Wired’s Robin George Andrews thinks she totally has the solution to fixing this whole (made up) issue
TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE, EDUCATE GIRLS AND GIVE THEM BIRTH CONTROL
CLIMATE CHANGE IS a ubiquitous hydra, a many-headed beast that affects everyone and everything in some form. Solutions to climate change range from the effective and the practical to the potentially catastrophically dangerous—but, in this somewhat heated debate, a potent weapon in our arsenal is falling by the wayside: the empowerment of women.
Last year a coalition of scientists, economists, policymakers, researchers, and business people published Project Drawdown, a compendium of ways to prevent carbon dioxide from escaping skywards. Drawing from a plethora of peer-reviewed research, the document ranks 80 practical, mitigating measures—along with 20 near-future concepts—that could push back the oncoming storm. (snip)
But two lesser-known solutions also made this most practical of lists: the education of girls (number 6) and family planning (number 7). This is a stunning revelation, one that couldn’t be more pertinent, and yet, for the most part, discussions of mitigation and de-carbonization focus heavily on other matters, from the perceived perils and bona fide benefits of nuclear power, to just how quickly solar power is proliferating.
Got that? We have to educate girl because of Hotcoldwetdry. Not because they deserve education (most education systems in the 1st World are run by leftists: why are they not educating girls already?), but because of a manufactured issue based on junk science. Hey, I wonder if these same Warmists will finally take on Islam, and especially Islam, for their treatment of women?
Then there’s family planning, something that’s indivisible from the education of girls. The planet is overpopulated, and the demands of its citizens greatly exceed the natural resources provided by our environment.
Contraception and prenatal care is denied to women across the world, from those in the United States, to communities in low-income nations. It’s either not available, not affordable, or social and/or religious motives ensure that it’s banned or heavily restricted. As a consequence, the world’s population will rise rapidly, consume ever more resources, and power its ambitions using fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide will continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.
What they really mean is contraception to make sure “minorities”, ie, Africans and Asians, in 3rd world countries do not breed, via contraception and abortion.
It’s farcical that this isn’t forming a major part of the debate over climate change mitigation. It’s not entirely clear why this is the case, but I’d suspect that regressive societal attitudes, along with the tendency of commentators to focus on the battle between different energy sectors, play suppressive roles in this regard.
Or, it could be that some people, even in the high end Warmist community, think it’s a Bad Idea to make the racist notion of aborting, sterilizing, and reducing the population in 3rd world countries a top shelf talking point. Even though this type of eugenics idea has been part of Progressive dogma for over 100 years.
I’m sorry, but where in the United States are girls “denied” access to contraception? Is there a place in the US where girls are not allowed to go to the public schools?
Denied access = not paying for someone else’s personal lifestyle choices. That’s why women’s healthcare access means that the taxpayer must pay for a $8k abortion.
Denied Access: Orwell cries when he hears the shit the modern democrats come up with.
The future belongs to those that show up.
Q: Who went ballistic when conservatives proposed making birth control available over-the-counter?
A: Planned Parenthood.
I am morally opposed to abortion and resent being forced to be a part of infanticide through my tax dollars. I know that despite a plurality of citizens being against abortion it will never be allowed to be banned or heavily restricted. I would settle for tax dollars being banned from funding abortion or going to any entity that performs abortions (funds are fungible). I have a sneaking suspicion that demand would dry up when the client had to pay $8k for it.
Of course the judiciary would never stand for it because the constitution calls for infanticide on the public dime, or something.
A plurality of Americans (at least) favor more restrictions on abortion, not fewer. Planned Parenthood touts itself as standing for women’s health, but almost none of its money goes to cancer screening or anything health-related. It’s Genocide, Inc., pure and simple.
Here’s the Planned Parenthood report, 2016/2017:
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/d4/50/d450c016-a6a9-4455-bf7f-711067db5ff7/20171229_ar16-17_p01_lowres.pdf
4.4 million STI tests
2.7 million Contraception services
1.3 million Pregnancy tests and related
0.6 million Breast exams/Pap tests
0.3 million abortions
3% of their procedures are abortions.
This Gallup historical poll on abortion, 1975-2018.
http://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/Abortion.aspx
Now breakdown their (legal) income by procedure…
The report eventually states that 321,384 abortions were performed. That’s 880 to 881 abortions performed PER DAY. Or 37 abortions AN HOUR. Add in the 730,329 ’emergency contraceptives’ they hand out and that’s 1,051,713 murdered children last year. Compare this to the miniscule 3,889 adoption referrals they made and it is painfully obvious that their focus is on murder and not the child’s life.
Now be our guest… breakdown away. Do you have a point?
You’ve had econ, yes? An abortion that is billed to Uncle Sugar for $8,000 @345,000 is a better part of their bottom line than $50 billed to same @2.7 million units.
HillBillary,
You may be confused.
Planned Parenthood does not bill the government for abortions. Although it varies year to year based on its annual reauthorization, the Hyde Amendment prevents the use of federal funds for abortion (some years abortions after rape or incest are permitted). Some years conservatives ban paying for abortions after rape or incest! The House passed a bill in 2017 making the Hyde Amendment permanent… waiting on the Senate. You should read up on the Hyde Amendment.
PP gets about one third of its funding from government, some from the feds, some from the states.
Repeat after me: “Money is fungible.”
Now go look up “fungible.”
You stand by while a million children a year are murdered??? You don’t even believe that yourself, or you’d do something about it. It’s propaganda.
You even call contraception murder! By your definition Jesus murders more children a year than PP, what with the spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) he oversees. (There are more miscarriages than therapeutic abortions.)
Murder is illegal. Abortion is legal. Contraception is legal, and desirable (at least for women).
You are being intentionally obtuse, “emergency contraception” is the marketing name for an early stage chemically induced abortion.
We understand the mechanics of emergency contraception, which is also legal. Do you view emergency contraception, which is used when an unwanted conception MAY have occurred, as murder? If a woman is raped (or in tRump-speak, “gives in”) is it murder to take a pill that either blocks ovulation or prevents fertilization?
Can you cite the medical literature that EC is an abortifacient (even if it is, it’s legal).
In your world would you strain the expulsion for signs of an embryo before you charged her and her druggist with murder? Would those guilty of “murder” of an embryo face the same penalties as a man who shoots kids?
What crime did the baby commit?
Abortion is not about babies, but embryos and fetuses.
We understand your feelings. We wish there were no abortions ever. We wish women never miscarried. We wish that no one ever got ill and died.
A black person defending Planned Parenthood is a little like a rabbi defending Hitler.
Do you think Planned Parenthood forces women to have abortions? Or are you just trolling?
The abortion rate was halved from the Reagan peak (29.3/1K) to the Obama trough (14.6/1K). Will it go back up under tRump?
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54% were christians, including 13% evangelicals, 24% catholics…
And the Con Men want to reduce access to contraception even though contraception access decreases the abortion rate. Is it “babies” you care about, or controlling your women?
Slash the safety net AND make contraception harder to obtain, and you get more abortions.
Are you sure you are interested in “babies”?
And all of these patients have Medicaid which will pay for the abortion and other medical needs. Planed Parenthood is a redundant expense and does not serve a purpose except to channel money to the Democrats.
Interesting fact:
The population of St. Louis is aborted each year.
Not true, planned parenthood aborts equal to the population of St Louis. With all abortion providers it’s almost double.
No disrespect but even with the addendum the statement is still “true”.
You’re right, I stand corrected.