Are Some Members of Congress Just D-U-M-B?
by Peter Sprigg
July 22, 2009
FRC has recently noted the contradictions of the position of Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), who calls himself “pro-life” but was actually drummed out of the Democrats for Life of America because his plan for reducing abortion is to give more money (for contraception) to America’s largest abortion provider (Planned Parenthood).
But this quote from Rep. Ryan in a LifeNews.com article about the split with Democrats for Life really jumped out at me: “I can’t figure out for the life of me how to stop pregnancies without contraception.”
Really? He “can’t figure it out”? Not “for the life of” him?
Perhaps Rep. Ryan is under the impression that engaging in sexual relations is mandatory. It’s not. Perhaps he thinks people will die if they don’t have sex. They won’t—but thousands die each year (of sexually transmitted diseases) because they do.
If Rep. Ryan “can’t figure out . . . how to stop pregnancies without contraception,” let me spell it out for him.
A-B-S-T-A-I-N.
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Comments
I totally agree! Again, it´s a question of how we view ourselves as human beings: do we believe that we have the freedom to choose what we do? Or do we think of ourselves as helples beings that are mandated to have sex, because we have an itch? Come on!
Right on the money Mr. Sprigg. For some reason, education that sexual intercourse is NOT compulsory seems to have eluded Rep. Ryan. Brings to mind an editorial cartoon I once saw which was divided into two panels…one was in the 50′s and the other in the present time. Both involved a school principal discovering an unused condom belonging to a student. In the first panel (the 50s), the principal exclaimed, “I hope you are not planning on using this!” In the second panel (current), the principal begged, “You better use this!”
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