No worries. I've been busy running around because there appears to be a rumor running around LJ that Massachusetts is going to be outlawing abortions. It appears someone came across an old article interviewing our outgoing loser of a governor who said he'd approve any anti-choice measure and given the current culture of paranoia...
Needless to say, he's not up for re-election this November and all the gubenatorial candidates can't yell, "I'm pro-choice!" loud enough because they know there'll be riots if abortion was outlawed in this state. Not that we're liberal, liberal about it. We're middle-of-the-road for laws and access. Perfectly mushy-middle.
But, yeah, my issue is that there's a very simple way to decrease the abortion rate and that's to improve sex education and increase access to birth control. Let's make it rare and safe. I'm on board with that.
The other thing that frosts me is that there's an awful lot of lyin' goin' on about birth control and sex education. Nothing pisses off people more than being lied to. Life will generally clue you in on what's a lie and what's not. I can only imagine some kid who got stuck with abstinance-only discovering the wonderful world of sex and figuring out that an awful lot of adults fed him or her an awful lot of bullshit.
As for the condoms...heeeeee! Once a bunch of us were making a gore -slasher film for someone in film school. We decided that we'd make bloodpacks and use condoms to hold the concoction until the moment when the actors would have to burst them.
What we got were a lot of corn syrup-filled condoms that wouldn't burst. People had to stab their condums repeatedly with pins to even get a "blood" trickle. It was funny as all hell.
Re: I live in MS
Needless to say, he's not up for re-election this November and all the gubenatorial candidates can't yell, "I'm pro-choice!" loud enough because they know there'll be riots if abortion was outlawed in this state. Not that we're liberal, liberal about it. We're middle-of-the-road for laws and access. Perfectly mushy-middle.
But, yeah, my issue is that there's a very simple way to decrease the abortion rate and that's to improve sex education and increase access to birth control. Let's make it rare and safe. I'm on board with that.
The other thing that frosts me is that there's an awful lot of lyin' goin' on about birth control and sex education. Nothing pisses off people more than being lied to. Life will generally clue you in on what's a lie and what's not. I can only imagine some kid who got stuck with abstinance-only discovering the wonderful world of sex and figuring out that an awful lot of adults fed him or her an awful lot of bullshit.
As for the condoms...heeeeee! Once a bunch of us were making a gore -slasher film for someone in film school. We decided that we'd make bloodpacks and use condoms to hold the concoction until the moment when the actors would have to burst them.
What we got were a lot of corn syrup-filled condoms that wouldn't burst. People had to stab their condums repeatedly with pins to even get a "blood" trickle. It was funny as all hell.