How Republican Policies INCREASE Abortion Rates

A PROGRAM AIMED AT HELPING REDUCE THE NUMBER OF TEEN
PREGNANCIES HAS BEEN CUT SHORT BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, IT
WAS KNOWN AS --
IT FOCUSES ON REACHING POPULATIONS WITH THE GREATEST
NEED.
THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO GIVE TEENS THE
INFORMATION AND SEX EDUCATION NECESSARY TO PREVENT THEM FROM
GETTING PREGNANT, BUT OF COURSE SINCE IT'S NOT A FULLY
ABSTINENCE ONLY BASED PROGRAM MEMBERS OF TRUMP'S
ADMINISTRATION HAVE DECIDED TO DO AWAY WITH IT.
THEY CUT THE
PROGRAM SHORT, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO LAST ABOUT FIVE YEARS, THEY
CUT IT DOWN TO THREE YEARS.
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES --
THAT IS PROBABLY WHAT REALLY UPSET SOME OF THE MORE
RIGHT-WING MEMBERS OF TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION.
FOR INSTANCE --
VALERIE
ABSOLUTELY HATES COMPREHENSIVE SEX ED, SHE THINKS
ABSTINENCE ONLY SEX ED IS THE ONLY TYPE OF SEX EDUCATION
STUDENTS SHOULD GET.
BUT SHE'S WRONG, AND I HAVE NUMBERS FOR
YOU IN A SECOND, YOU GUYS JUMP IN.
THIS IS NOT THAT MUCH ON TRUMP.
HE'S IN CHARGE SO OF
COURSE FEEL FREE TO BLAME HIM, BUT THIS IS MORE STANDARD
CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS LIKE MIKE PENCE WHO WANT THIS TO
HAPPEN, AND TOM PRICE, HEAD OF THIS DEPARTMENT.
THEY THINK
HUMAN NATURE IS OPTIONAL, AND THAT WHEN PEOPLE HIT PUBERTY
THEY DON'T WANT TO HAVE SEX, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TELL THEM NOT
TO HAVE SEX, OR MAYBE YELL AT THEM OR SOMETHING, BE A LITTLE
STERN, AND THEY WILL GO OH, ALL MY HUMAN SEX DRIVE IS GONE,
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AND WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE FACT THAT PEOPLE GET MARRIED LATER IN
LIFE, IT'S NOT THE 1950S, PEOPLE GET MARRIED IN SOME CASES IN
THEIR 30S -- YOU EXPECT PEOPLE TO BE ABSTINENT UNTIL THEIR 30S?
IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TEENAGERS BETWEEN 13 AND 18, YOU
ARE STILL WRONG IF YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO GET PREGNANT -- AND
BY THE WAY, THIS WILL INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ABORTIONS.
SO WAY
TO BE COUNTER PRODUCTIVE.
BUT WHEN YOU GET ABOVE THE AGE OF 18
AND YOU TELL PEOPLE DON'T HAVE PREMARITAL SEX, THAT'S LIKE,
YOUR OPINION, MAN.
I COULDN'T CARE LESS WHAT YOU THINK.
BUT MY
SKY GOD TOLD ME THIS -- THAT IS BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR SKY GOD,
DUDE.
IF YOU WANT TO BE HORNY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE -- I
DON'T EVEN WANT THAT, BECAUSE YOU WILL TAKE IT OUT IN
DIFFERENT WAYS -- BUT THIS IS AMERICA, THE MEMBER THAT THING
CALLED FREEDOM?
BUTT OUT OF OUR LIVES.
WHEN DONALD TRUMP RUNS FOR PRESIDENT YOU SAY HE WILL NEVER
WIN THE EVANGELICALS -- THIS IS WHY EVEN TOTALS COME HOME.
THEY
KNOW THAT WITHIN REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONS THEY WILL GET
THIS KIND OF THOUGHT BECAUSE OF THE INFLUENCE OF MIKE PENCE, OF
TOM PRICE --
SO THEY WILL GET POLICY THAT THEY LIKE, BUT YOUR POLICY IS SO
COUNTERPRODUCTIVE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE AGAINST ABORTION, RISING
HEALTHCARE COSTS -- LOOK, THE REASON OBAMA MADE BIRTH-CONTROL
WERE AVAILABLE, OR EASILY OBTAINABLE, WAS BECAUSE WE SPEND
A LOT OF MONEY ON UNWANTED PREGNANCIES.
WE SPEND $11
BILLION A YEAR ON UNWANTED PREGNANCIES.
OBAMA DIDN'T MAKE
THAT PART OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT IN AN EFFORT TO TELL
EVERYONE LET'S ALL FUCK AROUND -- HE DID IT TO SAVE MONEY.
I THINK MEMBER THAT SPEECH.
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN FUN IF HE DELIVERED IT THAT WAY.
AT HIS CHURCH.
PEOPLE THINK WOMEN ARE KNOCKING DOWN BOTTLES OF
BIRTH-CONTROL THINKING WE WANT TO BE LOOSE AND HAVE FUN -- NO,
WE ARE TRYING TO SAVE MONEY.
WE DON'T WANT TEENAGERS TO GET
PREGNANT.
WE HAVE ACTUAL DATA, WHO CARES ABOUT OPINIONS?
IF YOU
WANT TO COMPARE TWO STATES THAT HAVE DIFFERENT POLICIES ON SEX
ED, YOU CAN LOOK AT NEW HAMPSHIRE.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ONLY
ALLOWS COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION WHERE THEY SAY TO
TEENAGERS IT'S PROBABLY BETTER IF YOU WAIT, BUT IF YOU DON'T
HEAR IS HOW YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF.
COMPREHENSIVE SEX ED.
THEY HAVE THE LOWEST TEEN BIRTH RATES OF ANY OTHER STATE IN THE
U.S., ABOUT 10.8 PER 1000 TEENS AGE 15 TO 19.
THEN YOU GO TO
MISSISSIPPI WHERE THEY ONLY ALLOW ABSTINENCE ONLY EDUCATION,
AND THEIR BIRTH RATE IS MUCH HIGHER.
THE TEEN BIRTH RATE IS
34.8 PER 1000 TEENS.
THERE IS A HUGE DISPARITY THERE, RIGHT?
LET'S ALSO COMPARE ADMINISTRATIONS.
WHICH COMES
INTO OFFICE, SAME CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY PREVAILS, AND THE TEEN
PREGNANCY RATE INCREASES SIGNIFICANTLY.
40.2 PER 1000
TEENAGERS.
THEN YOU GO TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, WHERE HE
GOES I'M DEFUNDING THESE ABSTINENCE ONLY PROGRAMS BECAUSE
THEY DON'T WORK AND FOCUSING MORE ON COMPREHENSIVE SEX ED --
TEEN PREGNANCY RATE DECREASES, 20.3 PER 1000 WOMEN.
I WANT US
TO BE SMART, I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE'S RELIGION, I DON'T CARE
ABOUT ANYONE'S OPINION, I CARE ABOUT ACTUAL NUMBERS AND DOING
SOMETHING THAT WILL DECREASE THE NUMBER OF ABORTIONS, HERE'S AN
EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING THAT WILL -- COME PERHAPS OF SEX ED.
TEENS
ARE GOING TO HAVE SEX, I KNOW YOU LIKE IT, BUT IT'S A FACT OF
LIFE.
I DO CARE ABOUT THEIR RELIGION BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND
IT.
THERE ARE TWO PARTS OF IT -- IF YOU VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN YOU
WILL GET THIS.
DON'T DELUDE YOURSELF AND SAY THERE ARE SOME
MODERATE REPUBLICANS -- EVERY REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT HAS DONE
ABSTINENCE ONLY AND INCREASED TEEN PREGNANCY.
THAT WORKS BOTH WAYS.
IF YOU ARE A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN, A
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY GUY, IF YOU VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN EVEN
IF HE'S NOT LIKE YOU ARE RELIGIOUSLY, YOU WILL GET THIS.
IF YOU ARE EVANGELICAL, YOU WILL GET MORE ABORTIONS IN THE
COUNTRY.
IF YOU ARE LIKE, I HATE BIRTH-CONTROL SO MUCH THAT I'M
WILLING TO HAVE MORE ABORTIONS, OKAY.
THAT'S YOUR CALL BUT
UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE GETTING.
THAT'S YOUR CALL.
AND THE OTHER PART OF IT IS, LOOK, I THINK MODERATE
CHRISTIANS HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY HERE TO REIN IN THEIR EXTREME
CHRISTIANS.
BECAUSE THESE EXTREME CHRISTIANS BELIEVE YOU
SHOULDN'T DO BIRTH-CONTROL, WHEN 99% OF THE COUNTRY AGREES WE
SHOULD BE UNDER CONTROL.
THEY DO IT WITH THEIR ACTIONS.
SINGLE
WOMEN ARE ON BIRTH CONTROL IN OVERWHELMING NUMBERS.
FORGET
SINGLE WOMEN, MARRIED WOMEN.
ALL ADULT WOMEN ARE ON BIRTH CONTROL
IN OVERWHELMING PERCENTAGES.
SO IT IS ONLY MINORITY EXTREME
CHRISTIANS DICTATING THE POLICY FOR THE REST OF US.
CHRISTIANS
ARE THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY SO MODERATE CHRISTIANS, IT'S ON
YOU.

How Republican Policies INCREASE Abortion Rates

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