Know Thine Enemy-Karen L. Brauer, Pharmacist for Life

[LiviaOlivia]

Riffle-Reality-Based Community Service
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Karen L. Brauer, Pharmacist for Life

"'Our group was founded with the idea of returning pharmacy to a healing-only profession. What's been going on is the use of medication to stop human life. That violates the ideal of the Hippocratic oath that medical practitioners should do no harm', said Karen L. Brauer, president of Pharmacists for Life, who was fired from a Kmart pharmacy in Delhi, Ohio, for refusing to fill birth control prescriptions." - Washington Post, March 28, 2005.

Karen Brauer (included in this nice Media Matters post) has presented to the media the image of a concerned professional dealing with ethical issues. But that's only one side of a woman who has a very political side, tinged with a vivid interest in the sexual lives and practices of people with political opinions different than her own.

Long before she hit the mainstream media as President of Pharmacists for Life International, Ms. Brauer was active on a conservative women's website, now essentally dormant. But you'll still find her self-portrait from December 1997 (updated in 2001) there, where she describes herself as "Born conservative. Kinda' lean towards the Republican party, but lately they are getting awfully liberal." She was a supporter of Alan Keyes for President in 2000.

To get the full flavor of Ms. Brauer's thoughts, however, nothing beats reading her posts to the Usenet newsgroup alt.politics.rightgrrl, where she was an active and outspoken participant. Here's a sample of her comments posted Nov 22 1998 as "Responsibility/Contraception" :

For all the NOW gal types who might be lurking.... See what the Domestic Farm Animal style Birth Control has gotten you? When you get pregnant, you did it to yourself. The man does not participate. It's not his fault. That little head works by remote control, and is totally disconnected from the big head. It's just a whackoff. That comes from drinking the water that ya'll have been peeing the hormones into..... hehe, just kidding). But that "environmental hazard" is one reason that B.C. pills are still illegal in Japan!!!

NOW gals, ya got what you wanted. Total autonomy. So don't ask some of these guys for child support. Thanks for screwing things up for women who want their kids to have a daddy.

I'm all for chastity requirements in the military uniform code of justice. Dishonorable discharge and loss of benefits for anyone caught having sex outside of marriage. Male or Female. Whaddaya think??? Wouldn't a chastity patrol be wild! ;-) Finally: constructive employment for voyeurs!! And I'm for no sex at all for people who cannot accept a baby. Not even a B.J., 'cause they don't deserve one.

Ms. Brauer saves most of her sexually explicit fantasies for President Bill Clinton, but she openly expresses her interest in the sexual life of anyone who supports Clinton too. In a post titled "Sexual McCarthyism: Dershowitz's Clinton Spin" she writes:

Doesn't stuff like this make you wonder about the sexual practices of Dershowitz and other Clinton supporters??

There is a political rag in Cincinnati which calls Clinton supporters and contributors "all those people who would not mind seeing the first Phallus in their own daughters' mouths". Very gross, but it sorta makes sense!! The circulation of this political publication, the Whistleblower, threatens to outstrip that of the local news papers. hehehe

But she spends time thinking about the sexual proclivities of Republicans, too:

more at:

http://riffle.blogspot.com/2005/04/karen-l-brauer-pharmacist-for-life.html

[flamingyouth]

1. Again, I ask, why isn't she at home, raising 10 or 12 kids?

I mean, being a traditional woman opposed to birth control and all...:shrug:

[Book Lover]

3. No, no, no

That's for the little folks, like you and me. She's on a mission, and everything must be sacrificed for her mission, even her own true womanly nature. *sniff* It's beautiful really.

(OK, I have to go yargh now. Excuse me.)

[Maat]

7. You are so right, Book Lover.

That is exactly how it works.

Look at whole lot of those Religious Rightie gals - bet they see their children a whole lot less than I do.

Like the woman I know, Mrs. Republican Family Conservative Christian Values; her kids barely recognize her, because she's out trying to make sure the rest of us don't have opportunities. This type of hyprocrisy is truly annoying.

I encourage everyone to live the lifestyle that is right for them; but they needn't pretend they live some ideal the rest of us can only aspire to.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. This sounds like something written by a stupid, rethug teenager.

And this is suppose to be a woman who has an education? My Lord, that shows you exactly where our educational system is at.

There is so much stupidity, I can not even figure out where to begin.

[beam me up scottie]

4. Agreed.

But then again, chimpy has a degree too.
Go figure.

Does she look like she might be related to mann coulter?

[HockeyMom]

5. The Pill

I not only took the Pill for 5 years before I was married (lived with future husband for 5 years), I also took the Pill for 5 years after we were marred before we wanted kids (save money for a house), couple of years IN BETWEEN kids too (physically not good too close together). Then my dear husband got a vasectomy. I continued to take the Pill for six months after his vasectomy as a safeguard (doctor's recommendation).

Yes, Karen, married women take the Pill TOO. Maybe YOU want 10 kids, but I certainly didn't want them. Why should I have to follow YOUR RELIGION?

[smoogatz]

6. What a peurile, monomaniacal, self-righteous idiot. *Obscene rant on.*

Dear Pharmacists of America:

I don't care about your fucking religious beliefs. What I care about right now is the fact that I'm standing here in Walgreen's/CVS/wherethefuckever, listening to this crappy muzak and waiting for your slow ass to give me my fucking pills so I can get the fuck out of here--that, and the fact that my so-called health insurance co-pay has gone through the roof since dumbass Bush became Resident. Don't read me no Bible verses. Don't give me no shit. Shut the fuck up and give me my fucking pills, or I will climb all 6'2", 200 lbs of my pissed-off whiteboy self over the fucking counter and get them myself, thank you very fucking much.

*obscene rant off*