Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Legislature / Woods Christian Right Scores Victory for Incestuous Fathers
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:10 PM
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Why so anti christian? I did not hear any reference to his religion. Did he mention it in his testimony? Can't we all coexist?
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Your entire counter-argument hinges on a claim that parents always have nefarious uses for their children's medical records . . . when in overwhelming fact, they do not. There are many valid reasons to make denial of medical records to a parent or guardian illegal, not the least of which is that a parent has a right to know if their daughter has been having sex @ 15, has been raped, has STD's, or lied to get an abortion. I say "parent" because "incestuous father" is really a HUGE stretch . . . so much so as to be virtually non-existent in the grand scheme of things.
Good job typecasting Tennessee dads as kiddy-fiddlers BTW. Maybe you should move out of the state, because as they say, that dog don't hunt here. To some place like, oh I don't know, San Francisco.
It wouldn't be any great loss IMHO.
I hear you Ryan, but it's an easy exception to make, especially when it's going to cost us all that federal money.
Or you could work on having the kind of relationship with your kids where you don't have to worry about whether you can bully your kids' doctors, but just go with them to their appointments and be in the room with them when they get results and ask them what the doctors said. Then it doesn't matter what the law is.
I imagine the Christian Right sees this bill as a neat way to end the family planning money. They can pretend to be for parental rights when actually they want to force teenage girls to have babies.
After all, as I heard a pastor say at one of those rallies, "If a woman gets herself pregnant, she ought to have to bear the child!" Yes, there are definitly a lot of parents in Tennessee who would throw their daughter out of the house if they thought she had had an abortion, gotten birth control pills, been raped, tested for HIV, innumerable sins of the flesh which would show up in our medical records. Believe you me, this is going to set back the whole medical care for teenagers concept back miles and miles. And what you said is probably correct, it gets rid of the government money without any problems, doesn't it?
The argument that in the overwhelming number of cases, it ain't daddy being a short eyes, reflects the deliberate obtuseness of the batshit crazy right wingers.
Regulations like this are to address the small number of really awful cases with little actual effect on the large number of cases. Of course, the wingnuts are all about stomping on the less powerful, which are also known as "minority" groups, and pretend that being a dick is all very reasonable.
