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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Missing

Through Salon.

It's more than critical health information. The Bush administration has decided that as well as they can control it, you should not have any information that might drive you to consider the wisdom of feminism. Here's a report detailing what information has been taken off of government websites that might be useful to you, might have some bearing on how you vote. I thought we were against Communists in part because they practiced thought control.

Things That the Bush Administration Doesn't Want You to Know
or, Don't worry, pretty lady, we'll take care of this.

*Condoms will help protect you from disease if you have sex.
*Abortion will not give you breast cancer.
*Abstinence-only programs don't work and in fact can be dangerous.
*You have rights in the workplaces that the government has enshrined in law.
*Women are still making 76 to a man's dollar, and that's been true for a long, long time.
*Emergency contraception is safe for over-the-counter use and the only reason you can't have it is political.
*They generally don't want you to know a damn thing about STD's, as is evidenced by the constant harassment of people doing genuine, non-political research of those diseases.
*If you are in an abusive relationship, there is help for you.
*Women are being discriminated against and outright abused in the military.
*Victims of domestic violence are being systematically discriminated against by insurance companies.
*It is illegal to discriminate against gay government employees. (On top of trying to spread ignorance, they are trying to make it like it was never true that discrimination was illegal. Wishing makes it so, eh?)

And that's just the first term. If they win a second term and don't have to worry about scaring off voters, imagine what could come of it.