Birth Control Debate: New Hampshire Lawmaker Urges Married Couples To Practice Abstinence

I keep shaking my head at the idiotic statements that people keep saying.

Abstinence for MARRIED couples? Are you joking?

Like nica states below, I will be with my husband when I want. Period. No questions about it. Not going to practice abstinence at all.

Both of my kids were conceived when I was on the pill, yet I made the choice to have them, because I wanted them. My choice. After our son was born, he had a vasectomy etc... because we joked that the neighbors would have sex and I would get pregnant! LOL

I can still in theory conceive, but if I did, my marriage would be in a lot of trouble!

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Let's start promoting mandatory vasectomies - we'll see how fast the dialogue switches course!

LOVE that idea Shelby!!!

I do think it takes a real man to get one. I have heard more of my hubby's friends say that to each other after they all got them!

I have already raised my children. I love them very much but I don't want any more. While I'm no longer married I have every intention of having lots of sex. I will have it with whomever I want, however I want, and whenever I want to and Rep. Blankenbeker can go @!$%# herself.

Well Stevie, she WAS talking about married couples...

*sheepish grin!*

Have a lot of fun ok?

Be sure to post photos, Stevie....

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Blankenbeker's comments have gained attention before, including a statement she made last year claiming that Osama bin Laden was not dead and a suggestion that she use her military training to shoot at unions.

This woman is a nut, and I doubt she get's a curtain call.

Many Granite Staters are amazed. Believe me.

Abstinence is something that would work for married couples who don't want more children, just as it would for singles who don't want disease, or pregnancy. But for all except about one or two percent of the young people, this is like asking them to hold a flood from the banks of the Mississippi. Accordingly, I think birth control should be covered by any and all health care plans.

Doesn't this lawmaker realize that married couples ALREADY practice abstinance? LOL.

Abstinence is something that would work for married couples who don't want more children,

Birth control pills or condoms are some things that would work for married couples who don't want more children as well. Why does the GOP feel it necessary to legislate what goes on in the bedroom of MARRIED HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES? What's left? Dictating what positions?

...I have every intention of having lots of sex.

As you know, intention and execution are two different things.

doug, yes - it is back to missionary position because it is the position that is least likely to produce an orgasm for a woman & we wouldn't want women to enjoy it OR realize that sex can be good.... Just yesterday a poster said contraception should be outlawed so girls will be afraid of sex - tell me this is a dream & that people are not really trying to move us backwards in time.

Demolition Man is starting like its based on real life and not an act of fiction. The writer could see the future.

Marriage is already a failure 60% of time, couples not having sex would just increase it more.

What's left? Dictating what positions?

They've already got laws for that on the books. In most states the only acceptable (read: legal) position is missionary. In most states oral sex, either giving or receiving is illegal.

In Nevada it is illegal to have sex without a condom. In Washington (state) it is illegal to have sex with a virgin, even if married. Interesting how there's any procreation going on at all in those states!

Oh, and when was it exactly I got a prostate? These people are nucking futs, imo. Abstinence for married couples, who the hell does she think she's trying to kid here? Just because she's a dried up old biddy doesn't mean the rest of us ladies are. Most of us happen to really enjoy doing the 'wild thing' with our husbands.

All I have to say about this is....ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

In Nevada it is illegal to have sex without a condom.

Well, in all truthfulness, that law was put on the books mainly for the sex industry here in Nevada. I just think they should have worded it a bit better. Still, if you want a lady of the night here in Nevada, the condom is provided.

The comments came at the same hearing where state Rep. Jeanine Notter (R-Merrimack) claimed that birth control pills lead to prostate cancer.

Yeah, prostate cancer in women on the Pill is a raging epidemic.

Are you quite sure you didn't misspell the esteemed state Representative's last name? Perhaps substitute a "u" for the "o"?

This woman is a nut, and I doubt she get's a curtain call.

Many Granite Staters are amazed. Believe me.

Sorry - not likely. She'll get re-elected. This:

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/new-hampshire-libertarian-movement

is describing this:

http://freestateproject.org/

Enjoy your anarchy, New Hampshire.

Next thing you know, these idiotic conservative lawmakers will be proposing mandatory vasectomies and tubal ligations for gay and lesbian couples—"just to be on the safe side."

Goodbye republican party!

Another example of how over the top the rethuglicons have gone. It's not any legislator's business to make suggestions about anyone's legal conduct. But as long as she's made that one, I have a few suggestions for this idiot lawmaker....

Doesn't this lawmaker realize that married couples ALREADY practice abstinance? LOL.

No offense to anyone, but barring serious health problems/disease/recovery from recent childbirth/etc, chastity isn't exactly a benchmark of a functional marriage.

Next thing you know, these idiotic conservative lawmakers will be proposing mandatory vasectomies and tubal ligations for gay and lesbian couples—"just to be on the safe side."

Well, you can't have gay and lesbian couples having gay and lesbian babies now can we? /s.

I suggest the voters practice abstinence when voting. Don't vote for her or any other GOP/TP nut bag !! Sounds like she hates sex. Probably never had a good man in bed with her who took the time to make sure she enjoyed the mutual pleasures of a loving act.

If I want to have sex with my wife, and she wants to have sex with me we will, as often and in any way we choose as long as we respect each other and do no harm to each other !!!

Seems to me we should abstain from f#&@ing republicans....!

Why does the GOP feel it necessary to legislate what goes on in the bedroom of MARRIED HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES?

Why does anyone feel it necessary to legislate what goes on in the bedroom of anyone else?

Why does anyone feel it necessary to legislate what goes on in the bedroom of anyone else?

I guess I was trying to say that, up until now, they were only worried about what "teh gayz" did. And since they are losing that battle, now they have just gone off the deep end.

I wonder how many kids she has?

Is hubby getting any lately?

Birth Control Debate: New Hampshire Lawmaker Urges Married Couples To Practice Abstinence.

The direct parallel to that is, I urge the New Hampshire law maker to shut up. This is not a valid area of public debate among lawmakers.

How about focusing on jobs and the economy? A lawmaker wasting time with this sex stuff needs to get fired for wasting public time, money and resources.

Why does the GOP feel it necessary to legislate what goes on in the bedroom of MARRIED HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES?

With this they weren't really trying to legislate what goes on there, just to use religion as ab excuse to justify limits on health care. The purpose, of course, is to make more money for health care investors. Over the years this goal has meant things like lifetime benefit limits and dropping coverage for couples' "born fetuses" at young ages.

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Vasectomy, YES, now we are talking; it cannot be repeated enough. it's the only way forward with condom to prevent spread of disease HIV et al.

A vasectomy is a very reliable method of preventing pregnancy (close to 100% effective except for the failed procedures) but it does nothing to prevent the spread of any STDs. Semen is still ejaculated after a vasectomy and it is like any other bodily fluid that can carry a viral or bacterial infection.

The condom or total abstinance is the only chance one has to protect themselves from STDs. However even these two techniques cannot guarantee 100% protection since many STDs can be passed by simply coming into contact with any bodily fluid of an infected person. In order to remain totally safe one would have to live in a sterile bubble for their entire lives and that just isn't practical. It would also be really lonely and sexually frustrating. LOL

People in the other 49 states only have to throw out the Tea-nutters. In New Hampshire we also have the 'Free Staters'. These are pure anarchists and extremely nuttier. This is just another Free Stater who was elected by a lazy uninformed electorate.

Another 'fine' piece of legislation from these fruit-cakes is to end speeding tickets, if you do not harm anyone with your speeding, NO TICKET.

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• New Hampshire has always been a wacky political state. Our former Governor Meldrim Thompson was on the Board of Directors of the John Birch Society. Does that tell ya something.

In 2010, besides the TeaNutter society who took over, we were also attacked by the Free Staters. These NUTBAGS are anarchists, who came here to take over with their stupidity. The lunatic ideas they have are against ALL government regulations. Read the following, and check out their website, unbelievable.

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The Free State Project (FSP) is a political movement, founded in 2001, to recruit at least 20,000 libertarian-leaning people to move to a single low-population state (New Hampshire, selected in 2003) in order to make the state a stronghold for libertarian ideas. The project seeks to overcome the historical ineffectiveness of limited-government activism by the small, diffuse population of activists across the 50 United States and around the world.

Those who participate in the Free State Project do so by signing a statement of intent declaring their impulsion to move to New Hampshire within five years of the drive reaching 20,000 participants, or other self-selected triggers. As of June 2011, more than 1000 FSP participants have become "early movers" to NH, in that they have made their move prior to the 20,000-participant trigger. Over 11,200 people have signed this statement of intent. In 2010, at least 12 "Free Staters" (project early movers) were elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

The Free State Project is a social movement generally based upon decentralized decision making. While there is a control group that performs various activities, most of the Free State Project's activities depend upon volunteers to promote the Free State Project in their own way, and no formal plan dictates to participants or movers what their actions should be once arriving in New Hampshire.

Ideology and political positions

The Free State Project itself does not take official political positions, support candidates in elections, or support or oppose legislation. The goal of the Free State Project is to move people to New Hampshire and not to directly affect any political process.

Several early movers have been elected to the New Hampshire legislature. In 2006 one of its participants, Joel Winters, was elected to the state legislature, running as a Democrat. He was re-elected in 2008 but defeated in 2010. In 2008, 4 Free Staters were elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, including Winters, according to group participants. In 2010, at least 12 Free Staters were elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives. In 2012, elected members wrote and passed House Bill 418 which requires state agencies to consider open source software and data formats when making aquisitions.

OK, technically speaking couples practice abstinence in between making love. Does that qualify? Tell Lynne couples are practicing abstinence, then she can take her meds and relax. You could even say they spend more time abstaining that having sex.

Sounds like Lynne isn't getting any sex and is jealous. No volunteers? Maybe the need to come up with an inflatable John Boehner.

So ehhhh...@!$%# the economy, just not your wife?

Another gop flop.

Cowboygrandpa...

"Abstinence when voting"

LOL!!!! Wiping off the coffee from my laptop!!!

Another 'fine' piece of legislation from these fruit-cakes is to end speeding tickets, if you do not harm anyone with your speeding, NO TICKET.

That one's not so bad, in my opinion.

(Not like traffic on I-95 in NH doesn't move along at 75-85 mph anyway...)

Well, L'E, we agree on this one!

Obama isn't perfect, but he's doing the job a heluva lot better than any of the buffoons across the aisle. It's almost like coming into the kitchen with a bubbling pot of unknown slop on the stove, and being told that the Country Club is expecting haddock/perch bouillabaisse for lunch.



Birth Control Debate: New Hampshire Lawmaker Urges Married Couples To Practice Abstinence

Sort of makes you wish her parents had practiced it more, doesn't it?