Really?! ... With Seth and Amy
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Transcript (quickly transcribed. I do my best but it's quick [..] are parenthetical comments by myself):
This week the birth control debate came to the forefront again after Congressman Darrell [The one who wants to impeach Obama... for... yeah... that's what he keeps searching for] Issa called a hearing on President Obama's healthcare mandate [that insurance companies cover contraception, regardless of employer] but [Issa's hearing] failed to invite any women [actually democrats invited women. Issa dis-invited them, saying they weren't needed (or wanted)]. That brings us to a panel we like to call "Really!?! with Seth and Amy"
AMY: Really, congress? Really? You held a congressional hearing on reproductive rights and did not invite any women. Really. That would like not inviting any man on a congressional hearing of the Maxam Top 100.
SETH: Really. And men have to be smarter when they talk about birth control. This week when Foster Friess, the billionaire backer funding [Presidentialwhackadoodle candidate] Rick Santorum, joked that [contraception is cheap because] when he was young women simply held an aspirin between their knees for birth control -- good one -- but do you really want to start a discussion of healthcare with 'when I was young'? When you were young people died of polio. I mean, really.
AMY: Really. Later in the week Friess apologized for his comments. Well, we'd love to accept your apology, Foster, but you made a mistake and now you have to live with that mistake for the rest of your life. Really.
SETH: Really.
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SETH: Meanwhile both Gringrich and Rick Santorum use 'the rhythm method, and with five kids and eight kids respectively, it seems like they might have even less rhythm than we thought. Really.
AMY: Really. The Virgina House of Representatives passed a law this week that requires women to have a transvaginal ultrasound before having an abortion [or as it's been labeled by opponents the "the state mandated rape law" because... there is absolutely no medical reason for this procedure. This isn't a normal ultrasound (and a normal ultrasound would do) so it's not just for the shock and awe of having the woman have an ultrasound of the fetus. A normal ultrasound would accomplish that No, this is physical penetration. Mandated by law. When someone proposed that it be left up to the doctor to see as to whether they could simply do the regular ultrasound to obtain the image and stipulate a requirement for a woman's written consent first, it was voted down by the Republican majority. In Texas, doctors sued over being required to do this. Virginia is doing it anyway. And again, this is medically uneccessary. Even if they required an ultrasound, to do this vaginally is medically unecessary. When questioned about this, the comment was that if the woman had consented to sex then she had already consented to this sort of invasion. Apparently consent to sex is blanket consent for all eternity and for anything to be placed inside her...regardless of her consent of the doctors consent. And considering that it's medically unecessary, its purpose has nothing to do with its stated purpose. It's either intended for the scare factor to discourage women or the humiliation/punishment factor for these women {{ETA: and apparently the women aren't even required to LOOK at the ultrasound so that isn't the purpose for this ultrasound. I guess, they just want to sodomize women}}} because -- one more time -- there is no medical need for this!] Really. Now, don't get me wrong. I love 'transVaginal'. It's my favorite airline. I've got so many miles on transvaginal that I always get upgraded to "Lady Business."
SETH: Really?
AMY: Really.
SETH: But Virginia wasn't done. They also passed a law saying that life begins at conception [not even 'implantation' in the uteran wall. Just fertilization. This could potentially ban in vitro infertility treatments and most forms of contraception including IUDs and even hormonal contraception such as the Pill.] What's next? Life begins at 'last call'? Life begins when you click 'send' on your Match.com profile? I mean, really.
AMY: Really. Mike Huckabee joined the fight against the [health insurance] mandate saying 'We're all Catholic now.' Really? Want to know who's not 'all Catholic now'? All Catholics now. 98% of Catholic women say that they've used [non-rhythm-method] birth control and the other two are always trying to start a church softball team.
SETH: Really.
AMY: Don't tell me what to do!!
Transcript (quickly transcribed. I do my best but it's quick [..] are parenthetical comments by myself):
This week the birth control debate came to the forefront again after Congressman Darrell [The one who wants to impeach Obama... for... yeah... that's what he keeps searching for] Issa called a hearing on President Obama's healthcare mandate [that insurance companies cover contraception, regardless of employer] but [Issa's hearing] failed to invite any women [actually democrats invited women. Issa dis-invited them, saying they weren't needed (or wanted)]. That brings us to a panel we like to call "Really!?! with Seth and Amy"
AMY: Really, congress? Really? You held a congressional hearing on reproductive rights and did not invite any women. Really. That would like not inviting any man on a congressional hearing of the Maxam Top 100.
SETH: Really. And men have to be smarter when they talk about birth control. This week when Foster Friess, the billionaire backer funding [Presidential
AMY: Really. Later in the week Friess apologized for his comments. Well, we'd love to accept your apology, Foster, but you made a mistake and now you have to live with that mistake for the rest of your life. Really.
SETH: Really.
{...}
SETH: Meanwhile both Gringrich and Rick Santorum use 'the rhythm method, and with five kids and eight kids respectively, it seems like they might have even less rhythm than we thought. Really.
AMY: Really. The Virgina House of Representatives passed a law this week that requires women to have a transvaginal ultrasound before having an abortion [or as it's been labeled by opponents the "the state mandated rape law" because... there is absolutely no medical reason for this procedure. This isn't a normal ultrasound (and a normal ultrasound would do) so it's not just for the shock and awe of having the woman have an ultrasound of the fetus. A normal ultrasound would accomplish that No, this is physical penetration. Mandated by law. When someone proposed that it be left up to the doctor to see as to whether they could simply do the regular ultrasound to obtain the image and stipulate a requirement for a woman's written consent first, it was voted down by the Republican majority. In Texas, doctors sued over being required to do this. Virginia is doing it anyway. And again, this is medically uneccessary. Even if they required an ultrasound, to do this vaginally is medically unecessary. When questioned about this, the comment was that if the woman had consented to sex then she had already consented to this sort of invasion. Apparently consent to sex is blanket consent for all eternity and for anything to be placed inside her...regardless of her consent of the doctors consent. And considering that it's medically unecessary, its purpose has nothing to do with its stated purpose. It's either intended for the scare factor to discourage women or the humiliation/punishment factor for these women {{ETA: and apparently the women aren't even required to LOOK at the ultrasound so that isn't the purpose for this ultrasound. I guess, they just want to sodomize women}}} because -- one more time -- there is no medical need for this!] Really. Now, don't get me wrong. I love 'transVaginal'. It's my favorite airline. I've got so many miles on transvaginal that I always get upgraded to "Lady Business."
SETH: Really?
AMY: Really.
SETH: But Virginia wasn't done. They also passed a law saying that life begins at conception [not even 'implantation' in the uteran wall. Just fertilization. This could potentially ban in vitro infertility treatments and most forms of contraception including IUDs and even hormonal contraception such as the Pill.] What's next? Life begins at 'last call'? Life begins when you click 'send' on your Match.com profile? I mean, really.
AMY: Really. Mike Huckabee joined the fight against the [health insurance] mandate saying 'We're all Catholic now.' Really? Want to know who's not 'all Catholic now'? All Catholics now. 98% of Catholic women say that they've used [non-rhythm-method] birth control and the other two are always trying to start a church softball team.
SETH: Really.
AMY: Don't tell me what to do!!
