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Flap Your Lips Friday

Posted by Michelle Moquin on March 30th, 2012

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These republicans have no goddamn scruples whatsoever. Their motto: “If we can’t convince you of what we want you to do religiously, they we’ll scare you health wise. If we can’t scare you enough that way, we’ll pass a law that just takes your rights away.” Whatever they have to do to get us to do something they’ll do it. No conscious whatsoever.

9 Lies Republicans Tell About Women’s Bodies

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) apologized Tuesday to Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) for accusing her of lying about the gender breakdown of a contraception hearing panel, but plenty of real lies remain in the debate over women’s health. Some are promoted by Republican lawmakers as they push legislation that limits reproductive rights, and others come from GOP presidential candidates and their surrogates.

1. Birth Control Causes Prostate Cancer.

Last month a New Hampshire lawmaker came up with a new reason the government should not require health insurance companies to provide contraception.

“As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Brownstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?” state Rep. Jeanine Notter (R) asked a male representative at the hearing, the Merrimack Patch reports.

“In the children that are born from these women?” he asked. Notter could not clearly explain the study or how the pill results in prostate cancer.

The study described in the newsletter of Dr. David Brownstein, a physician and holistic practitioner in Michigan, suggests men may ingest estrogen through environmental contamination, not in utero from mothers taking birth control. An author of the study told ABC News, “This is just a hypothesis-generating idea. Women should not be throwing away the pill because of this.”

2. Abortion Causes Breast Cancer.

The New Hampshire House recently passed a bill that would require doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure can cause breast cancer. Here is an excerpt from the bill, sponsored by Notter:

Materials that inform the pregnant woman that there is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer. It is scientifically undisputed that full-term pregnancy reduces a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer. It is also undisputed that the earlier a woman has a first full-term pregnancy, the lower her risk of breast cancer becomes, because following a full-term pregnancy the breast tissue exposed to estrogen through the menstrual cycle is more mature and cancer resistant. In fact, for each year that a woman’s first full-term pregnancy is delayed, her risk of breast cancer rises 3.5 percent. The theory that there is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer builds upon this undisputed foundation. During the first and second trimesters of pregnancy the breasts develop merely by duplicating immature tissues. Once a woman passes the thirty-second week of pregnancy (third trimester), the immature cells develop into mature cancer resistant cells. When an abortion ends a normal pregnancy, the woman is left with more immature breast tissue than she had before she was pregnant.

There is no link between abortions and breast cancer, according to the World Health Organization, the American Cancer Society and other major health organizations. Similar provisions requiring doctors to make the abortion-breast cancer connection remain on the books in other state laws. Alaska, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas all inaccurately assert a risk in written counseling materials, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based reproductive health research organization.

3. Birth Control Is A Sex Pill.

Rush Limbaugh showed he has no understanding of how birth control pills work when he attacked Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student barred from testifying as a Democratic witness at a congressional hearing about the Obama administration’s contraception policy. Limbaugh called Fluke a “slut” for needing lots of birth control to manage her sex life.

“She wants to be paid to have sex,” Limbaugh said. “She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.”

Rick Santorum has also said that contraception encourages a bad kind of sex. Last year, in an interview with the Evangelical blog Caffeinated Thoughts, Santorum warned of the “dangers of contraception:”

“It’s not OK because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They’re supposed to be within marriage, they are supposed to be for purposes that are, yes, conjugal, but also [inaudible], but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. We take any part of that out, we diminish the act.”

Most women who have had sex have used contraception. Birth control pills — which are taken daily, regardless of how frequently a woman has sex — may also be taken to manage endometriosis, ovarian cysts, acne or other health problems. A recent bill in Arizona proposed penalizing women who use the pill for non-medical reasons.

4. Abortion Industry Is “Selling Abortions.”

A Republican state legislator in Arizona last week wrote in an email to a constituent that she wanted to force women seeking abortions to watch the procedure first.

“Personally I’d like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a ‘surgical procedure,’” state Rep. Terri Proud (R) wrote. The constituent responded by email that she was “speechless” and after a baffling exchange with Proud, released the emails to the media. Facing national outrage, Proud issued a statement:

For too long, Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry have placed selling abortions above the health and safety of women. My message to a constituent last week emphasized my concerns with how abortion providers have not been honest with women about the realities of abortion, and the short and long-term risks of this dangerous surgical procedure.

The notion that Planned Parenthood baits women into unwanted pregnancies by providing ineffective contraception then profits off the abortions is nothing new, but it’s as outrageous as it sounds. Abortions constitute 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services, and the organization estimates it prevents more than 220,000 abortions each year by providing contraception. Because Planned Parenthood is not allowed to use federal funds for abortions, defunding the program may limit contraception services and result in more abortions.

5. Women Can’t Get Pregnant From Rape.

Just before Idaho’s Senate passed a mandatory ultrasound bill last week, bill sponsor made some startling comments about abortion and rape.

“Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this,” said state Sen. Chuck Winder (R). “I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that’s part of the counseling that goes on.”

It wasn’t the first time a lawmaker has suggested that women seeking abortions may lie about rape. Some anti-abortion activists actually believe that rape cannot result in pregnancy. Buzzfeed dug up a series of bizarre statements Republicans have made about pregnancy, rape, juices not flowing and more. Here’s one:

The odds that a woman who is raped will get pregnant are “one in millions and millions and millions,” said state Rep. Stephen Freind, R-Delaware County, the Legislature’s leading abortion foe.

The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to “secrete a certain secretion” that tends to kill sperm.

Two Philadelphia doctors specializing in human reproduction characterized Freind’s contention as scientifically baseless.

According to Planned Parenthood, about 5 percent of rapes result in pregnancy, and providing all rape victims with emergency contraception could prevent more than 22,000 unwanted pregnancies a year.

6. Prenatal Testing Leads To Abortion.

Rick Santorum made prenatal testing a campaign issue last month when he declared the tests are designed to “cull the ranks of the disabled in our society” by encouraging abortions.

“Amniocentesis does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortions,” Santorum, who has a severely disabled daughter, said on Face the Nation. “That is a fact.”

In fact, more than 90 percent of amniocenteses tests result in normal diagnoses, and half of fetuses diagnosed with severe abnormalities — about 5 percent of those tested — are aborted, according to PolitiFact.

A campaign spokeswoman for Obama condemned Santorum’s comments as “misinformed and dangerous” and pointed out that the tests help women have safer deliveries and healthier babies.

7. HPV Vaccine Causes Retardation.

Back when Rick Perry was campaigning for president, his rivals attacked him for signing an executive order mandating the human papillomavirus vaccine for young girls, and misinformation quickly spread. Michele Bachmann insinuated that the vaccine causes mental retardation, while Santorum spoke out against “having little girls inoculated at the force and compulsion of the government.”

The vaccine is safe and effective in preventing cervical cancer caused by certain strains of HPV, and Perry’s 2007 executive order, which was overturned by the state legislature, would have allowed parents to opt out of having their daughters vaccinated. Dr. Renata Arrington-Sanders, a professor at Johns Hopkins University medical school, told HuffPost’s Laura Bassett:

“The HPV vaccine has been shown to be safe and well-tolerated based on multiple medical reports that have been submitted through government databases. It’s unfortunate that this particular vaccine is surrounded by a lot of controversy just because it’s been labeled as an STD-prevention vaccine. We have similar vaccines, such as one for hepatitis B, that are also used in a mandated approach and have shown very successful rates with prevention.”

8. Plan B Causes Abortions.

The debate over the Obama administration’s contraception policy has yielded some puzzling claims about birth control and Plan B. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) addressed the House in February, urging his colleagues to reverse Obama’s mandate for health insurance coverage of “abortion-inducing drugs:”

In recent days, Americans of every faith and political persuasion have mobilized in objection to a rule put forward by the Obama administration that constitutes an unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country. This rule would require faith-based employers –- including Catholic charities, schools, universities, and hospitals -– to provide services they believe are immoral. Those services include sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs and devices, and contraception.

Michele Bachmann called Plan B an abortion pill when she incorrectly criticized Obama for making the drug available over-the-counter — an FDA recommendation the administration and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected last year. “The president can put abortion pills for girls 8 years of age, 11 years of age, on the bubblegum aisle,” Bachmann said at a “pro-life” town hall in December.

Contraceptives, emergency or not, prevent pregnancy. They don’t cause abortions. Plan B works in the same way and with the same ingredients as birth control pills, just at a higher dosage, and does nothing to stop the development of a fetus.

9. Your Fetus Is Just Fine.

The Arizona Senate passed a bill this month to protect doctors from “wrongful birth” lawsuits — effectively allowing them to withhold information that may lead a patient to get an abortion. HuffPost’s John Celock reports:

Sen. Nancy Barto (R-Phoenix) told the Claims Journal that she sponsored the law because she did not want claimants to blame a doctor for a baby born with disabilities. Under the provisions of her bill, a doctor could not be sued for medical malpractice if the doctor withholds information from a mother about a child’s potential health issues that could influence her decision to have an abortion. In addition, a lawsuit could not be filed on the child’s behalf regarding a disability.

Kansas lawmakers have considered similar legislation.

*L*S*O*S*

Please ladies...use your brains. Because if you vote republican, you’re obviously not. With everything we witness, from health care to the war against women, no sane woman would vote republican.

Readers: I wish that Trayvon Martin’s murder was the last of these heinous crimes against young black boys and really any OTW, but it would only be HOPEful thinking, because I so strongly want things to change…for Trayvon’s murder to be a reminder of all the murders of black boys such as Trayvon that have come before him, and the impetus to stop the murders of black boys in the future.

Hmm..It makes me think. If I were an OTW who lived in “stand your ground” states, I would go get myself a gun. And if anyone got in my face, and threatened me in my space calling me a nigger, wetback, (what are those other names you use George, WN?) while invading my legal non-retreating space, I would “stand my ground”, pull out my gun and shoot. And if I  killed the offender, he would not be there to answer otherwise. But I would only do it if I felt threatened. I would not break the law and do it just because I didn’t like white folks. Of course, we all know, if enough white people got killed, the law would change in the proverbial hot minute. Then and only then.

“See Jane notice all of the Senators running down to the legislative house to change that law.”

 

Ana:  :) I HOPE you make it out here some day.

Steve: No hierarchy. It is the luck of the draw, or timing…or? I wish I could tell you.  Thanks for being persistent.

Social Butterfly:  Thank you for giving recognition to Adrienne Rich. She is most definitely a Wonderful Woman of The World.

Jilan: You’re welcome and thank you for the kind words. And I understand completely why you would feel that way. I feel for you, just as I have moments where I think those same thoughts. May you and yours be safe and well.

Oops I am running late for a session. I’m done flapping mine – your turn. Blog me. 

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18 Responses to “Flap Your Lips Friday”

  1. Zen Lill Says:

    Oh man, I thought flap your lips Friday was for the lighter side of things, bahahaha…not today.

    I don’t have time to dissect all 9 for discussion here though #1 says it all: now the sweet essence of unwanted pregnancy protected womanhood is being subjected to CAUSING a MAN disease (and *gasp* – one down near his pecker)?! Pretty soon we’re going to be required to have a license to operate our precious triangles happily enforced by our local friendly to one gender re-THUG, UM – w-t-Hell is happening here? Great points to bring up with rethug women though, kudos to you, Misch, and thank you.

    **still shaking my head over here, this list is insane and how anyone could allow Santorum et al to reel you into their warped reality is beyond me, allow me to ‘count you out’ – 1,2,3,4,5 – EYES OPEN – WIDE AWAKE!

    I’m about to pick up my girl for the beginning of her spring break and we are going to partAAyyy…catch you here when I can!

    Caio for now, Luv, Zen Lill

  2. Jessica Says:

    I couldn’t get in all day yesterday I hope it was a fluke. If this gets in I will re write.

  3. Dahlia Says:

    Shirley Chisholm passed away January 1, 2005. This was before your blog. I know that if you had been around then Social Butterfly would have remembered her.

    I just want to take the time to make a belated RIP to the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

    Unlike Margaret Chase Smith who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964, uneventfully, Ms. Chisholm had to survive three known assignation attempts.

    Thank you Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm.

    Dahlia

  4. Health Info Says:

    Plates That Help Your Weight

    There’s a reason why stop signs are red. Not only is it the most noticeable color, but study after study has found that, because stop signs have been red for such a long time, the color itself has come to automatically signal “danger”…“don’t go here”… and, yes, “stop.”

    And now new research shows that this color even might help us stop drinking fattening beverages and eating too much food.

    We have known for a long time that colors can influence our moods and even our behaviors, but it was Leonie Reutner, MSc, a doctoral student and lecturer at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who coauthored a study published online in Appetite this past January to see if color could actually be used as a tool for weight loss.

    The answer? Yes. But how?

    SEEING RED

    Knowing how the color red signals “danger” in most people’s minds, Reutner and her colleagues wanted to see whether using red-colored plates and red-labeled glasses would make people eat less of a salty snack and drink less of a sugar-sweetened beverage. So they set up two experiments to find out…

    The beverage study: Researchers approached 41 college students and invited them to take part in an “evaluation of three sweet drinks.”

    Since their pretest had found that female students took only tiny sips of the drinks, the researchers invited only male students to participate.

    Each participant was asked to rate three drinks matched for color (slightly yellowish) in clear plastic cups. An adhesive label with a large A, B or C printed in white on it was attached to each cup.

    The backgrounds behind the letters on each label were, randomly, blue or red. The drinks were not identified to the study participants, but they were lemon-flavored, white tea-flavored and green tea-flavored.

    Researchers weighed each cup before and after the drink test and found that—you guessed it—regardless of which drink was being tasted, participants drank significantly less (about 41% less, on average) from the red-labeled cups than from the blue-labeled cups.

    The red-plate study: This time, 109 males and females, ranging in age from 13 to 75, were asked to assist in a study related to “various areas of psychology.”

    Each was given a questionnaire to complete, was seated at a table in front of either a white, red or blue paper plate containing exactly 10 pretzels, and was told, “Feel free to snack on the pretzels while completing the questionnaire.”

    After the participants left, researchers counted the pretzels that were left on each plate. And, sure enough, participants ate 48% fewer pretzels from red plates than from the blue and white plates.

    WHAT CAN WE READ INTO RED?

    Before anyone goes out and buys red plates and cups, Reutner said, it’s important to consider two points. The first is that the participants in the experiments didn’t know ahead of time that red might help them eat or drink less, but now that you know it, the red might not have the same effect on you.

    The second is that the participants were distracted during the experiment. They were focused on either rating a beverage or filling out a questionnaire as opposed to being focused on what they were eating…so again, your results might vary.

    I applaud Reutner for being academically rigorous in pointing out these differences between her study and real life—but on the other hand, the red had such a huge effect in the study that it’s hard to imagine that it wouldn’t have some effect on our dinner tables.

    So if you want to lose weight or if you want to help a loved one lose weight, why not try it? Get some red plates and give it some time—maybe a month—for the novelty to wear off, and then judge whether they are helping you. And while you’re at it, get smaller plates—size has also been shown to matter when it comes to quantity of food eaten.

    Source: Leonie Reutner, MSc, researcher and lecturer, department of social and economic psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

  5. Ellen Says:

    I couldn’t get in either yesterday. But I see it is open so let me say damn men if they think they can bring us back to the days when we were essentially chattel.

    Ellen

  6. Monica Says:

    Kudos to you Zen Lill, I couldn’t have said it better.

  7. Erica Says:

    Has anyone heard what Coulter woman said about the reaction to Zimmerman not getting arrested? I don’t know what’s uglier – her face, her voice, her ideologies, her words…they all make me want to puke.

  8. Nancy Says:

    If the withe women with a serious thought don’t get out and vote Obama will lose. In three key states Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey without two of which having been won no president has ever won the White House the poll numbers are very close.

    Considering white women are supporting Obama by 16 percentage points, the closeness has to be caused by the overwhelming support white men are giving to Romney.

    I’m white and it is sad to say most white men I know are voting color. They will lie but a few minutes of discussing politics will belie their claims. It’s color that is the issue for them.

    So white women get along with your man, but when you hit that booth vote your own interest.

    Nancy

  9. Chloe Says:

    I don’t know it the person who asked Howie to get Carr to help him win did. But it was interesting to here each got $213,333,333.

    The numbers add up to be equally divisible by THREE.

    I LOVE this blog.

    Well, Howie did you ask Carr?

    Chloe

  10. Barbara Says:

    I agree a belated nod to Shirley Chisholm is well deserved. She like Michelle and Alycedale was not just a woman but a woman who supported women’s issues.

    Barbara

    Michelle I couldn’t get in either yesterday.

  11. From the Desk of Nancy Pelosi Says:

    Fighting for our Values
    This week, House Republicans passed a budget that ends the Medicare guarantee, gives tax breaks to the wealthiest, destroys jobs and threatens Americans’ health care by repealing the Affordable Care Act. This dangerous plan forces seniors to pay more for less benefits. At the same time, it gives those making more than $1 million per year an average tax cut of $394,000 while preserving tax breaks for Big Oil. In addition, the Economic Policy Institute estimated the budget would destroy 4.1 million jobs through 2014.

    My Democratic colleagues and I have offered a different path. Our values-based budget creates jobs, invests in our small businesses, honors the entrepreneurial spirit of America, strengthens the middle class, and builds ladders of opportunity for people who are willing to work hard, play by the rules, and take responsibility. This plan protects Medicare for our nation’s seniors, provides access to Pell Grants for students and reduces the deficit in a positive way. We are committed to reigniting the American dream so that all may have the opportunity to succeed.

    Congresswoman Pelosi celebrates expansion, innovation, and job creation in the health care industry on the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act during a ribbon cutting at Practice Fusion’s new headquarters in the Tenderloin.

    Investing in the Bayview Community
    It was a great honor to join the Young Community Developers last week to discuss their work in the Bayview community to transform our young people’s lives in a way that preserves their dignity, talent, inspiration and imagination.

    During my 25 years in Congress, I have been proud to fight on behalf of community-driven solutions in Southeast San Francisco: improving public housing at Alice Griffith and Hunters View, ensuring accessible, high-quality affordable housing and securing three quarters of a billion dollars to cleanup and redevelop Hunters Point in a way that strengthens the existing local community. Additional initiatives have improved infrastructure, including Third Street Rail which brings people to and from work in a way that improves their quality of life and the quality of the air they breathe, addressed environmental health and health disparities, and created job opportunities and training through programs such as Jobs Now.

    These investments restore hope to the community and provide residents with equity, ownership, and jobs. We will continue to fight to promote justice, advance prosperity, and build better lives for local residents at the ground level.

    Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act
    On Wednesday, I joined House Democrats to announce the introduction of legislation to provide for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). For nearly 20 years, VAWA has strengthened communities and provided critical, life-saving support to victims of violence. Because of this law, more victims report domestic violence to the police, rape crisis centers have been able to keep their doors open, and law enforcement and victims services providers are working together to better meet the needs of victims. Not only has VAWA saved lives, it has saved money, nearly $12.6 billion in net averted social costs in just its first six years.

    All Americans are entitled to feel safe in their workplace, in their homes, and walking on our streets. Yet too many women continue to live in fear. And that is why we must reauthorize – and strengthen – the Violence Against Women Act.

    Please feel free to forward this information to your family and friends. To learn more about these efforts, to express your views, or to sign up for email updates, please visit my website. I am also on Twitter at http://twitter.com/NancyPelosi.

    Sincerely,

    Member of Congress

  12. Peggy Says:

    Michelle, women need to hear that stuff. It shows that the right is not at all concerned about the health issues of women.

    They just want white women to have babies to keep the voting advantage we whites have at the polls.

    It is unchanged from the past when the catholic church encouraged the promotion of allowing the child forced into marriage at 12 to die because her hips were developed enough to get a baby through.

    Hence the church said get the baby out so the man can have an heir and let the mother die. They are cheap.

    That was and apparently still is the philosophy of that male bastion of pedophiles and misogynists.

    Peggy

  13. Jilan Says:

    Thank you Michelle for singling me out for comment. I hope the american woman gets more success in politics. I can envision the difference if the right thinking woman gets elected in America.

    Jilan

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    Mike

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