Miss Mary Smack makes a point

Miss Mary Smack gives us the 'skinny':



a young woman called me looking for help because she needed a new place to stay and had 2 toddlers and no job, no HS diploma. Thing is, she was drinkin' and druggin' last weekend pretty hard , "I don't know why I was like that more than I usually am and well, apparently I met this guy and I pretty much realized on Wednesday that I had married him on October 10th." So I says to her, "Uhm, how do you know you're actually married?" and she said that she found the license on the kitchen table. So I pursued this line of questioning as I am highly trained to do and inquired, "Were you intoxicated when this marriage was performed?" She said, "No, not really,I mean, I wasn't like drunk or nothing, it just seemed like a good thing to do at the time but I think it was a mistake because I only met him maybe Friday."

I counseled her to get herself and her 1 and 3 year old down to the court house and tell the clerk she had indeed been under the influence and needed an annulment. Then, since the Salvation Army shelter is right next door to just go right on over and check in.

Jesus flipping Christ, the people I have to deal with. This indiscriminant breeding and retention of children by completely inadequate mothers is a national goddam disgrace. Then I have to read shit about another goddam Bush appointee from Regent or Liberty University. Read this and then go scream into a pillow somewhere:


On Monday, President Bush appointed Susan Orr Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a position that gives her oversight of federal family planning programs. Orr, who is currently directing HHS child welfare programs, was touted by the administration as "highly qualified." Before joining HHS, Orr served as senior director for marriage and family care at the conservative Family Research Council, which opposes family planning, and was an adjunct professor at Pat Robertson's Regent University. In her new role, Orr, who considers contraceptives part of the "culture of death," will be responsible for "HHS's $283 million reproductive-health program, a $30 million program that encourages abstinence among teenagers, and HHS's Office of Population Affairs, which funds birth control, pregnancy tests, counseling, and screenings for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV." Given Orr's record of opposition to comprehensive family planning services, women's rights and reproductive health advocates are speaking out strongly against her appointment. "We are appalled," said Mary Jane Gallagher, president of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. "While her resume suggests a commitment to child welfare and children, her professional credentials fail to demonstrate a commitment to comprehensive family planning services for all men and women in need." Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) called her appointment "absurd." Referring to her as "a virulently anti-family planning radical," Planned Parenthood has circulated a petition opposing Orr. Unfortunately, though, appointing Orr as an "acting" secretary allows the administration to sidestep the need for Senate confirmation.A RECORD AGAINST FAMILY PLANNING: In 2001, Orr embraced a Bush administration proposal to "stop requiring all health insurance plans for federal employees" to cover a broad range of birth control. "We're quite pleased, because fertility is not a disease," said Orr. At the 2001 Conservative Political Action Conference, Orr cheered Bush's endorsement of former President Ronald Reagan's "Mexico City Policy," which required NGOs receiving federal funds to "neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations." In a 2000 Weekly Standard article, Orr railed against requiring health insurance plans to cover contraceptives. "It's not about choice," said Orr. "It's not about health care. It's about making everyone collaborators with the culture of death." In 2000, she authored a paper titled, "Real Women Stay Married." In it, she wrote that women should "think about focusing our eyes, not upon ourselves, but upon the families we form through marriage." In 1999, Orr referred to child protection as "the most intrusive arm of social services." Her former employer, the Family Research Council, which championed her appointment yesterday, equates contraception with abortion.
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/progressreport



Torque Wrench spells it out:



Hello!!! You, Driver, asleep at the wheel!!! How the flippin' Christ do we get babies to stop having babies if we insist that the only answer to unwanted pregnancy is through ABSTINENCE??? HUH?? If you tie the hands of social services and take sex ed out of schools and tell Wal Mart pharmacists that they can refuse to fill prescriptions on 'religious principle' where PRAY TELL do these uneducated women go for MUCH NEEDED BIRTH CONTROL!!! Because religious feelings aside, DOES ANYONE GIVE A GOOD GODDAMN ABOUT THE CHILDREN BORN TO THESE WOMEN??? OR the conditions they live in? Uh HUH...didn't think so. All these ideas of right or wrong are just that- ideas, because the reality is there are REAL CHILDREN living with the consequences and before I fall off this soap box and break my goddamn ankle I will say this: Until we as a nation wrap our fool heads around the simple truth, that we are only as strong as our weakest link, we are doomed!!