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[redneckgaijin]

Good news:

FDA Removes Ban on Silicone Breast Implants

(Studies have shown that silicone breast implants are no more unsafe than any other kind of implant, such as knee replacements for example. Now I wonder: will Dow Corning and all the doctors who were sued into bankruptcy on junk-science implant cases get their money back? Doubtful...)

Bad news:

Anti-Abortion, Anti-Contraception Christian Activist Appointed Head of Federal Family Planning Office

(The prizewinning line: the claim by the guy's nonprofit organization that the easy availability of birth control leads to MORE pregnancies and MORE abortions. Next time anyone reading this wants to support the benevolence of government, remember there are people like this peddling various flavors of ignorance at ALL levels...)

Comments

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

That news story boggled my mind when I heard it in passing yesterday. How can anyone who is agaist contraception be in charge of family planning on a federal level?? Will abstainance-only counselling become a federal requirement now?? Being anti-contraction should have immediately disqualified this person from being eligable for the job!! Oh wait, I forgot who is leading the government and making these choices. Welcome to the United Theocracy Of America.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

I'm still astonished about the inroads the Catholic line on contraception/prophylaxis has made into the Evangelical Protestant communities. I suspect it's sneaking in through their respective Charismatic wings. The rationale behind it puzzles me, though - if it's reproduction, or at least the possibility of reproduction that makes sex okay, then shouldn't sex be verboten for pregnant women, lactating women who nurse on demand, post-menopausal women, their spouses, and the infertile of both genders, too?

I didn't understand their ideas about sexuality even back when I was (nominally) Christian . . .

Idiots in charge.

[kyllein.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong, I support the Nation and all that stuff, but it appears that since Bush is a lame duck, that the fruitcakes are running rampant in Washington. It almost seems that they want a Democratic President next term.
It is also pretty obvious that both Parties are controlled by the extreme-est extremists, and that the Power structure is seriously out of contact with the People. That scares me. It should scare everybody: these people can make laws that are silly and stupid and put non-criminals in prison for Political Power's sake. I sometimes wonder if Anybody in Washington D.C. reads or is even aware of the Constitution's restraints on the Federal Government, since there are Laws being enacted that fly in the face of the Bill of Rights every day; or so it seems.
Consider the Incompent Clown that was appointed to the Federal Family Planning Office: this idiot was obviously a "Payback for Favors (Votes) from the lunatic fringe of the X-tian conservative movement. There really isn't that much difference between these X-tian Ultra Conservatives and the Al-Qaida creeps, other than the names of their Prophets.
Both parties seem to have forgotten that the vast majority of people are moderates, and that if they were to offer some Moderate (Centerist) ideas, they'd get votes without the need to "Pay For" them. I used to use the 2nd amendment as a litmus test on who I'd vote for, but the last round of 2nd Amendment supporters were just too loony for even my easy morals to accept.
We need to remember a sad bit of History called "the Alien and Sedition acts" that were blatantly un-constitutional, bubt were Law for almost twenty-five years before a Supreme Court struck them down. Lots of People went to Prison under these Laws...and some of them were only vindicated post-mortem.
In short: We, the People; are in trouble. Unless we do something to re-center our Political Process, we're going the same way that Rome did...into history, as a footnote.