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In a move that surprised exactly no one, Fox News has launched a shrill protest against the Obama administrations’ decision to have heath insurance companies provide counseling for abused women with no co-pays (among several other benefits for women).
While it has always been clear that reason and compassion are not Fox’s strong points, one would hope that battered women would be a subject they might tread lightly around. Then I remembered that, on Fox, a rape/murder is the fault of the victim for dressing sexy.
Whatever was I thinking?
From Family PAC Federal Vice President Sandy Rios on Fox:
“Is the White House out of their mind? Does the West Wing not know what the left wing is doing? We’re $14 trillion in debt and now we’re going to cover birth control, breast pumps, counseling for abuse? Are we going to do pedicures and manicures as well?”
Ah. I see. Getting help for battered women is just as frivolous as pedicures. Perhaps they should just accept their lot in life and get back in the kitchen and cover up that black eye like a good, submissive woman should? I would pay good, hard money to see this parasite walk up to a woman that received the help she needed and tell this survivor that she didn’t deserve it. How do you think that would go?
As for Sandy’s ingenious math, perhaps she can explain how a couple of hundred of dollars worth of birth control cost taxpayers more than years of WIC and Medicare for women that can’t afford an unwanted pregnancy? And before some genius social conservative demands that unmarried women shouldn’t have sex anyway, what about the married women who can’t afford children? Should they be denied birth control as well? They’re married so they can have allll the sex they want, right? What if they don’t want kids? What’s that? Sex should be for making babies only? That sounds suspiciously like a religious argument. You know who else wants to regulate all consensual sex and use religion as the final authority on governmental policy? Muslim extremists and Christian extremists.
I’d hate to think Fox would have anything to do with people like that….but I wouldn’t bet against it.
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In a move that surprised exactly no one,
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- 6 votes
#1 - Wed Aug 3, 2011 7:47 PM EDTIn a famous episode of Twilight Zone (both the TV series and the movie) a raving bigot finds himself put in the position of blacks, Jews and other minorities.
Flux Spews' and the Teaberculosis Party's patriarchal, Old Testament-revising-and-hugging, classist and repressive jerks should all wake up and find themselves poor, unintentionally pregnant and living with an abusive husband or boyfriend. For variety, the harder cases should also be a racial or religious minority, and perhaps, lesbian as well.
That just might wipe the smug and clueless smirks off their faces.
- 2 votes
Many times w/o a good helping hand, women have no recourse at the bottom emotionally but to return to the abuser. When children are in the mix, it is a more difficult decision for women to be able to come back or to leave forever.
Hopefully, people will realize that it is just not the victims that we see, but it is also the group of victims that hide behind a frightened smile. A smack in the head does not always encompass the only abuse to the victims and their children.
With encouragement, women can escape from the cruelty and hopefully go on from there. I have seen some successes, but just as equally, I have seen some losses even among many elderly women.
FOX news is no better than a group of non-thinking kids playing at a make believe pretense of speaking out for the public. How wrong they are.
- 4 votes
#2 - Wed Aug 3, 2011 8:18 PM EDTNow I will shine a light on Fox News and call them for what they are, an enabler.
- 1 vote
#3 - Wed Aug 3, 2011 10:57 PM EDTCounseling for abused women? What are you going to tell them they haven't heard before? "it's not your fault?" " he hates himself and takes it out on you?" here is some advice for you-if he pops you ever, even once, move on down the road. If you don't, no one wants to pay for you to hear the same advice from someone else.
#4 - Wed Aug 3, 2011 11:16 PM EDTWOW! You really don't understand domestic violence, do you?
- 4 votes
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