Glenden BrownThis Defies Logic
Hat tip to Jill at feministe.
There’s so many things wrong with this!
TAMPA, Fla. - A woman who told police she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.
But that’s not the worst of it.
While she was behind bars, according to the college student’s attorney, a jail worker refused to give her a second dose of the morning-after contraceptive pill because of the worker’s religious convictions.
Since when do your religious convictions have anything to do with my medical treatment?
The 21-year-old woman was released Monday only after attorney Vic Moore reported her plight to the local media.
I’m not sure where to begin. This incident moves beyond outrage into a whole new realm of f**ked up.
Let’s start with:
What the hell is the matter with the jail nurse? I’m not sure why conservative’s believe their morals trump everyone else’s. If you are a nurse and you won’t allow persons to take FDA approved, legally prescribed drugs, you are in the wrong profession. Go into dog grooming or landscaping.Â
From Feministing:
“So, here we have a medical supervisor imposing her beliefs on a rape victim,” said attorney Virlyn Moore. “As a human being, how someone could be so violated by this monster and then the system comes along and rapes her again psychologically and emotionally - it’s outrageous and unconscionable.”
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January 30th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Sadly it doesn’t defy logic to the many who believe that women’s sole purpose on this planet is to have babies and raise and take care of children.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Bush and the Republicans were not protecting us on 9-11, and we aren’t a lot safer now. We may be more afraid due to george bush, but are we safer? Being fearful does not necessarily make one safer. Fear can cause people to hide and cower. What do you think? Is killing thousands of innocent civilians okay when you are doing a little government makeover?
What happened to us, people? When did we become such lemmings?
The more people that the government puts in jails, the safer we are told to think we are. The real terrorists are wherever they are, but they aren’t living in a country with bars on the windows. We are.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:18 am
Jenni, If you believe in evolution, what else are men and women in their respective roles for then?
If you don’t believe in a creator, then if you evolve out of a role that demands procreation and child bering and raising, then you are likely headed for extinction,…. no matter what the intellect describes to the self as your perceived reason to be alive.
A belief in a creator would give one the belief that perhaps we are created for other than the apparent purposes nature intended. Otherwise…..as history as my guide, there are piles of civilisations lying buried under sand, that we have no recollection of really, and all that really matters for us, is that the women bore children….that bore children…..that bore children….and here we are.
Keep “doin” it
March 27th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Rope: The “roles” you refer to are a societal construct. I am a human being, not a baby machine. If I choose to have children, fine. If I don’t, fine. I have my own life and my own worth outside of any pro-creating possibilities. I have a right to exist whether I choose to have children or not.
With 6 billion people and growing, we are in no danger of becoming extinct.
Why do you automatically assume that a belief in evolution means one is atheist? I’m not an atheist — more like an agnostic. Regardless if I believe in a God(dess) or not, there’s really no point in theorizing what purpose he/she/it gives our lives as it can’t be proven one way or another whether an all powerful universal being exists or not. So let’s just go with: all human beings, regardless of: race, sexual orientation, and genitalia are equal, okay?
March 27th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Rope,
Evolution is not a belief, its science. One cannot say I don’t believe in biology. Both are sciences.
But since you use it in the pedestrian sense as in vs creationism, it still doesn’t follow that such belief therefore narrows ones belief in gender roles to their reproductive capacity.
But I suppose you are just being your predictably provocative self.
March 27th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Ok Jenni.
It used to be “science” that the world was flat, let us still hold out the possibility of what we believe to be true…Isn’t.
March 27th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Jenni; I don’t find the concept of evolution and the belief in a Creator to be mutually exclusive concepts, in fact they make perfect sense.
It might simple nonsense that our “Creator” has much interest in watching our day to day, anymore when I was 7 observing my 2nd grade classes’ ant farm.
Evolotion would be a perfect “tender” of things until the Creators return in time to weed this garden.