Leslee Unruh is coming for your babies.

[Roxie]

Serioulsy. (http://feministing.com/archives/007079.html#comments)

Link is fixed.

[japanat]

Roxie, I get a server error on that shortcut. Can you repost?

[Roxie]

http://feministing.com/archives/007079.html#comments

[Soli]

Wow. >_> She's just a tad crazy?

[Jetsetlemming]

She has a stupid name.
I never get why some pro-life activists fight contraceptives, even though they avoid abortions. >_>; Stupid Pope.

[MeneerDijk]

Lol, they are complaining the pharmaceutical companies are playing god... while she is trying to decide for someone else if they should use contraceptives...

[Roxie]

Meener, by her logic, taking tylenol for a headache is playing God. How dare I! God MEANT for me to have that migraine.

Also, i hate the way the interviewer let Unruh talk ALL OVER the other woman and then he said "do you want 12/13yr old girls popping these pills like chicklets?"

FIRSTLY, no one, not anyone "pops b.c. pills like chicklets". They aren't tasty, they don't get you high.

Secondly, If it's b.c. pills at 12/13 vs. pregnancy at 12/13, I'm going b.c.

[Ozero]

it's scary to watch her, smiling like a crackfiend while she's talking about people playing god. People so solidy gleeful in thier rantings need...

they need drugs, m'kay?

[Y.T.]

That woman is awful. She even "starts chanting" lie ! lie! while the other (pro choice) woman is speaking.

She goes on about how big pharma "controls human bodies" when no one is forcing women to use contraception....

The moderator goes on, that if such pills (that stop periods) were allowed, 13 yr olds would pop them like chiclets. As if 13 years old had enough money for something like that. And, isn't hormonal contraception perscription only ? Around here, it is afaik.

It's not natural for women to have so many periods. In the old days, when there was no contraception, most women had a lot more children (though many survived) and were actually pregnant maybe half the time, or more, until menopause.

They talk over themselves half the time... Do people actually watch that kind of TV? To me, it sounded a bit like the monkey pavilon at the Zoo.

After seeing that Unruh , one gets tempted to make some post-birth abortions. Preferably with a hedge trimmer.

[Shishio]

The funniest thing about christian fundamentalists is that they completely ignore the fact that if god (As described in the bible) exists, it is up to him, and him alone, to judge us. For all they profess to love him, they sure do a good job of heeding the new testament...

(I'm refraining from commenting on fundamentalists that practice other religions because I know next to nothing of other religions.)

[Angelyne]

See this is why I watch Fox News--it's better comedy than any sitcom or movie.

[Micah the Great]

HAHA. If there weren't crazy people like this... who would we make fun of?

[japanat]

She's nuts, without a doubt, "the drug companies will control women's bodies"; but that 'news'man was horrible - "popping them like chicklets". FoxNews is the Jerry Springer of news channels, definitely! No professionalism at all, they even make CNN's Irag cheerleading of 2003 look good.

I guess I'm old-fashioned. I want my news to be as free of slant or agenda as possible (yes, I know that simply choosing which stories to report on is a form of bias), and editorializing to be clearly identified, like Andy Rooney on '60 Minutes'.

[Arvynia]

yikes. I would never be able to debate/argue against that woman. She's like talking to a freakn' wall.

[Jay]

Oh, I would LOVE to debate against her. That'd make my fucking YEAR. ^_^

[Arvynia]

I'd probably end up throwing something at her.

[Jay]

I... dunno why, but I love trying to hammer the point home with a proverbial bri-- nevermind, I just figured out why I'd enjoy arguing with her. :)

[Lea]

MORE BABIES!! Yeah, little babies are cute and adorable! But kids grow up into adults. I doubt the bright future of a child born to a mother who didn't want it.

And I don't understand this abortion or birth control debate. My mother told me that when she was went to get an ultra sound of me when pregnant, she thought for a minute that I wasn't going to be born with arms. She said there was no doubt that she would have aborted me. And I told her that I would have wanted her to. I was a fetus (weird!) with no feelings or mindset yet. I could be aborted and simply reborn. That's kind of how I always look at it. :/

[Y.T.]

Debate against her ?

First, you would need to nail her to a chair and gag her mouth.
Otherwise, no one would hear you even if you screamed...

[MeneerDijk]

I guess what it comes down to is that people need to take responsability for themselves and for their kids. Instead of sticking your head in the sand and act like you can ward off all evil that way.

Kids don't have sex because there's birth control and education, it's because they're curious and they can. There's no sure fire way of keeping kids from having sex, but you can at least do your best to make sure they don't get pregnant or contract a disease by informing them, and making sure they have access to any contraceptive or profilactic they need.

I get really annoyed with people that preach abstinance and refuse to teach sex ed. to their kids. Abstinance is fine, but at least teach kids what they should be abstinant from and why. And if they choose to break their abstinance, make sure that what they know to keep safe comes from you as a parent, instead of a less informed source.

[Hatsumomo]

^Huge slice of word right there.

Abstinence-only education is not doing anybody any favors and it's been shown to be as effective as the D.A.R.E. program (that is, not at all).