{"id":52330,"date":"2022-07-21T20:24:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T20:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52330"},"modified":"2022-07-21T20:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T20:24:56","slug":"contraception-is-alive-but-struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52330","title":{"rendered":"Contraception is alive, but struggling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/contraceptives.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52331\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/contraceptives-300x201.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/contraceptives-300x201.webp 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/contraceptives-1024x686.webp 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/contraceptives-768x515.webp 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/contraceptives.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that allows Americans to take measures to avoid pregnancy when they engage in intimate activity.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds, well, rather <em>normal<\/em>, right? Not if you&#8217;re a Texas Republican member of Congress. You see, all GOP House members from Texas voted against this modern, common-sense, rational bill. That means my congressman, Van Taylor of Plano, has something against allowing his constituents to use contraceptives during sex.<\/p>\n<p>What the hell?<\/p>\n<p>Someone has to explain to me the reasons behind the partisan resistance to this measure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/07\/21\/texas-congress-contraception\/\">GOP Texans in Congress vote against bill to protect right to contraception | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears to be some additional blowback to the Supreme Court decision to overturn the law that made abortion legal. Justice Clarence Thomas &#8212; the right-wing king of the high court &#8212; let it be known that the SCOTUS might next take aim at same-sex marriage and, yes, allowing contraception.<\/p>\n<p>Good grief!<\/p>\n<p>The 50-50 U.S. Senate isn&#8217;t likely to follow the House&#8217;s lead, given that the GOP side of the divide is wedded to this idiocy that contraception is some sort of Satanic mischief.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s as clear as deep blue sky that the Texas Republican congressional delegation has swallowed the swill that now governs GOP policy these days.<\/p>\n<p>They sicken me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that allows Americans to take measures to avoid pregnancy when they engage in intimate activity. Sounds, well, rather normal, right? Not if you&#8217;re a Texas Republican member of Congress. You see, all GOP House members from Texas voted against this modern, common-sense, rational bill. That means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52330\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Contraception is alive, but struggling<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1017,5499,3998,6363,8271],"class_list":["post-52330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-contraceptives","tag-roe-v-wade","tag-scotus","tag-van-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52332,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52330\/revisions\/52332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}