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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
Firstly, you aren't aware of the whole issue, forcing everyone to pay for a product that anyone can easily pay for by themselves is silly and wrong.. .
and secondly, that you are seeing some kind of endorsement of the conservative position in that post, let alone a harkening to some kind of conservative fairy land... Is just bizarre. Where are you getting this stuff from?
THE POST IS SHOWING THE ABSURDITY IN BOTH SIDES ON MOST ISSUES. LIBERALS THAT WANT TO FORCE PEOPLE TO PAY FOR THE THINGS THAT THE LIBERALS LIKE AND CONSERVATIVES THAT WANT TO BAN THINGS THAT THEY DON'T LIKE.
Are you really this obtuse and blinded by party loyalty that any criticism of your party must be an endorsement of the Republicans?
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The reason the comic is absurd is because it tries to dumb down the actual facts on a fairly important issue. Democrats are not trying to force anyone to use birth control. Republicans are however trying to ban birth control and sex ed.
Trying to dumb down the topics by trying to make both sides seem equally bad seriously undermines the problem at hand. The simple fact is Republican or conservatives if you like are extremely wrong on this topic and their stance greatly increases teenage pregnancy. It's been proven in states like Texas where they have followed through with the Right wing agenda of no sex education & no birth control. Guess what teenage pregnancies skyrocketed.
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Texas lawmakers cut sex ed from two six-month courses to a single unit of "abstinence only" education. But early indications showed that the program wasn't working. In fact, teens in almost all high school grades were having more sex after undergoing the abstinence only program. By 2007, Texas had the highest teen birth rate in the nation. Nevertheless, the program continued. By 2009, 94 percent of Texas schools, which at the time were educating more than 3.7 million students, were giving no sex ed whatsoever beyond "abstinence only," a curriculum that includes emphasizing that birth control doesn't work.
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Trying to compare Democrats whom want to keep the sex ed programs in place and give out birth control as even remotely close to the same absurdity as what Republicans have done on this issue is pure ignorance.
Democrats are actually trying to solve a serious issue while Republicans attempt to put biblical law on the books. This is not a "both" sides are wrong issue, the Right is very fucking wrong the left is trying to fix the problem that was never a problem until the Right came along claiming sex ed was bad.
Trying to dumb down issues like this just adds credibility to the absurdity that is the conservative platform on issues like birth control, teaching the bible at tax payer funded schools, denial of basic science. This list could go on and on, but lets hope you can get the point and see there is a major difference between the right and left on these issues and it's not the left that is fucking things up on these kinds of issues. It's the Religious Right pushing absurd agendas.