New Pattern Amongst Rep's With Abortion: Stupidity

Liberals do it too: see GMOs, austism and vaccines...there is however a distinctly different character that comes out of the related proposed legislation.

Really? Let's not even narrow this down to the abortion debate and include all science-related debate (climate change, evolution in schools, stem cell research, etc.). You would really simplify it all down to 'both sides are equally bad' when it's been shown time and time again that Congressional Republicans have little no understanding of modern science and go so far as to codify this their stupidity into laws?

Liberals do it too: see GMOs, austism and vaccines...there is however a distinctly different character that comes out of the related proposed legislation.

Liberals do it too: see GMOs, austism and vaccines...there is however a distinctly different character that comes out of the related proposed legislation.

what Idon't like about liberals is when thier science is dead on vis-a-vie smoking, ect. Now it's our divine (granted through science) mission to impose our thoughts and wills on you. it's ***. I understand it kills the poor & clogs up our hospitals with fools who can't pay thier bills, but isn't that what Obama care is for? now that we have that, for the love of ***, quit hassling me.

Hassling you how specifically? I'm just curious so I can respond appropriately.

I agree there are a vast number of factors outside of the concept of personal responsibility, but you have to agree there are far too many uninformed or unprepared people having children without the means to take care of them. I can't speak for those people, but from the outside it seems as though that thought had never crossed thier minds.

My wife and I have waited to have children because we don't feel emotionally or financially prepared. We both grew up with limitted means and have worked very hard to get to a point of relative financial security. We don't want our kids to ever have to question why we get food from the foodbank or why a charity brings us Christmas gifts.

The difference is that I don't presume to control someone else's right to have or not have children.

How about we try working on educating our populace?

I watched a show where a kid took his girlfriends birth control pills "just in case" (they split the pills up).

A lot of states no longer teach sex ed but teach abstinence instead. This means they have no concept of how birth control works (and when it doesn't, or how many different types there are, etc), properly using condoms or spermicide, and the home grown myths of how you won't get pregnant (pulling put, etc). Coming from FL I never had a sex ed class.

Planned Parenthood tries to help but there were only 5 offices in GA (3 in Atlanta or close), more in FL, and I have no idea how the other states shape up.

Everyone keeps spouting personal responsiblity and how parents should teach this. I agree that would be great, but who taught the parents? We have kids having kids who are having kids. Almost every high school in GA has day care available for the high school kids' babies.

If we want our populace to take personal responsibility, become productive members of society and pay taxes, we need to educate them.

How about we try working on educating our populace? I watched a show where a kid took his girlfriends birth control pills "just in case" (they split the pills up). A lot of states no longer teach sex ed but teach abstinence instead. This means they have no concept of how birth control works (and when it doesn't, or how many different types there are, etc), properly using condoms or spermicide, and the home grown myths of how you won't get pregnant (pulling put, etc). Coming from FL I never had a sex ed class. Planned Parenthood tries to help but there were only 5 offices in GA (3 in Atlanta or close), more in FL, and I have no idea how the other states shape up. Everyone keeps spouting personal responsiblity and how parents should teach this. I agree that would be great, but who taught the parents? We have kids having kids who are having kids. Almost every high school in GA has day care available for the high school kids' babies. If we want our populace to take personal responsibility, become productive members of society and pay taxes, we need to educate them.

I'd like to know how a girl got birth control pills without being instructed on how to use them lol... I'd be more alarmed that they're just handing pills out to kids without even explaining it to them...

idk... maybe it's just me but I don't see how it's all that hard to educate someone in that... hay thar kids! The condom goes on the guy! The birth control is for the girl! If you have unprotected sex you could transmit disease or become pregnant! There is defenitely more to it but the basics are pretty easy to pass along and would be shocking if a parent was not aware... though not impossible I guess...

In FL you are handed a prescription, sent to the pharmacy, and then are asked by your pharmacist if you understand how this medicine needs to be taken. How long do your doctors normally speak with you about prescriptions before they leave? Because most of mine never stayed long. Planned parenthood is slightly different but it also depends on who you get. Also, you are seriously simplifying how birth control works. Birth control pills have a lot of things that interfere with it and each variety is different. Then there are options besides pills.

I'd never try to claim that the crazies are restricted to a single ideology, but I was strictly referring to Republicans in Congress in order to avoid a wide generalization. I just find it very disingenuous to assert that there is no discernible difference between the two party platforms when it comes to these issues.

I don't mean to over simplify this into red vs blue, but I can't see how you can assert that both parties have a similar track record when it comes to understanding and interpreting modern science (***, even science that that's centuries old).

And around the same time we began exploring space, scientists were studying changes taking place in the Earth's atmosphere. Now, scientists had known since the 1800s that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide trap heat, and that burning fossil fuels release those gases into the air. That wasn't news. But in the late 1950s, the National Weather Service began measuring the levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, with the worry that rising levels might someday disrupt the fragile balance that makes our planet so hospitable. And what they've found, year after year, is that the levels of carbon pollution in our atmosphere have increased dramatically.

That science, accumulated and reviewed over decades, tells us that our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

The 12 warmest years in recorded history have all come in the last 15 years. Last year, temperatures in some areas of the ocean reached record highs, and ice in the Arctic shrank to its smallest size on record -- faster than most models had predicted it would. These are facts.

Now, we know that no single weather event is caused solely by climate change. Droughts and fires and floods, they go back to ancient times. But we also know that in a world that's warmer than it used to be, all weather events are affected by a warming planet. The fact that sea level in New York, in New York Harbor, are now a foot higher than a century ago -- that didn't cause Hurricane Sandy, but it certainly contributed to the destruction that left large parts of our mightiest city dark and underwater.