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July 16, 2014 09:41 AM UTC
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And of course, the Denver Post unquestioningly reprints Gardner's bullshit. What a fucking joke.
Mr. Gardner Adds to His Credibility Deficit
The problem Mr. Gardner has is he is still talking about abortion four months after he threw the Personhood Amendment under the bus. His lastest statement merely prolongs the agony. As Coloradopols points out, the federal Personhood Amendment is no different than the key provision in the Colorado amendment. He is still trying to have it both ways. On the one hand he supports the federal Personhood Amendment that aims to outlaw contraception, while on the other he favors over-the-counter sales of contraceptives. His position makes no sense. On the one hand he favors banning contraceptrives, yet on the other he wants to sell them over the counter. You can't prescribe or sell something over the counter if its been banned. Mr. Gardner needs to explain how that works.
There is no way out for him. He will be trying to explain this for the remainder of the campaign but because of his contradictory positions, he won't be able to. He continues to destroy his credibility.
There's a growing scientific consensus that hormonal birth control and IUDs normally act by preventing fertilization rather than preventing implantation of the fertilized egg as previously thought. Hooray! Cory is getting the science right!
Well… except that the pro-life lobby that has pushed for Gardner's federal personhood legislation as well as the supporters of the Colorado personhood amendments openly state that their measures would outlaw certain forms of contraception. The Hobby Lobby case even pivoted on the owners' "sincerely held belief" that contraception was a form of abortion.
It's really too bad that it's just the campaign lying and obfuscating the record again. I would've enjoyed a conservative embracing scientific consensus for once.
An excellet point, but the science isn't there yet, though the evidence is growing particuarly for the morning-after pill and Ella, which are not considered a threat to zygotes anymore. There's stil uncertainty about the copper IUD in particular. It's tricky because scientists still express uncertainty about how some forms of birth control work (and then there's the problem of what happens to zygotes in certain circumstances when tthey fail). And there's the problem of how a jury, assessing the possibility of murder, might react to such uncertainty in evaluating whether a personhood law requires banning certain forms of birth control.
Don't know what you mean by "growing scientific consensus" that hormonal birth control works by preventing fertilization. Not only is that exactly what the pill was designed to do, it was designed to do it by preventing ovulation in the first place. No ovulation. No egg present to be fertilized. No conception. No pregnancy. It's not as if the pill is some mysterious thing that acts in ways scientists are just beginning to understand. In my public school system we learned about it in sex education classes that were still called "health" back before the end of the 60s, for God's sake.
There have been various kinds available, lower dose, higher dose and other differences with hormones used. As with all medications there has never been an ironclad guarantee that hormonal birth control will always work exactly as advertised for each individual and there have always been possible side effects. But scientists are certainly not just now discovering how it works.
@BC
I disagree. Jason is right that scientific research is ongoing. and researchers are still discovering "how it works. The birth control pill was designed to suppress ovulation. Originally, the increased risk of storke and some cancers had not been identified. That is one reason the hormone dosage has consistently been reduced. With the reduction, it may well be that ovulation is not suppressed, but implantation is prevented or the environment of the cervix is changed to discourage the movement of sperm. Science is always ongoing.
It was only a few years ago, that HRT was prescribed for memoposal women because it was thought to reduce the risk of heart dieases. Scientific studies showed that not only did HRT not decrease the risk of heart diseas, but it was a risk factor for that disease as well as breast cancer.
Plan B is emergency contraceptive. If it only prevented ovulation, then ithe instructions would include the information that if ovulation had already occured, Plan B would not work to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex.
Science is still finding out how contraceptives work. HEre is a link to the NEW findings that Plan B is not effective for women who weigh 176 lbs or more.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/11/26/247226093/emergency-contraceptive-pill-might-be-ineffective-for-obese
There is also some research that suggests that the effectiveness of ordinary birth control pills is impacted by a woman's weight.
Like your typo, dwyer: "The increased risk of storks"
Those storks do like to be effective about leavin the babes in the cabbage patch, or however the delivery service works these days.
From the Planned Parenthood site:
@mj55
The issue is whether or not the science on how the birth control pill works is settled. I cited examples of conclusions from ONGOING scientific research that widened knowledge about what we know on how "the pill." works.
Perhaps the imost important research finding RECENTLY concerns the effectiveness of Plan B: Here, is the link from Planned Parenthood:
http://plannedparenthood.tumblr.com/post/68197145284/does-my-weight-affect-which-emergency-contraception-i
Here we go again. Either he's a fool or he thinks I am. Sorry, Cory, I'm not. Guess that leaves you.
I'd say that's an accurate analogy for Gardner's chances, Moddy. 🙂
So, if your side brings up Dunlap, guns or whatever they're been pounding Hick on for the past year we can levy the same argument against them, correct?
Oh, and the ACA when it comes to Udall.
OK. Modster's looking more like a very simple and limited computer program every day. This is another repeat. Like "running scared". It apparently has only a small assortment of responses to plug in. This is the one for when you can't deny that some rightie pol said what he/she said or did what he/she did even though you're calling people liars for alluding to it.