Pregnant politics

Your Texas legislature adjourned for the weekend without taking up the two controversial abortion bills on the calendar, the make-her-look-at-an-ultrasound bill and the collect-a-lot-of-private-information-about-her bill, both being wet dreams for opponents of abortion rights. According to observers at the lege, the bills are only on the calendar because embattled Speaker Craddick is trying to shore up his political base. So, they’ll probably be back.

Meanwhile the NY Times has an editorial out (sub. req.) accusing politicians of playing, gasp!, politics with abortion and ignoring the core issues, like education:

…our biggest problem is not using contraception properly: 92 percent of abortions occur in women who said they used birth control. Six in 10 used contraception the month they got pregnant. The others reported that they had used birth control previously but, for one reason or another, not that month. (Many, for example, say they didn’t expect to have sex.) The trouble appears to be blindness to how easy it is to get pregnant and what it takes to make birth control really work.

Good stuff, okay. In typical fashion, though, the editorial treats abortion as mainly a problem for girls and applies only a butterfly kiss to the responsibility of boys. Guys! Learn to put on, and take off, a friggin’ rubber. Or keep your peeny out of those fertile lands.