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LIES GOP TELL ABOUT WOMEN'S BODIESEarlier this year, a New Hampshire lawmaker came up with a new reason the government should not require health insurance companies to provide contraception.
"As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Brownstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?" state Rep. Jeanine Notter (R) asked a male representative at the hearing, the Merrimack Patch reports.
http://merrimack.patch.com/articles/merrimack-rep-claims-the-pill-has-been-linked-to-prostate-cancer
Abortion Causes Breast Cancer
The New Hampshire House in 2012 passed a bill that would require doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure can cause breast cancer. Here is an excerpt from the bill, sponsored by Notter:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/abortion-breast-cancer-new-hampshire-_n_1345771.html
Birth Control Is A Sex Pill
Rush Limbaugh showed he has no understanding of how birth control pills work when he attacked Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student barred from testifying as a Democratic witness at a congressional hearing about the Obama administration's contraception policy. Limbaugh called Fluke a "slut" for needing lots of birth control to manage her sex life.
"She wants to be paid to have sex," Limbaugh said. "She's having so much sex she can't afford
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1311640.html
Abortion Industry Is 'Selling Abortions'
A Republican state legislator in Arizona wrote in an email to a constituent earlier this year that she wanted to force women seeking abortions to watch the procedure first.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/abortion-bill-arizona-terri-proud-witness-email_n_1368386.html
"Personally I'd like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a 'surgical procedure,'" state Rep. Terri Proud (R) wrote. The constituent responded by email that she was "speechless" and after a baffling exchange with Proud, released the emails to the media. Facing national outrage, Proud released the emails.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/abortion-bill-abortion-constituent-email-watching-
abortion_n_1376389.html?ref=politics
Women Can't Get Pregnant From Rape
Just before Idaho's Senate passed a mandatory ultrasound bill in March, a Republican bill sponsor made some startling comments about abortion and rape.
"Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this," said state Sen. Chuck Winder (R). "I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/chuck-winder-rape-abortions_n_1366994.html
Prenatal Testing Leads To Abortion
Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum made prenatal testing a campaign issue in February when he declared the tests are designed to "cull the ranks of the disabled in our society" by encouraging abortions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/rick-santorum-prenatal-testing_n_1293153.html#s584044&title=On_Contraception
"Amniocentesis does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortions," Santorum, who has a severely disabled daughter, said on "Face the Nation." "That is a fact."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/rick-santorum-prenatal-testing-encourages-abortions/2012/02/19/gIQAvmZeNR_blog.html
HPV Vaccine Causes Retardation
Back when Rick Perry was campaigning for president, his rivals attacked him for signing an executive order mandating the human papillomavirus vaccine for young girls, and misinformation quickly spread. Michele Bachmann insinuated that the vaccine causes mental retardation, while Santorum spoke out against "having little girls inoculated at the force and compulsion of the government."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/13/rick-perry-hpv-vaccine_n_961159.html
Plan B Causes Abortions
The debate over the Obama administration's contraception policy has yielded some puzzling claims about birth control and Plan B. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) addressed the House in February, urging his colleagues to reverse Obama's mandate for health insurance coverage of "abortion-inducing drugs:"
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/08/boehner-pledges-congress-will-overturn-new-obama-mandate/
Your Fetus Is Just Fine
The Arizona Senate passed a bill in March to protect doctors from "wrongful birth" lawsuits -- effectively allowing them to withhold information that may lead a patient to get an abortion. HuffPost's John Celock reports:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/wrongful-birth-bill-arizona-senate-abortion-bill_n_1335117.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/kansas-anti-abortion-bill_n_1258185.html
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Segami
(14,923 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)that have had an abortion have the exact same rate of breast cancer as virginal Nuns? And for the same reason? Oh, yes, it's true.
Why? because pregnancies continued passed the 5th month or so affords some protection from breast cancer. Having more kids gets you more protection, up to 5 or 6 kids, then the protection levels off.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)Nursing a child is a form of birth control.
Rhythm method really really works.
Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. Abstain too much, rape may occur. Just another form of conception.
Aspirin between the knees cheap contraceptive.
A group of crusty old GOP men know what is best for our vagina's...
meow2u3
(24,784 posts)Paul Ryan needs to be dragged to the vet to be castrated!!!!!!!!!!!!
Segami
(14,923 posts)is set on shielding ' the boy ' by ever changing the discourse and keeping him focused on his talking points. This abortion issue will become his cross to carry.
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