Ahhhh, the outrage over at the headquarters of the moral police, otherwise known as Fox News, was apparent on Friday. Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum and guest Brad Blakeman expressed outrage over President Obama’s approval of the FDA’s decision to make Plan B available over the counter to girls as young as 15. The segment, however, got interesting when the ass backwardness of their statements was pointed out by one of their very own, Julie Rodinsky.

Here’s the video:

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When Blakeman said that providing teenagers access to the morning-after pill means that Obama is somehow condoning or encouraging criminal behavior, statutory rape, my mouth dropped open. I know, I know, at this point I should not be shocked by the stupid that is Fox News but every once in a while I find myself at a loss for words. The president is not encouraging anything; he is being realistic, and the reality is that kids are going to have sex. We may not want them to have sex, but they are doing it. Turning a blind eye to the problem does not make it any less of a problem. The CDC found that in 2011 329,797 babies were born to teenagers; that is 31.3 percent per thousand girls between the ages of 13-19. That is an ASTRONOMICAL number! Wouldn’t you think common sense dictates that these kids need something readily available to them just in case they find themselves in an unwanted predicament? Of course not and Julie Rodinsky hit the nail right on the head as to why.

You’re living in a world that just doesn’t exist. The bottom line is, just because you don’t want kids who are 15, 16 years old to have sex, you’re going to punish them by not providing them with the means to not get pregnant. … It’s not encouraging it, these kids are going out and doing it; the president’s not encouraging it… All the president is doing and all the FDA is doing is assuring these kids is if they go out and do this – and nobody’s advocating that they do – but if they go out and do this that they don’t get pregnant… you might not like it, government is not condoning it, but if you don’t give them the tools to prevent abortion and pregnancy, they’ll have abortion and pregnancy.

EXACTLY! You see Republicans frequently express outrage over abortion. Getting rid of abortion is right there at the top of their list of things to so. They constantly talk about how Dems want to kill babies and abortion is horrifying, etcetera,etcetera, etcetera. The right proves over and over again that they don’t really care about ending abortions; they care about punishing women for sex. Punishing them for not keeping their legs closed. Republicans are the champions of misogyny. If Republicans actually cared about preventing abortions they wouldn’t be condemning the decision to make this pill easier to access. If they really, really cared about ending abortion they would not fight tooth and nail against sex education and against contraception. Sex education and contraception PREVENT pregnancies, therefore they prevent abortions; it’s not that hard to figure out. Oh no, over there birth control somehow equals higher rates of teen sex and pregnancies. Clearly, abortion prevention is not what they care about; Blakeman made it entirely too obvious

The president is somehow saying if you engage in that activity, criminal behavior, which is okay because the government is going to provide you the out for your bad decision-making.

There you have it, the real reason he doesn’t agree with Plan B. He doesn’t think it is right that these girls are going to be able to go and buy a pill that will prevent them from becoming pregnant. He WANTS them to be pregnant so that it is a reminder of the bad decision they made. It doesn’t matter that the baby will most likely be born into poverty or that the mother will be thrown onto welfare. Nope, the only thing that matters is punishing that girl for having the audacity to engage in sex. I somehow feel that if men could become pregnant this would be a whole different ball game. Furthermore, he says that this decision ‘strips away the moral fiber’ of our country? No, Blakeman, ruining the lives of these kids for making a mistake does that. I personally applaud the decision of the FDA to make the pill more readily available. I don’t want kids getting stuck with babies because they made a mistake. I also applaud Fox News’ Julie Rodinsky for shining a spotlight on the absurdity that this is somehow a bad thing. Glad to see there is at least some common sense over there.