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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums4 Ways Conservatives Are Fighting to Control Women's Sex Lives
http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/4-ways-conservatives-are-fighting-control-womens-sex-lives***SNIP
Republicans are fighting to keep women from accessing birth control.
Whether its Rush Limbaugh calling women who take birth control sluts or Mike Huckabee mansplaining why its actually empowering to deny women insurance coverage for contraception, one point remains clear: Conservatives want to enshrine religiously defined norms about sexuality into law.
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Mainstream news outlets are still running editorials chastising women for having sex before marriage.
Susan Patton is a joke, but shes not the only person arguing in mainstream publications that women who have sex outside of marriage are setting themselves up for disaster and heartbreak. (Hi, Ross Douthat!)
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Abstinence-only education ties girls worth to their virginity.
In the United States right now, only 22 states require that schools teach comprehensive sex education. Of those states, only 19 have laws in place to ensure that what is being taught under that label is medically accurate. And a total of 35 states allow parents to opt out of sex ed classes on behalf of their children.
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Police departments and others in the criminal justice system blame victims of sexual assault for the violence committed against them.
As shocking as the allegations were that the Patrick Henry College dean of student life told a female victim of sexual harassment that she should think about her clothing and the kinds of ideas it puts in mens minds in response to this disclosure, victim-blaming happens regularly among law enforcement officials and others in the criminal justice system who have also been entrusted with handling such cases.
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4 Ways Conservatives Are Fighting to Control Women's Sex Lives (Original Post)
xchrom
Feb 2014
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. K&R....
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)2. K & R
Oh, and ...
wandy
(3,539 posts)3. I don't often reply to this type of op, and there is a reason.....
It makes no sense.
Might be just the way I see things but.
The conservative "war on Women".
The conservative "war on LGBT".
It's just plain insanity, or a need for dominance, or fear and self hatred within themselves.
Whether its Rush Limbaugh calling women who take birth control sluts or Mike Huckabee mansplaining why its actually empowering to deny women insurance coverage for contraception, one point remains clear:
It's clear that this type of thinking makes about as much sense as operating a Ham Radio in a swimming pool.
What is wrong with "these people". We have so many other things to concern ourselves about.
I am not complaining that the OP points out this foolishness.
I am complaining that conservatives force us to spend so much time on things that should have been a "Done Deal" a long time ago.