okie wrote:A quote of Obama:
"But it should also include -- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/348569.aspx
Thats news to alot of people that babies were punishment! Maybe he should tell his daughters that babies may happen when they mate with the opposite sex, and that doing so brings responsibility, not punishment.
I know what the guy was aiming to say, but in my opinion, he missed the target big time, and more or less betrays his mindset.
Here is what Obama said:
"When it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include ?- which should include abstinence education and teaching the children ?- teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include ?- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at the age of 16. You know, so it doesn't make sense to not give them information."
A baby shouldn't be punishment but...that's exactly what babies become when you force pregnancy on someone. The "pro-life" movement very much uses forced pregnancy as a slut-punishing tool, placing children squarely in the category of "punishment" rather than "joy." Yet somehow they manage to argue that they're the ones who actually care about children ?- even as they cut off children's health care; even as 100 percent of the worst legislators of children are "pro-life;" even as they think babies should be physically forced on women instead of joyfully and openly wanted.
Good on Obama for calling that out, however quietly.