Planning stages
When the economy gets bad, low-cost health care providers start seeing more patients. It seems natural that people still want to prevent cancer, pregnancy, or STDs, but perhaps can’t afford regular doctor visits. Planned Parenthood is under constant attack for it’s efforts at providing women with high-quality/low cost health care, and this year is seeing its contributions from state budget endangered. So, they’re selling gift certficates. because nothing says “I love you” like a free pap smear.
When access to contraception declines abortion rates go up, and decreased ability to test for and treat STDs will certainly cause untold human misery. Naturally, the groups most outraged at the continued existence of an organization which helps people take care of themselves are called “pro life”…
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I like broccoli.
What? You Twittered that you wanted comments; you didn’t say what about.
Anyway, they call themselves “pro-life”. You and I are free to call them what they are: the Forced Childbirth movement. The crooks, fascists and religious fanatics have won many battles with semantic framing and labeling; a.k.a. lying. I don’t even call them the Right any more. They are just the Wrong.
I look forward to linking back to this next time school vouchers come up as an issue, specifically eligibility of parochial schools for vouchers.
Heh. Except that private schools, controlled for income of the parents, have shown to be at best equal to public schools.
[citation needed]
A quick googling turns up this study with the opposite conclusion.
Based on my personal experience in public, private and parochial schools in the ’60s and ’70s, I would have NOT gone outside the public school system if I’d ever had children except under extreme circumstances. Good teachers in the public schools are rare. In the non-public schools I attended, they were non-existent. Of course, if I’d ever had children, I would’ve supplemented whatever schooling they got, and they would’ve hated me for it.