Howard Dean: 'Very Conservative Women Want Their Kids, Their Daughters Taking Birth Control'
As NewsBusters has been reporting, the perilously liberal media have been focusing a great deal of attention on contraception in order to assist President Obama's narrative that Republicans want to take away everyone's birth control.
Doing his part on MSNBC's Morning Joe Thursday was CNBC contributor Howard Dean who actually said with a straight face, "Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
HOWARD DEAN, CNBC CONTRIBUTOR: We did a focus group in 2008 when Obama was running, and we did it in western Pennsylvania with pro-Life women. And Obama had, I mean McCain had said something like we shouldn’t pay for, he was against paying for contraception but he was for paying for Viagra. So we, that comes out in this pro-Life focus group, and these pro-Life women go, “This guy is totally out of touch” because they all had teenage daughters, and whatever they thought about abortion and all that, they did not want their teenage daughters getting pregnant.
And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.
Really? I would think most very conservative women want their teenage daughters to be celibate and likely believe giving them birth control is telling them it's okay to have sex.
A 2007 Associated Press/Ipsos poll provided some insight:
People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.
Sixty-seven percent support giving contraceptives to students, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. About as many — 62% — said they believe providing birth control reduces the number of teenage pregnancies.
Let's look at some of the details (emphasis added):
Minorities, older and lower-earning people were likeliest to prefer requiring parental consent, while those favoring no restriction tended to be younger and from cities or suburbs. People who wanted schools to provide no birth control at all were likelier to be white and higher-income earners. [...]
Underlining the schisms over the issue, those saying sex education and birth control were better for reducing teen pregnancies outnumber people preferring morality and abstinence by a slim 51% to 46%.
Younger people were likelier to consider sex education and birth control the better way to limit teenage pregnancies, as were 64% of minorities and 47% of whites. Nearly seven in 10 white evangelicals opted for abstinence, along with about half of Catholics and Protestants.
In addition, 49% say providing teens with birth control would not encourage sexual intercourse and a virtually identical 46% said it would.
So, 46 percent of those surveyed preferred morality and abstinence with the same percentage saying giving kids birth control encourages sex.
Think very conservative women would have been in that group?
Yeah, I do too.
But that's not the narrative the White House wants, and CNBC's Dean did his part Thursday to further the misinformation.
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Howard the Dean
Submitted by WestTexan on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 12:10pm.
Is this crazy son of an unwed mother still around? How did this donkey ever get through medical school? Shame on Vermont.
I think the Mad Hatter was a
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 12:14pm.
I think the Mad Hatter was a spoiled rich kid who went through medical school for some kind of credibility.................has he ever 'practiced' anywhere?? And would you, or your wife or daughter, want to go to this meth-addled clown??? When is the last time he ever said anything that made sense??
I know me and my wife are
Submitted by okie-pastor on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 12:16pm.
I know me and my wife are conservative and we believe birth control encourages sex.
I love the parady rush has on his show when a kid from the 1950s goes into the principals office and Principal says:
"whats in your wallet? is that a condom? let me have that!"
then fast forward to today: Principal calls a kid in to his office and says "what is in your wallet? nothing? well here put this condom in your wallet"
lets face it my friends, we are living right side up in an upside down America!
Another case of deciding what someone else wants
Submitted by pockets64 on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 12:16pm.
This seems to be the liberal bent of late. They decide what others want and then get mad when we don't want it.
I know that this very conservative American would prefer to keep his daughter away from having the need to take the pill and away from the side-effects and risks of taking the pill.
religious attack working
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 12:20pm.
Obama's joke of a budget
Preposal to cut nukes by 80%
$800 million for Arab Spring
Deal on taxes being passed
Iran declaring open season on Ambassadors
But the Conservatives are nicely distracted with birth control - Finally Ann Coulter is back in an agreeable window on this one. While I don't believe it is right for the government to mandate to the church the way they are trying to do - I am more worried about how insurance will now be used to force any social engineering project the government want without judicial or Congressional oversight.
Hay, Howie...
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 12:50pm.
"I mean McCain had said something like we shouldn’t pay for, he was against paying for contraception but he was for paying for Viagra."
Hay, Howie, I think you should stick to your Primal Scream Therapy and leave the thinking to others. McCain, and others, are not against contraceptives per say, they're just against having others, ether through their taxes or their insurance premiums, being forced to pay for contraceptives for other people. Why, you may ask? Because contraceptives are NOT a medical necessity. If women choose to be on the "pill," fine, then they can pay for it themselves. WHY must insurance cover it?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
And Now, For the Liberal Crap Sandwich of the Day
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 12:59pm.
I give you the disgraced former Democrat Party presidential candidate Howard Dean, a pathetic little man who knows no shame.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
I am Against Abortion, But in Howard Dean's Case...
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 1:02pm.
It's at least worthy of debate.
A mental case who was succeeded by a bigger mental case in Little Deb the Washerwoman.
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
You Lie...
Submitted by vrwc13 on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 1:07pm.
...and out from under a rock he comes spewing what he does not know.
Next he will tell us 2 + 2 reallly does = 5
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
scary....
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 1:10pm.
to think this ignorant liberal son of a bitch once ran for president....scary
Hey, at least he didn't
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 1:15pm.
Hey, at least he didn't win...................look what we've got now!!! 'Scary' is a little too weak for this one...........
Thanks, Howie!
Submitted by Morganfrost on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 1:22pm.
Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.
And, in conclusion, let me just say yyeeeeeeaaaaaaargh!
Dean
Submitted by mmilesll on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 1:26pm.
And what does this have to do with "FREEDOM OF RELIGION" nothing. This crowd is numbingly stupid. No hope for any change either.
They only care about
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 1:48pm.
They only care about constitutionality if it helps push their agenda, at the same time they only care about public opinion if it also helps push their agenda. That is why they are pushing this nonsense about public opinion but when it comes to gay marriage the public's opinion isn't even worth mentioning.
'Very Conservative Women Want
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 1:59pm.
'Very Conservative Women Want Their Kids, Their Daughters Taking Birth Control', ah, are you kiding me! Very conservative women will not want their daughters taking birth control. They don't want their daughters involved sexually at all so that their is no need for birth control.
Howard Dean: Spokesmen for "Very Conservative Women"
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 2:17pm.
I think it's great that he's still getting in front of cameras making a fool of himself and his ideology.
Remember what Dean said the next time you hear critics say the men can't possibly know what women want.
Exactly!
Submitted by panzerakc on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 7:37pm.
I want to tell him, Howard, if you wake up tomorrow morning and find you've been transformed into a very conservative woman overnight, I'll be glad to hear you out on the subject.
Not one second before.
Amen
Submitted by bobsmom on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 8:57pm.
I'm thinkin' you white, middle aged, liberal butt wad, what the hey do you know about how conservative women think? Name me 3 conservative women you've conversed with on the topic of birth control, and that does NOT include any of your patients. Jerk.
WTH
Submitted by John21 on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 3:18pm.
Someone as limited as this man should have a keeper
1. This mentally challenged individual does not even live in this dimension.
2. What would someone as far out in left field as him know about the wants of
conservative women? No conservative (or any) women would talk to this loon.
3. Only an addled mind could spend so much time being wrong about everything
4. Why does he think that he has anything pertinent to say?
5. The facts and figures of the rebuttal tell more about this wackjob than anything he said
6. Do they only let him out of the padded room to make this administration look sane?
One more question, I know the physical resemblance is fairly small, but the mental limitations are pretty close, is “Crazy Debbie” Wasserman-Schultz and him related?
There is a huge difference
Submitted by JdfinCT on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 3:54pm.
There is a huge difference between being ok with your children using contreceptives, and being ok with forcing others to violate their conscience by making them help pay for her to get them.
Screamer
Submitted by HudsonRiverGirl on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 4:41pm.
Ah yes, I can't wait for my daughters to be infected with STDs.
...good point
Submitted by vrwc13 on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 5:03pm.
- "I can't wait for my daughters to be infected with STDs"
...plus
- can't wait for my daughters to lose their purity before marriage
- can't wait for my daughters to learn to be promiscuous
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
There's a jump in there...
Submitted by GW on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 5:04pm.
"they all had teenage daughters, and whatever they thought about abortion and all that, they did not want their teenage daughters getting pregnant."
HERE'S THE JUMP!
"And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control."
He jumps from not wanting their daughters pregnant to wanting them to take birth control. I'd like to ask him to compare the rates of teen (unwed) pregnancy before and after the wide availability of birth control.
...and after the 'jump' there may be a 'bump'
Submitted by vrwc13 on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 5:10pm.
...and of course even with 'protected' sex there is still the risk of pregnancy and the more often the more the possiblity.
Then of course the 'choice' has to be made for one of the 'top five' reasons:
25.9% Want to postpone childbearing
21.3% Cannot afford a baby
14.1% Has relationship problem or partner does not want pregnancy
12.2% Too young; parent(s) or other(s) object to pregnancy
10.8% Having a child will disrupt education or job
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne