They're All Anti-Death Penalty Too, Right?

Political Heavyweights Join Americans United for Life for its 40th Anniversary Gala 
by Americans United for Life, Monday, August 15th, 2011

Honorary Co-Chairs Texas Governor Rick Perry, U. S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions lead a stellar list of Honorary Hosts for an historic event.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (08-15-11) – National leaders and political luminaries will join together in November [Nov. 2, 2011] to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Americans United for Life - the nation's premier pro-life legal team and the country's first national pro-life organization - incorporated in 1971 before the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. The high profile event is already marked by an impressive list of pro-life leaders serving as honorary hosts of the much-anticipated evening. 

"Honorary Hosts" include our own Gal, Ann Marie Buerkle, as always doubling down on freedom. 

Right Wing/Fundamentalist Birth Control

This just in from the great state of Texas:

"Abstinence is the only acceptable birth control": this is the only sex education information teenagers receive in Texan schools. This training is wrapped around a religious message of morality and fear and also teaches that birth control doesn't work.


The teen pregnancy rate in Texas is 50% higher than the national average. Texas also leads the nation in second pregnancies among teens.


It turns out that Texas kids thought that "if birth control doesn't work, why use it?"


Governor Rick Perry swears that abstinence works. 


Blueskygirl supposes he is technically correct.