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Videos, newspapers, and pills in school!

Marc and I have started a new video series for RH Reality Check, and I’m hoping all you bloggers out there who write about these issues can bookmark it and use it as a tool. The idea is to take on some controversial areas in reproductive rights and health—-especially places where the right has mucked up the conversation—-and providing some facts and standard rebuttals to right wing nonsense. There’s 12 scheduled between now and December. I picked this one to be an early script because of the “pregnancy pact” myth in Gloucester, Massachusetts, which only got in the news because it was a battle over providing contraception to high school students. Little did I know that another famous pregnant teenager was going to be big in the news. This is the year of the pregnant teen for sure.

As you can imagine, I think it’s better for teenage girls to get pill prescriptions if they want them than condemn them to unintended pregnancy.

RH Reality Check: Contraception Access For Youth from RH Reality Check on Vimeo.

To get the embed code for that, just click the video and then click the “Embed” button on the right hand side. Or, if you prefer YouTube, we have the same videos there. i just prefer Vimeo’s quality. And yes, if you click it, I’m in it. We just did the screenshot of our actress playing the wingnut for variety. Also, she’s purty.

Later this week, I’ll be highlighting the “when life begins” argument, the confusion over what emergency contraception actually does, and abstinence-only vs. comprehensive sex education. Please, link away, embed, have a ball with it. Send it to your relatives and friends who are confused. These videos are absolutely meant to be a primer in reproductive rights debates, a clearinghouse to be referred to whenever it comes up and you need a shorthand to talk to people about these things.

While I’m plugging myself, check out Tuesday’s Dust-Up at the LA Times.

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Posted by Amanda Marcotte on 03:15 PM • (8) Comments

Wow. I don’t know how you muster the strength to try and engage with such patently disingenuous creeps, but kudos.

Comment #1: Well, what? on 09/10 at 03:54 PM

er…and by disingenuous creeps I mean Mangu-Ward.

Comment #2: Well, what? on 09/10 at 03:54 PM

I like how your “wingnut’s” arguments get progressively more reasonable-sounding as the piece goes on. It’s a good way to refute all the “But surely…” arguments that would arise if only the most wingnutty points were examined, and to illustrate that the pro-choice position is based on a logical progression of thought and empathy, and not a mindless kneejerk ideology the way the wingnut position is.

Comment #3: Karalora on 09/10 at 05:10 PM

That’s the idea. I also wrote the conservatives with the idea being that these are real people who heard and believed right wing talking points, but could be brought to reason with persuasion. Trying to avoid strawmen.

Comment #4: Amanda Marcotte on 09/10 at 06:24 PM

What really struck me about the Dustup is that even the “counterpoint” feminist couldn’t make a feminist argument for supporting Palin. Mangu-Ward basically says that she’s willing to put aside her feminist principles if she thinks she can get a tax break out of it. Which is her prerogative, of course, but it’s not much of a “pro-Palin feminist” stance.

Comment #5: Shaenon on 09/10 at 06:49 PM

I’d do the blonde. However, I wouldn’t touch Marcotte with *YOUR* dick!

Comment #6: Barack Obama on 09/11 at 12:54 AM

Mission Control, we have troll lift-off, we have lift-off from the Cheetos-littered basement of the latest troll to come by here…............

Comment #7: The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein on 09/11 at 01:42 AM

“While I’m plugging myself….”

Perhaps you meant “while I’m plugging my numerous public education and advocacy projects.”

Or not. YMMV.

Comment #8: Bruce on 09/11 at 04:17 AM

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