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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 13, 2017 14:04:41 GMT -5
Donald Trump has appointed another foe of evidence-based health information to the Department of Health and Human Services. Valerie Huber, a longtime leader of abstinence-only education advocacy groups, will be the chief of staff to the assistant secretary of health, who manages the Office of Adolescent Health among other HHS offices. For the past decade Huber has served as the president and CEO of Ascend, formerly known as the National Abstinence Education Association. Before that, she led Ohio’s abstinence education programs, a job from which she was suspended after being found guilty of ethics violations for trying to give a state contract to a company she had ties to. Research from Case Western Reserve University found that the programs Huber ran in the state contained “false and misleading information” about abortion, contraceptives, and sexually transmitted infections, in addition to perpetuating “destructive, inaccurate gender stereotypes” and presenting “religious convictions as scientific fact.” One curriculum said that teenagers who have sex before marriage should “be prepared to die.” www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/06/07/president_who_bragged_about_extramarital_sex_appoints_top_abstinence_advocate.htmlROTFLMAO!! Yeah...that'll work. Just how far back in time is this administration going to go? |
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Post by apple 2 on Jun 13, 2017 14:19:11 GMT -5
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jun 13, 2017 14:23:10 GMT -5
She sounds like a good fit for his administration. Does she have to be confirmed? Will all the GOP vote for her? If she isn't confirmed Trump will blame it on the dems.  |
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 13, 2017 14:25:42 GMT -5
It worked SO well for the Abstinence-Only Poster Family.
Sarah Palin was pregnant when she "eloped".
Her daughter got pregnant twice while promoting abstinence-only.
Her oldest son only got married because his girlfriend was already pregnant.
Yeah, let's teach abstinence-only, which has been proven not to work.
Idiots.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 13, 2017 14:31:27 GMT -5
"If you have sex out of wedlock, prepare to die!"
Are you freaking kidding me?
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 13, 2017 14:33:06 GMT -5
She sounds like a good fit for his administration. Does she have to be confirmed? Will all the GOP vote for her? If she isn't confirmed Trump will blame it on the dems. The adulterer who was tomcatting all over the US during the Vietnam war, is promoting abstinence?  |
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Post by billisonboard on Jun 13, 2017 14:40:41 GMT -5
She sounds like a good fit for his administration. Does she have to be confirmed? Will all the GOP vote for her? If she isn't confirmed Trump will blame it on the dems. The adulterer who was tomcatting all over the US during the Vietnam war, is promoting abstinence? I find this even more funny: Tiffany is the only child of Donald and actress Marla Maples, Trump's second wife. Tiffany was born shortly before their wedding in 1993, ... www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a61643/donald-trump-kids-family/ |
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Post by bean29 on Jun 13, 2017 15:45:35 GMT -5
My thought was that this pick was so not in line with what we know about Donald Trump that one might think Mike Pence was making the decisions about cabinet picks.
Why does Donald Trump go along with this kind of crap? |
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 13, 2017 15:49:48 GMT -5
My thought was that this pick was so not in line with what we know about Donald Trump that one might think Mike Pence was making the decisions about cabinet picks.
Why does Donald Trump go along with this kind of crap? My guess is that this was the deal in exchange for Republicans backing him. They keep their mouths closed and endorse him, he puts as many social conservatives as possible in key government positions. |
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Post by justme on Jun 13, 2017 18:11:55 GMT -5
The adulterer who was tomcatting all over the US during the Vietnam war, is promoting abstinence? I find this even more funny: Tiffany is the only child of Donald and actress Marla Maples, Trump's second wife. Tiffany was born shortly before their wedding in 1993, ... www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a61643/donald-trump-kids-family/ Well he was married when he got the lady pregnant...just not to the child's mother. At least I think that's how the timing worked out. |
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Post by Rob Base 2.0 on Jun 13, 2017 18:21:33 GMT -5
More importantly, will this pick publicly praise and stroke Trump's ego during staff meetings in front of the press?
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 13, 2017 18:21:59 GMT -5
Oh good - abstinence only. I suspect as it has through recent history, both teen pregnancy rates and abortion rates will increase.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2017 18:31:47 GMT -5
More importantly, will this pick publicly praise and stroke Trump's ego during staff meetings in front of the press? Stroking egos is allowed. Just nothing else... |
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Post by Rob Base 2.0 on Jun 13, 2017 18:33:33 GMT -5
Not just allowed, it's required  |
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 13, 2017 18:42:39 GMT -5
I'm quite sure he isn't the first adulterer to grace the White House.
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 13, 2017 18:43:05 GMT -5
Not just allowed, it's required We see it here as well. |
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jun 13, 2017 18:44:21 GMT -5
It seems like a bad pick. I have to say I've never heard of this office. I guess that's what we mean when we say HHS has 300+ programs.
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Post by swamp on Jun 13, 2017 18:51:13 GMT -5
More importantly, will this pick publicly praise and stroke Trump's ego during staff meetings in front of the press? Stroking egos is allowed. Just nothing else... Oral isn't sex |
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Post by swamp on Jun 13, 2017 18:52:59 GMT -5
I'm quite sure he isn't the first adulterer to grace the White House. Not the first and not the last. Just that the evangelicals kind of ignore his background of cheating. |
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 13, 2017 18:58:45 GMT -5
I'm quite sure he isn't the first adulterer to grace the White House. Not the first and not the last. Just that the evangelicals kind of ignore his background of cheating. I suppose. In hopes that he'll come through. Hope in vain. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2017 19:00:36 GMT -5
Stroking egos is allowed. Just nothing else... Oral isn't sex Tell that to Clinton... |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2017 22:09:01 GMT -5
Welcome to the next "Baby Boom"!
"Abstinence Only" sex ed DOES NOT WORK. Kids are going to screw whether they are taught how to do so as safely as possible or not.
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Post by giramomma on Jun 14, 2017 7:13:07 GMT -5
I'm not sure why we're surprised by this, though.
I don't agree with it. Don't get me wrong. But it's not like conservatives are all going to be like
"People have sex outside of marriage? Of course they do! Lets make sure we give our kids the proper resources to keep them out of poverty! Taking a proactive approach now means less fighting about social services...so we don't have to make the choice between supporting babies OR gradmas. They will be enough money for grandma, because we're working hard to prevent unintended pregnancies."
OR as DH put it "When did common sense become so uncommon?"
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 7:19:04 GMT -5
Colorado tests giving free long term birth control to teenage girls (actually anyone 25 and under who hadn't graduated high school). The population's pregnancy rate drops 40%. Their ABORTION rate drops 42%. And at the end of the study conservatives vote not to fund it because they 'don't want to give teens a pass to have sex'.... Its never actually about abortion. It's about controlling the free will of others. It's about making everyone else live by their ideas.
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Post by kadee79 on Jun 14, 2017 7:31:33 GMT -5
Why aren't my "likes" showing up?
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jun 14, 2017 8:10:03 GMT -5
The philosophical underpinning that should worry you is that she is yet another person in this administration who has very likely been appointed to oversee the dismantling of the department of HHS...  At the heart of almost every Trump appointee- Betsy DeVos, Dr. Ben Carson, Scott Pruitt, Andy Puzder- what they all have in common, more than anything else, is a fundamental philosophical opposition to the very existence of the departments they've been asked to run. My thought is that it's likely Trump appointed them to dismantle their respective departments, not run them. Let us hope so! |
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 14, 2017 8:47:40 GMT -5
I think Clinton told us that |
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Post by swamp on Jun 14, 2017 8:47:46 GMT -5
Good, because I hate clean air, pure food and drugs, and scientific research.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 14, 2017 8:49:22 GMT -5
Why aren't my "likes" showing up? Because the "angry bear" has reared his ugly head today. I can't open a lot of new topics, participated links, etc. So I am just bouncing around to see what will and what won't open. |
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Post by weltschmerz on Jun 14, 2017 13:20:05 GMT -5
More importantly, will this pick publicly praise and stroke Trump's ego during staff meetings in front of the press? I do believe it's a prerequisite. |
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