Did you know that women in the US armed forces are currently denied access to legal reproductive options?
About 350,000 women currently serve in the military, making up about 15 percent of all active-duty personnel. But federal law does little to protect their reproductive rights. Not only are servicewomen banned from accessing abortion care at all military medical facilities, many can't even obtain emergency contraception at their base pharmacy and thus have no effective access to Plan B contraceptives.
Timely access to emergency contraception is important for military women, especially since nearly 3,000 incidents of sexual assault were reported in the military last year-- an approximate 24 percent increase from 2005. Congress has an opportunity to improve health care for women in the military with a bill sponsored by lawmakers in both parties supporting the addition of Plan B to the list of medications that must be stocked at every military health-care facility.
3000 sexual assaults? A 24% increase? They're supposed to lie back and think of America? WTF????
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And the Victorianization of America continues, except without the good art and literature.
Workcamps are already being created by Halliburton.. we just need to created the heavily polluted London fog and bring back consumption....
I just!! heard something about this on Air America on my way home from work, but right in the middle of it my radio went bonkers, so I didn't get to hear the whole thing. (So thanks for posting it.) Amazing, frightening and very disgusting.
Bizarre circular reasoning... women who sign up for the military are lesbians or they like men too much; so they get raped because they weren't asking for it or they were; and the men are not responsible = long way from home = are just responding to her come-ons = were angered by her refusals...because women who sign up for the military are lesbians or they just want to be near a lot of men......
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