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Hugh Hefner (file)
It goes without saying Playboy founder Hefner has been a fierce advocate of sexual liberation. Now, he's speaking out on the recent proposals by conservatives to curtail women's reproductive rights.
According to Politico, he railed against "repressed Republicans" that have been "pounding on America's bedroom door" in a rare op-ed appearing in the May issue of the magazine.
"Last October, in an interview with an evangelical blogger, Rick Santorum promised to defund birth control on the grounds that contraception is "a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.'" He continued, "Ron Paul was no better, believing that the birth control pill did not cause immorality but that immorality creates the problem of wanting to use the pill. Mitt Romney vowed to see a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and to overturn Roe v. Wade."
As the Hef pointed out, he's been down this road before many times before. "All these years later I hear echoes of this same ignorance espoused by a new crop of self-appointed arbiters who are determined to oversee our morality," wrote Hefner, citing Santorum backer Foster Friess aspirin-between-their-knees comment, anti-abortion legislation in Kansas and Rush Limbaugh callinggrad student Sandra Fluke a "slut" as examples. "Fifty years of sexual freedom vanished in a sound bite," he lamented.
After watching the "rhetoric building," Hefner vowed to fight the proposed policies of these right-wing "zealots."
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Poor, senile Hugh Hefner.
He missed the fact that this war was fought and lost by the Demon Dems and their lackeys in the leftist press.
It's old news, but it was no more than a "Trojan" War, and decidely un-hot Sandra Fluke's face launched a thousand hot words a minute, but no battlesnips, after all.
There are some issues at the State Legislative levels that deal with 2nd and 3rd trimester regulation of abortion practices and policies, but that is exactly where they belong, at the State level, as in the decision of Rowe vs. Wade.
And there are Democrats and Independents siding with the stricter legislative approaches at those levels, as its not all the leftist "progressive" national media junkies that are concerned with these issues.
You obviously don't pay attention. Banning birth control does not = "license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be". Just ask the many non-sexually active women who use birth control to regulate periods (whether to get it regularly or to control the flow. Too much bleeding can lead to anemia). Ask the myriad women that use it to control the growth of ovarian cysts (which was what Sandra Fluke testified about, if any of you people paid attention). Ask any woman that uses it because of debilitating monthly cramps that are so bad they can't get out of bed (and yes, women get them that bad, and no, Midol, Aleve, and Tylenol do not fix it). Ask any woman that uses them to control endometriosis. Ask any woman that uses them to balance hormones.
There are PLENTY of women that use them for non-sexual reasons. There are plenty of virgins on the pill for reasons listed above. Santorum did nothing but prove that he's obsessed with sex and porn.
BTW, how hot Sandra Fluke is has no bearing on anything. You're showing that you're nothing more than a shallow person.
KMG:
Noone is "banning birthcontrol". There were serious questions about federally mandated insurance coverage of FREE birthcontrol. And there is the need to regulate the Plan B abortions causing prescription process at the state level.
That is a far cry from your fears that birth control is being banned, no?
This subject is old news,but the republicans can't get their way, so to deflect the issues they start a war on woman rights.
And what exactly was the "Republicans Way", and exactly what womens's rights did they, the Rebublicans, go to war on, pray tell?
How about every right except that to go back to the good old 50's or before? They have tried to redefine rape to mean basically "the forcible rape of a virgin who fought so hard all her teeth were knocked out and her skull was fractured." Since the right is made up of fundamentalist "christians," and/or frat-boys, they've never understood the concept that "no means "no." The right to terminate a pregnancy for ANY reason. If they had their way, a woman pregnant by rape or incest would be forced to carry her attacker's child for 9 months and then go through the horror of delivering a child out into the world that reminded her by its very existence of her shame and guilt. Because to the right, every woman who is raped should consider it "her own fault" because of how she was dressed, that she went to a bar, yada yada.
I find it very interesting that all the republicans who want to end a woman's right to control her own fertility---and yes, they most certainly ARE talking about banning birth control; banning the government from paying for it is just a first shot over the bow---don't seem to have a similar sense of outrage over the male participant in a pregnancy. You'd think that women because pregnant all by themselves if you just listened to faux "news." And the frenzy to take away programs that help poor women raise their babies somehow never seems to include any calls for the men involved to stand up and be responsible. Women who are either married by the men who got them pregnant, or have their children supported by those fathers generally aren't the ones getting welfare. They also aren't the ones seeking abortions, for the most part, either. But trying to get child support out of most men in this day and age is a joke. If the woman isn't receiving welfare or some other government benefit, the only way she can go after him for child support is if she has enough money to hire her own personal lawyer. Yes, if she goes on welfare or food stamps, then the state will half-heartedly try to find the child's father and force him to pay. Of course then, most of the time, he refuses to work at a legitimate job so he can't be garnisheed and goes into the vast what I call gray-market, where he works only jobs that pay cash under the table, or he changes jobs every time Support Enforcement tracks him down. And remember, that's ONLY if the state goes after him, because they are supporting his ex-woman and his children. But you never hear about that. All you hear about is that women are sluts.
In the fundamentalist muslim world, they teach young boys that they have the right to treat a girl any way they wish, up to and including the right to rape any girl they find without her father or male relative around. The reason they do that is they consider all sex, including rape and incest, to be the girl's fault, and they believe it whole-heartedly. If a girl gets raped in one of those countries, she is blamed for not wearing a burkha, or showing an ankle and thus driving him mad with desire. The girl, of course, since even her family agree, is then routinely murdered by her father and brothers for the "sin" of no longer being a virgin. Which is bad enough, but when you consider that includes rape, it simply becomes religious insanity. And yet the American right-wing seems absolutely no different. If today's right-wing were running this country, there simply wouldn't be a crime of rape, or if there was, it would only encompass those who were virgins to began with.
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