...

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

If you do the research, you'll find that the really hard-core "right to life" groups (at least here in the US) are not just anti-choice when it comes to abortion... they are anti-choice when it comes to any kind of birth control aside from complete abstinence or, for married couples, the rhythm method. Some of them will even admit that the abortion battle is just the first hurdle to be cleared in furthering their longterm agenda.

They tend to be particularly hostile to any form of birth control that can be used by a woman to prevent pregnancy without the "permission" of the father of any potential offspring, so condoms are usually somewhere further down on the list of things they want to do away with (or, rather, make impossible for the average person to obtain and use) - except when it comes to them being conveniently and cheaply available to individuals who wish to use them but who might not have the means or self-confidence to walk into a store and buy them.

At bottom it is all very much a part of the "every sperm is sacred" and "sex is for procreation only" and "you will have as many babies as God decides you will have" kind of thinking that pervades the radical religious right.

abortion services account for about 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s activities. That’s less than cancer screening and prevention (16 percent), STD testing for both men and women (35 percent), and contraception (also 35 percent). About 80 percent of Planned Parenthood’s users are over age 20, and 75 percent have incomes below 150 percent of the poverty line. Planned Parenthood itself estimates it prevents more than 620,000 unintended pregnancies each year, and 220,000 abortions. It’s also worth noting that federal law already forbids Planned Parenthood from using the funds it receives from the government for abortions.

Source.

Any lawmaker who was using Planned Parenthood as an obstacle to getting this budget passed is duplicitous lying scum.