Thursday, February 26th, 2009...10:41 am
Our Wingnuts Trumped
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A friend of mine spends waaay too much time cruising the blogosphere. She says that sometimes she finds stuff that makes her feel a bit better about our legislature. Take this bit from Pandagon that she sent me about Colorado Sen. Dave Schultheis, who voted against a bill requiring HIV testing for pregnant women because he thinks that they should be punished for their promiscuity.
Hey, he said that. I am not making it up. Read the article.
I guess I should count my blessings. Here, they’d put him in charge of health policy.
6 Comments
February 26th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Gotta love the consistency (or consistent inconsistency depending on your POV) of conservative misogynists. Not only should women who are promiscuous* be punished with death, but any sexually transmitted disease a woman contracts is de facto evidence of her promiscuity. It’s impossible to them that she may have gotten it from her husband who was sleeping around, or was raped. This is the mentality of the opponents to HPV vaccinations. HPV is the just desserts for young women who have premarital sex. Somehow, the abstinence they instill in their daughters will magically protect them from any diseases their maybe not-so-abstinent husbands might transmit to them.
*Not that it’s any of their effing business if women are promiscuous.
February 26th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
It gets worse. Much MUCH worse.
When asked his stance, he clarified:
“What I’m hoping is that yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, but the mother will begin to feel guilt as a result of that. ”
There are no words….
February 26th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
DesertRat, it’s not like they’ve ever demonstrated that they care about human life once it exits the womb.
February 26th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I mean, except when it’s a frozen embryo or in a persistent vegatative state.
February 27th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Prenatal testing is directed at diseases that can cause harm to the developing fetus (such as rubella, blood typing, diabetes screening) and diseases that are caused by the same risk factor as that which caused the pregnancy in the first place: sex. We test for Hepatitis B, HIV, syphilis, and we do a gonorrhea and chlamydia screening with the initial pap test.
February 27th, 2009 at 6:46 am
This guy is still one or two steps to the left of Russell Pierce and Al Melvin.