Fox pretended to be "fair and balanced" (as always) by hosting a debate over the Obama administration's announcement that health insurers will be required to cover birth control without charging copays. This will also include other women's health services. This has sent the right into a frenzy because it would help make birth control more accessible to women. Fox cannot let the opportunity pass to stir their ignorant viewers into hysterics.
In favor of the announcement, Jehmu Greene, who is the former president of Women's Media Center gave FACTS. They include:
“50 percent of pregnancies in this countryare unintended pregnancies” –the leading reason why women seek abortions — which costs the U.S. over $11 billion a year. Noting that contraception not only allows women to space out their pregnancies and commit to parenting, but also reduces the number of abortions, Greene determined the new policy to be a “text-book definition of win-win.”
However, Family PAC Federal Vice President Sandy Rios called it ridiculous and dismissed Greene's FACTS by saying that she lives in "la la land."
– “Is the White House out of their mind? Does the West Wing not know what the left wing is doing? We’re $14 trillion in debt and now we’re going to cover birth control, breast pumps, counseling for abuse? Are we going to do pedicures and manicures as well?”
– “Why in the world would you encourage your daughters, and your granddaughters, and whoever else comes behind you to have unrestricted, unlimited sex anytime, anywhere and that, somehow if you prevent pregnancy, that somehow you’ve helped them. I would submit to you that uncontrolled sexual behavior is what is harming our girls, not our lack of birth control — which by the way they don’t seem interested in taking anyway. Having a baby is not the worst thing. I think having multiple sex partners without any kind of restraint or responsibility is much more damning, why would you support that?"
I don't see this on the recent list (yet) so my apologies if already diaried. But I find Rios offensive and out of line, which I guess goes hand-in-hand with the ultimate goal of Fox "News" Here's the vid if anyone can stomach listening to it: