But in related news that does not remind me so much of my current baby-resentment, yesterday President(!) Obama lifted the Global Gag Rule. I'm pretty excited about this, even though it has been lifted and passed several times in the past. The rule (which says that no U.S. funding can be given to any international family planning organizations that provide, recommend, mention, or pretty much even think about abortion) was first put in place by Ronald Reagan, was repealed by Bill Clinton, was put back into effect by George W, and now was repealed again by Obama. So I guess it's somewhat of a tradition to toss back and forth between parties...
Anyway, this is no doubt great news for women and healthcare providers around the world, and this morning I read an article about a somewhat related issue that I think is pretty cool. One proposal (one out of a shit-ton I would imagine) of Obama's $825 billion stimulus package
"would expand Medicaid family planning services to all 50 states [and] would enable people who don’t qualify for Medicaid to receive the family planning services, including contraceptives" (emphasis mine).
In addition to being, ummm, ♪awe-some♫, this sounds pretty logical, eh? Making sure everyone has access to some kind of birth control? Less unwanted pregnancies is a good thing, no?
So here's this article titled "Contraceptives not the type of stimulus Boehner can believe in". Just the title annoys me a little bit, like youre supposed to read it and think "Contraception?? to stimulate the economy? That wacky Obama, har har what crazy thing will he come up with next?" And the "(blank) we can believe in" joke is pretty played out as far as I'm concerned.
But yeah, Joe Boehner is the House Minority Leader. You'd think he'd be all for this proposal since it would cause less unwanted pregnancies, and therefore less abortions... which is what those fucking republicans are always whining about, right?
Anyway, I think this article kind of takes this issue and Boehner's thoughts on it out of context. I think this is just one tiny part of Obama's plan, and I'm sure Boehner had other concerns besides this...
But.. while were on it, can you please take a look at Congressman Boehner?
He is cracking me up! When I saw this picture I was like "oh man he is really not a fan of Obama" because that is quite the evil eye...
...then I saw him looking like he's about to puke all over Nancy Pelosi and figured he's just not a fan of Democrats. But alas...
I think he feels the same way about Bush! Finally I realized that it's just this guys face.
That's just how it looks. Anyway I've been LOLing all morning over this guy so I just needed to share this. And for good luck, here's one more. I have nooo idea why he is crying.
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