To answer your question, No, I cannot believe this bullshit.

wow. that is some scary shit.

I'm trying to figure out who the best folks are to contact to oppose this douche

Maybe the first female Speaker of the House would be a good place to start. Nancy needs to make a giant stink about this one.

Sigh. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Personally, I think that Rep. Waxman should be the one to get all over this in his new role as chair of the Government Reform committee. Let's see how committed we are to this whole accountability thing.

What can we do? I'm scared enough about this shit to make it a personal crusade...hey, we have enough to worry about without government crazoids designing padlocks for our cunts. If anyone has any suggestions...let's get something going!

When I have finished growling in frustration, I will be writing to many, many people about this.

He'd get more trust encounters if he just shaved the moustache.

Naaaaaiiiiiice!

Borat is the perfect choice for any position involving "sexy time" and "making romance inside of" women.

Yeah, I'm totally craving an oxytocin fix. That shit is the bomb, yo.

Or: what the fuck? No, seriously... WHAT THE FUCK?

Talk2Action has lots of other scary details... including his connection with the ubiquitous Leslee Unruh.

Just more confirmation that GWB is the worst president ever. I'm becoming numb to his insanity.

looks like i'll never have a personal bond with anyone. damn!

And we thought hiring a horse trainer to handle FEMA was bad. Apparently GWB is completely incapable of hiring anyone for a job that's actually, you know, qualified to do it.

What next, a fox to guard the henhouse?

wow that is is stupid! Oxytocin is a non-sterioid hormone. It dosent even enter the brain. Its created by a gene, and unless that gene was distroyed, or one didnt have it in the first place, you would have it, and it wouldnt run out. Hormones control lots more than emotions and our body wouldnt be able to function properly without them, so what kind of sense would it make to 'run out'? Its impossible because genes cause protines to make ribosomes! that stuff never stops unless the cell dies!
(im a science major)
-Kaili

Does he realize that his crap theory means that massive amounts of oxytocin are lost forever in raising children? That could imply that each consecutive child would be less loved or that eventually one kid would not be loved at all. Not much of a case for keeping the "old muffler" - why raise a child that you'll never love? Unless of course you are a Quiverfull Mom gestating God's artillery.
Fucking absurd!
Thanks for the link Ann.

Like looking at an old "muff"ler, huh?

But I thought fetuses were PEEEEPOLE!!

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And wouldn't this theory also imply that every time a committed Christian couple has sex, they also wear down their oxytocin supply? What a dope.

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That could imply that each consecutive child would be less loved or that eventually one kid would not be loved at all.

Yes! Contrariwise, shut-ins and agoraphobics, bonding with only a few rare visitors, are the hap-hap-HAPpiest people in the world. Yippee.

There may not be an official confirmation procedure, but that doesn't mean that smart, strategic, and well thought out opposition won't make a difference. Are we all truly so numb to the needs of others that the blatant mishandling of a government service for POOR people doesn't merit revolt even in the internet?! It doesn't have to be doomed. It can be smart. It can be planned. The right people need to pull strings, celebrities should get involved. It might not have worked with Bolton, but the Dems didn't have Congress then either. Just a thought...I know it's a tough battle; I get frustrated too though.

I used to live in Massachusetts and also know that A many of A Women's Concern's centers are located in areas of Boston with higher poverty and higher percentages of minorities (Roxbury and Dorchester). The closest Planned Parenthood to women living in these areas is in Allston, right off the Boston University campus. My public transportation this is at least a 45 minute trip, because also their are few train lines in these areas, only buses.........coincidence, I think not.

I've also tangoed with their sidewalk counselors many a time outside PP.

I clicked on the link to the article about Keroack's presentation in the Lousiana abstinence newsletter. Wow.

Wikipedia was the first. fucking. reference.

I think that says it all about the "scientific merit" of the abstinence movement.

We have been preaching the "safe sex" message to teeenagers for how many years now and apparently it is STILL not getting through bc kids are still getting pregnant, so personally I do not see anything wrong with spending a little money to teach kids to abstain from sex. At least if you look at the statistics, abstinence education works.

Taxpayers' dollars have gone to planned parenthood far too long and the message just isn't getting through. Aside from that, some parents do NOT believe in the sex education their children are receiving in the schools. Therefore, it is only fair to offer kids another alternative. If the government is already providing Planned Parenthood with the funding they need to push their agenda, what is wrong with offering crisis pregnancy centers funding so that they can push theirs.

Also don't you think that having PP in the schools is a conflict of interest? Afterall, the do SELL abortions. So what BETTER place to start grooming women for abortions but in the schools? After all, they are making a great deal of money by selling abortions, are they not. Many of the counselors also make a commission based on the number of abortions they "sell." Again, a conflict of interest.

CPCs do NOT make any money when they counsel women. They offer free services. Therefore, there is no conflict of interest. They are also there to support women whether they choose to keep their babies or choose to abort them. PP simply rushes them out the back door, and never sees them again, unless of course there is a problem or the woman is back again for another abortion.

If PP was NOT so threatened by CPCs, this article would have never been written. Don't we all deserve to hear both sides of the "issue." It only takes a little common sense to realize that the reason PP is so threatened is bc they will LOSE money. Just like in any business, when someone comes along and takes "business" away from them, they immediately become threatened.

As far as oxytocin is concerned, the author of the article needs to do a little more research bc the interpretation of Dr. Keroak's explanation of oxytocin is simply inaccurate.

In terms, of "lying" to people, PP has been lying to women for years. For example, there have been cases where they have told women their babies do not have a heartbeat, when in fact a FETUS' (latin for "Little Person") heart starts beating between 18-21 days; not WEEKS: DAYS. And yet, if you do your research you will find that abortion clinics have actually told women their baby does NOT have a heartbeat.

Also, the abortion industry is highly unregulated. Do your research and you will find that there are physicians who have been BANNED from the medical practice who still perform abortions. Abortion clinics have women sign documents stating IF something should go wrong, they are NOT liable. This piece of paper is just that: a piece of paper; not worth the money it is written on. IF a woman should get hurt during an abortion, she has EVERY right to sue the physician who performed the abortion. So, if you want to talk about DECEPTION, that is deception at its finest.

I have spoken to many former abortionists who owned clinics that stated many times they did NOT even sterilize their equipment. And they continue to get away with their UNSANITARY conditions bc abortion clinics are NOT regulated and are NOT held to the same standards as regular medical facilities. This is bc abortion has become a political issue, when it is really a health issue.

Another example is that of ambulances pulling up to abortion clinics and are told to turn there sirens off bc they are afraid of scaring women out of having abortions. I thought abortion was a choice? If a woman CHOOSES NOT to have an abortion, then what is the problem?

So what if there are Crisis Pregnancy Centers out there giving women the information they need to make an INFORMED decision about abortion. I suppose it is okay as long as she CHOOSES to have an abortion. However, if she CHOOSES to keep her baby after seeing the baby on an ultrasound (and about 80% of women do CHOOSE to keep their baby after seeing them on the ultrasound bc ultrasounds do NOT lie, then there seems to be a problem.

I have found that many PRO CHOICE people are more interested in the LAW than they are about the women and men who are impacted by abortion. I once asked a PRO CHOICE friend of mine, if she would like to donate a gift for a baby shower of a woman who had CHOSEN to keep her baby. She said she did NOT want to donate bc the woman had gone through a crisis pregnancy and for whatever reason she thought that would be supporting the CPC. This sent me the message loud and clear that she would only be supportive of a woman if she CHOSE the have an abortion, BUT if she CHOOSES to keep the baby, where are all the PRO CHOICE agencies then??? After all, these women made a CHOICE, the just chose to KEEP their baby, not abort it.

I will close with this, PLEASE tell me how abortion has HELPED women? Do some more research and you will find that 70% of the women involved in the pro life movement are post abortive. Some of them have had 3 to 4 abortions, but at some point they came to terms with the impact abortion had on them. And obviosuly it wasn't a good one, otherwise they would not be volunteering their time at a crisis pregancy center.

Just keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, as you are reading these articles, that there is A LOT of money being made by selling abortions as well as contraception.

If you would like to learn more about what abortion REALLY is, take a look at the pictures, unlike Planned Parenthood or anyone you would like to deem as liars, the pictures do NOT lie. If you want to talk about "scarey shit" click on the link.
http://www.priestsforlife.org/resources/photosbyage/index.htm#thumbnails

ok ms. mother teresa priests for life,

i think abstinence should be part of comprehensive sex education which over 80 percent of americans support and studies show that comprehensive sex education is the most efffective means of preventing unwanted pregnancies.

A new study says that most Americans favor comprehensive sex ed (you know, the kind that tells the truth) over abstinence-only bullshittery.

Comprehensive sex education, which emphasizes the benefits of abstinence while also teaching about contraception and disease-prevention methods, has been proven to reduce rates of teen pregnancy and STD infection.

In pushing an “abstinence only� agenda, however, the Bush Administration has consistently distorted the scientific evidence about what works in sex education. Administration officials have never acknowledged that abstinence-only programs have not been proven to reduce sexual activity, teen pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.[3] Instead, HHS has changed performance measures for abstinence-only education to make the programs appear successful, censored information on effective sex education programs, and appointed to a key panel an abstinence-only proponent with dubious credentials.

The Abstinence-only sex education is not as effective as Abstinence-plus, or comprehensive, programs that seek to educate on contraception and protection against sexually transmitted disease as well as stress the importance of abstinence. Such programs are far more successful and may even inspire a postponement of the first sexual experience, and may contribute towards bringing down the frequency of sex and unprotected sex, and even reduce the number of sexual partners.

While there is no doubt that this guy is batshit crazy, and also that GWB is obviously scratching someone's back with this appointment ... isn't the real question why we have this position in the first place? Do I really want government promoting their version of sexual truth on the populace, especially with 100s of millions to do so? When we create these sort of programs, aren't we just asking for someone like GWB to appoint some nutcase?

Well, well, well -- it seems that Cooper has no understanding of what he speaks. Cooper, do you know there is not ONE federal dollar spent on any type of sexuality education other than the fraudulent abstinence-only variety so beloved by the cabal in D.C. and those like the evangelical leader Ted Haggard. Organizations like Planned Parenthood raise funds from private donors and foundations to fund educational efforts. The federal dollars for Title X family planning only funds annual exams and birth control. Guess who had the foresight to start Title X Cooper? Guess who thought that poor women needed access to the same medical care as women of means? Guess who thought that poor women might be able to have better lives and afford their children better lives by controlling the size and spacing of their families? It was Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush. Oh how far the Republicans have come!

Abstinence only promoters and crisis pregnancy centers push ideology over facts. Funny, I though Christians believed to lie was to sin. I guess when the truth conflicts with your dogma then the lie is for God.

And in regard to your claim that Planned Parenthood has had no effect upon the reproductive health of our country – patent lie. The teen unintended birth rate and subsequent abortion rates have been falling drastically. They reached new lows under Clinton. Unfortunately this trend seems to be reversing -- see a correlation?

In a free, democratic society one much chose to do the moral thing – provide citizens with facts through education, and access to health care that would afford them the chance to avoid unintended and unwanted consequences. This is called PREVENTION. It seems that Cooper wants to assert his morality instead of doing the moral thing.

Funny how the Bush Admin. had a report suppressed that revealed that nations where abortion is illegal have just as high, if not higher, abortion rates as those countries where it is safe and legal.

Indeed, Velouria. Here are some clips about the extreme dangers of illegal abortion.

Nicaragua Bans Abortion/Latin America has the world’s strictest laws on abortion. But that does not discourage it. Latin America also has the world’s highest abortion rates, averaging nearly one per woman over the course of her reproductive lifetime. (NYT)

One in four of the world’s women—and half of the women in the developing world—live in countries that severely restrict or block their ability to obtain a legal abortion. However, research shows that the legality of abortion in a country has little bearing on whether or not abortions take place. Some of the world’s lowest abortion rates are found in the countries with the most liberal abortion laws; by contrast, countries where the procedure is severely restricted often have high rates. For example, in Peru and Chile, where abortion is severely restricted, the procedure occurs at rates of 52 and 45 per 1,000 women aged 15–44, respectively. By comparison, even in the United States, which has one of the highest abortion rates in the developed world, the rate is less than half the rate in Peru.
Thus, abortion continues to occur in countries where it is illegal—but it is often clandestine and unsafe. Thirteen percent of the 500,000 deaths worldwide from pregnancy-related causes each year are associated with unsafe abortion; in Latin America, the proportion is as high as 21%. In some developing countries, women suffering from complications of illegal abortion account for two of every three maternity beds in large urban hospitals, consuming as much as one-half of obstetrics and gynecology budgets. (Guttmacher Institute)

In Nicaragua, one of the hemisphere’s poorest countries, the maternal and infant mortality rates are among the highest in the region. Unsafe abortion is a significant — and arguably the most preventable — contributor to Nicaragua’s maternal mortality rate, causing 16 percent of all maternal deaths. Even with strict restrictions, approximately 32,000 abortions occur each year, only a handful of which are legal and safe (six in 2002). (IPAS)

Too Bad George Dubya's mother didn't practice abstinence.

Too bad Barbara Bush's mother didn't practice abstinence. She's the Don Corleone in the Bush Crime Family.

Oh, Teresa, you're so full of nonsense. I'll take it step by step, until I get tired.

"We have been preaching the "safe sex" message to teeenagers for how many years now and apparently it is STILL not getting through bc kids are still getting pregnant, so personally I do not see anything wrong with spending a little money to teach kids to abstain from sex."At least if you look at the statistics, abstinence education works.

And for how many hundreds of years has the Church been exerting itself to preach premarital abstinence? That would be hundreds of years. And yet...people haven't stopped. People never stopped. Perhaps your defintion of "works" is different from mine, but taking the long view, I'd say that safe sex practices are far more successful than abstinence-only propaganda.

"Taxpayers' dollars have gone to planned parenthood far too long and the message just isn't getting through."

The message that parenthood should be planned isn't getting through? So much for all those sales of contraceptives that you decry in later paragraphs. Seems to me that the message is getting through loud and clear: you don't have to have a baby if you don't want to.

" Aside from that, some parents do NOT believe in the sex education their children are receiving in the schools. Therefore, it is only fair to offer kids another alternative."

Sex education should be about teaching facts. The facts are that contraception works. That may conflict with some parents' moral beliefs, but the fact remains. If their moral beliefs alone aren't enough to sway their children, do they really think that keeping them in ignorance is the better option?

"If the government is already providing Planned Parenthood with the funding they need to push their agenda, what is wrong with offering crisis pregnancy centers funding so that they can push theirs"

What are you talking about? Planned Parenthood gets federal funding to "push their agenda"? Planned Parenthood gets federal funding in the form of Medicaid payments because they provide health care. "Crisis pregnancy centers" don't. If a pregnant woman comes to Planned Parenthood, she can have an abortion; she can also obtain prenatal care.

"Also don't you think that having PP in the schools is a conflict of interest? Afterall, the do SELL abortions. So what BETTER place to start grooming women for abortions but in the schools? After all, they are making a great deal of money by selling abortions, are they not. Many of the counselors also make a commission based on the number of abortions they "sell." Again, a conflict of interest."

Really, where are you getting this nonsense? PP counselors make "commissions" based on how many abortions they get women to have? You've completely lost touch with reality. PP doesn't make huge amounts of money: it is a not-for-profit. They do not "sell" abortions. They provide all manner of health care for women, including, as mentioned above, prenatal care. Get a grip on reality.

"CPCs do NOT make any money when they counsel women. They offer free services. Therefore, there is no conflict of interest. They are also there to support women whether they choose to keep their babies or choose to abort them."

But there is a conflict of interest: they're not offering nonjudgmental counseling to women. They're pushing their own anti-abortion agenda. Tell me, have you ever spoken to a PP counselor?

"PP simply rushes them out the back door, and never sees them again, unless of course there is a problem or the woman is back again for another abortion."

IF PP has to rush people out a back door, it's because their front doors are under siege by people who use their beliefs as an excuse to harrass women. Tell me, does any doctor you know call up her patients after their visit unless the patient calls in first? Why would PP?

"It only takes a little common sense to realize that the reason PP is so threatened is bc they will LOSE money. Just like in any business, when someone comes along and takes "business" away from them, they immediately become threatened."

Again, PP is a not-for-profit. Look it up.

"As far as oxytocin is concerned, the author of the article needs to do a little more research bc the interpretation of Dr. Keroak's explanation of oxytocin is simply inaccurate."

And should his work ever be accepted by any peer-reviewed journals, I'll be happy to give it the time of day. Until then, it occupies the same position in my mind as any other right-wing pseudo-scientific bull.

All right. I'm getting bored now, so I'm going to start skipping a little.

"FETUS' (latin for "Little Person")"

Ah, the etymology argument. Well, if that's what it means in Latin, I guess you must be right. In Latin, by the way, "vagina" means "sheath." Should I start putting swords in mine?

"Abortion clinics have women sign documents stating IF something should go wrong, they are NOT liable. This piece of paper is just that: a piece of paper; not worth the money it is written on. IF a woman should get hurt during an abortion, she has EVERY right to sue the physician who performed the abortion. So, if you want to talk about DECEPTION, that is deception at its finest."

Hmm. I had to sign a similar statement before I got my wisdom teeth out. Is the entire dental industry part of the evil abortion cabal? Nah. It's a standard release form for all surgery.

"I have spoken to many former abortionists who owned clinics that stated many times they did NOT even sterilize their equipment."

Oh, right. You seem like exactly the kind of person that women's health clinic owners confide in.

"This is bc abortion has become a political issue, when it is really a health issue."

Ah, finally something we agree on.

"Another example is that of ambulances pulling up to abortion clinics and are told to turn there sirens off bc they are afraid of scaring women out of having abortions."

Again, what are you talking about? Unless a woman has been injured in some way, she wouldn't be arriving at an abortion clinic in an ambulance, and if she were so deeply injured, she would be going to a hospital. Abortion is an elective procedure. I've done clinic defense. I've seen women arrive on foot, by bus, by car, and in cabs. Nobody has ever arrived in an ambulance. You're just making shit up, now.

"So what if there are Crisis Pregnancy Centers out there giving women the information they need to make an INFORMED decision about abortion."

Really? You call propaganda, lies, and pressure "information"?

"I once asked a PRO CHOICE friend of mine, if she would like to donate a gift for a baby shower of a woman who had CHOSEN to keep her baby. She said she did NOT want to donate bc the woman had gone through a crisis pregnancy and for whatever reason she thought that would be supporting the CPC."

Perhaps she just found your self-righteous assumption that she should give a shower gift to a woman she had never met to be irritating.

"BUT if she CHOOSES to keep the baby, where are all the PRO CHOICE agencies then??? After all, these women made a CHOICE, the just chose to KEEP their baby, not abort it."

Well, as I've said, PP is right there to provide prenatal care, as are all the other women's health clinics I've ever been involved with.

I will close with this, PLEASE tell me how abortion has HELPED women? Do some more research and you will find that 70% of the women involved in the pro life movement are post abortive. Some of them have had 3 to 4 abortions, but at some point they came to terms with the impact abortion had on them. And obviosuly it wasn't a good one, otherwise they would not be volunteering their time at a crisis pregancy center.

Fascinatingly, many, if not most, of the women involved in the prochoice movement have had abortions too, and they clearly have come to terms with the impact of it on their lives, and felt it was vital to make sure other women had the same chances they did. Abortion has helped women by a) making sure that women are never trapped with an unwanted pregnancy and b) preventing women from dying in unsafe, backalley abortions. It's possible, of course, that you don't consider empowerment and not dying to be positive effects, but there, as with so many things, we disagree.

"If you would like to learn more about what abortion REALLY is, take a look at the pictures, unlike Planned Parenthood or anyone you would like to deem as liars, the pictures do NOT lie."

Right. Because there's no such thing as PhotoShop. But let me tell you, I've seen those photos, and my mind is unchanged. My body is my own: nobody, and I mean nobody has the right to make use of it against my will.

round of applause for you EG. that did need to be said and i am glad your the one who did it (cuz i sure didnt want to haha)

Thanks, elektrodot! It's amazing the amount of time I'll devote to refuting right-wingers when I should be working!

Wow EG, hats off to you for taking that on.

Therese, how can you see anyone from waaaay up there on your pedestal? I'm sure abortion doctors are coming to you in droves to relieve their souls and confess, as are all the abortion dealers, abortion receivers, and those who look glaringly at babies.

When a woman is told she is pregnant and says "I want an abortion," the reason why a clinician might say "OK" is because the clinician believe that the woman is smart and capable enough to make her own decision. And, you know, not judge. You should try it some time.

You are a bright, shining example of why it is SO important to teach reality in schools to kids. You can form cogent sentences and you bought a load of crap hook, line and sinker - I shudder at what impressionable teenagers might spout off after hearing from someone like you.

As amazed as I am at the verbal diarrhea you graced us with here, I would LOVE to see your sources for "abortion dealers" and recalcitrant doctors. You DO have sources that aren't in your own head, right?

As a gay male I see the parallels of how the fundie nutjobs and members of government try to control gay rights and reproductive rights. The "American Taliban" (coined by Dan Savage) will stop at nothing to control YOURS and ALLs personal freedoms

Good organization - keep the message out there. If some of our leaders don't like it, let them move to Iran where government interference is an every day occurence in THEIR daily life.

www.futuregringo.com

Take action on this issue!!It is possible to weigh in on this issue by sending a letter to Secretary Leavitt. Go tohttp://www.nfprha.org/c.ggLRIWODKtF/b.947097/k.32CC/Take_Action/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=ggLRIWODKtF&b=947097&aid=7730 to view and sign the letter.

If we want to stop this sort of crap we need to get rid of Bush and his paperless rightwing owned and produced uncheckable electronic voting machines. He was never democratically elected. The midterms it appears varied from independant exit polls by about 4%. Any other place in the world this would be declared election rigging. Have a look at
http://www.Bradblog.com

and http://blackboxvoting.org

if you want to restore your right to vote. The mainstream media are also culpable. 1000000 people marched with the Feminist majority foundation for a womans right to choose and it hardly made the news. Electronic election fraud is not making the news. When the media is complicit with the right wing we have a much harder battle. Demand they bring back paper ballots or we are all screwed. Even a Vpat paper trail is no assurance the machines are not rigging it. In Ohio Bev Harris of BlackBox voting caught them (voting officials) red handed and on film throwing the signed tapes in the Dumpster while keeping unsigned copies which differed from the original signed ones. Thats just the start of a long sorry story. The right wing have plans for us all that they know we won't vote for They are being aided by media blackouts and complete lies on many critical subjects.
The media are complicit in creating phoney terror scares that allow Bush and his cronies to erode our freedoms more every day. You may have heard that the so called liquid bombs are damb near impossible to make and it would take about 30 people all mixing them up in the plane toliets for about 2 to 3 hours to get enough to blow up a plane. Its all complete bull. Go to
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com
to read a series about the so called liquid bombers. Its in the left margin somewhere. There are a lot of other interesting articales there also that you may agree or disagree with but its good to actually get some real news.