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eyelid (eyelid) wrote in scans_daily,

She said funding RU-486 for teens won't prevent STD's.

Um... hello.

Emergency Contraception (at issue in the comic) and RU-486 (not at issue in the comic) are entirely different things.

It is amazing to me how uneducated many people are about really basic reproductive health care.

In any event, she challenged the Mayor's contention that EC would prevent abortions (ostensibly by challenging the NUMBER - but then offering no numbers for her implied argument that funding EC would cause STDs). But obviously it WOULD prevent abortions. While it wouldn't prevent STDs, so what? Lots of government-funded things don't prevent STDs, yet are still worthwhile - like prenatal care. There's no evidence that it would increase STDs. Candy's various, shifting, unsupported arguments reveal that her actual opposition is purely moral based on her religious convictions about birth control being a bad thing.