Trump selects anti-contraceptive activist Teresa Manning to Dept.

>Throughout the 90s Manning also worked for pro-life organization the National Right to Life Committee and in 2003 edited the 300-page book Back to the Drawing Board: The Future of the Pro-Life Movement in which she said the movement was "not winning" against pro-choice advocates.

>An essay in the book by retired Notre Dame law professor Charles E. Rice called the principle behind contraception and legalized abortion "agnostic secularism" and said it was what “underlay the Nazi extermination of the Jews."

>Another essay in the collection by Canadian psychotherapist Philip Ney argued the trauma of an aborted baby is "transmitted across the placental barrier by hormones" and that any future children the mother bears may carry "existential guilt" about their dead sibling that might lead them to "violence" and "terrorism."

>In an interview about the book with NPR in 2003 Manning said “contraception doesn’t work” and that women taking the pill will eventually get pregnant. If taken correctly, however, contraceptive pills are proven to be 99 percent effective.

>Views like these were cited when she didn’t get a legal analysis, writing, and research position she applied for at the University of Iowa College of Law in 2006. A letter by the school’s Associate Dean Jonathan C. Carlson to the school’s dean worried “people may be opposed to Teresa serving in any role, in part at least because they so despise her politics (and especially her activism about it).”

>Manning sued the school, alleging their hiring practices discriminated against her political beliefs. In 2015 a jury found that the university had not discriminated against Manning after several professors testified that she said she would not teach analysis, which was a key part of the job.

>She has since been working as an adjunct professor teaching legal research and writing at the conservative Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, and as a writing specialist at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute.

>Critics immediately voiced concerns at Trump’s decision to appoint Manning. “Teresa Manning has made a career out of denying women their right to reproductive health care services,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, in a statement Monday. “It’s unconscionable and insulting that a vocal opponent of essential health care services has been tapped to lead the nation’s family planning program.”

>Northup added that by picking Manning, President Trump showed he is prioritizing “an extreme agenda over women’s health and well-being.” Manning will be working alongside anti-abortion advocate Charmaine Yoest, who Trump appointed assistant secretary of public affairs at HHS on April 28.

>“This is the fox guarding the hen house, and women with low incomes will pay the price. It is a cruel irony to appoint an opponent of birth control to oversee the nation’s only federal program dedicated to family planning,” said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood, in a statement calling on Trump to withdraw Manning’s appointment.

>“We are at the lowest rate of unintended pregnancy in 30 years and a historic low for teen pregnancy because of access to birth control,” Laguens said. “Someone who promotes myths about birth control and reproductive care should not be in charge of the office that is responsible for family planning.”

>>136551
I can't figure out if it's Reince or Bannon who is actually making these picks.

>>136566
Who cares if they're great pics nerd

>>136569
You think a pic of an egg being fertilized is great?

>>136569
Anything that keeps these liberal tears coming is good in my book.

>>136551
this is great news! with the removal of family planning program, young sexual kids will not have kids knowing they wont get any support. a good way to improve real family building.

>>136572
Because liberal tears outweighs the cons of an increase in unwanted/unplanned pregnancies?

>>136582
the cons of unwanted/unplanned pregnancies can be avoided with better sex education and condoms.

>>136586
Condoms are contraceptives though.

>>136586
>better sex education and condoms.
"Durr don't have sex, okay kids?"
"and always masturbate into a balloon. Really makes having a relationship worth it."
>Flawless advice

>>136551
contraceptives should be banned. contraceptives did help prevent unwanted pregnancies but also it created the mentality of "abusing" sex for pleasure and not for family planning

>>136591
its not telling kids do not have sex, but sex comes with responsibility.
If you can handle responsibility.

>>136586
You think they're fine with condoms?

>>136595
It's also telling them that they're going to be more likely to fuck up, and have an unwanted pregnancy.

>>136586
Why allow condoms but not the morning after pill? Both support sinful sex outside of marriage with strangers.

>>136586
>anti-contraceptive
>hurr durr just use condoms

>>136591
Relationships should be about more then sex.

>>136621
They should also be about more than an unwanted teen pregnancy.

And republitards will cheer this on won't they.
NEWSFLASH FUCKTARDS
Blacks get FAR more abortions than whites. If there were never any legalized abortion in our country blacks wouldnt be 13% of the population they'd be around 20-30% at least. Oh and guess which way the unaborted brown skins are going to vote you stupid fucking dipshits?

>>136623
Of course. But I do agree with >>136595
If you want to take the next step you need to understand what that means. Sex should not be made into something trivial and should be an act of love and trust.

As a side note, I do support contraceptives. I just despise the current Hookup culture in the US.

>>136626
Can you prove that birth control pills and hormonal ovulation blockers have done all the things people say they have?

From where I am standing, I have not seen a single study or even an article that shows birth control assisting in poverty, teen pregnancy, or general welfare.

In fact, all those things were fine until the 1970s.

>>136626
STOP bringing up race retard.

>>136627
>Sex should not be made into something trivial and should be an act of love and trust.
This is exactly why contraceptives like condoms and morning after pills are destroying the real act of "sex"

>>136610
>It's also telling them that they're going to be more likely to fuck up, and have an unwanted pregnancy.
exactly, with strict sex ed, you could teach your teen/kids the responsibility of having sex. contraceptives do not help at all in educating, it just allows teens to ignore any responsibility and just fuck away. hence, our current fuck-around culture.

>>136666
whatever your view of sex may be, limiting access to contraceptives or birth control isn't going to cause people to stop having sex. Sex is too much fun. All it's going to do is cause unwanted teen pregnancies and abortions to go up

Guess she's anti-4chan as well

>>136881
We have loads of hard statistical data about this. What else is it going to take to make people understand that folks aren't going to magically change behavior if we don't do any different tactics than all the other times abstinence only has been tried, I don't understand. It seems to me people either have to be willfully deluding themselves or just not giving a shit about all the potential consequences of unwanted teen pregnancy at this point. And it's going to be disproportionately teenagers and disproportionately from lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder, and with restricted access to safe and effective abortions.

>>136884
Get ready for them to come for your porn. With our current momentum, it's a matter of time.

>>136667
>our current fuck around culture
The least sexually active generations of teens since the 50s? All this anti-contreception nonsense will do is spike teen pregnancies.

The shill is strong with this thread.