The most horrific part of the debate last night

[heidi]

And it was a pretty big challenge to choose the most horrific part - but frankly, while there are problems in having teachers who've had no certification process and no training in teaching, especially on an elementary school classroom-teacher level* and there are catastrophic issues with McCain's health care proposals and his complaints about John Lewis just feel weird, none of that demonstrably minimizes the health of girls and women across the country. What's next? Air quotes for "incest" or "rape"?

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* I think there is merit in having middle- and high-school teachers, and in specialty classes, where someone who doesn't have a specific certification but does have a specialty in that area, but given that I've just been through a situation where someone with a teaching degree but no early childhood education was my son's kindergarten teacher (until the principal removed her because she wasn't a good K-level teacher) and was rapidly screwing up his learning experience, I'm not very into it for the K-5 level.

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[heidi8.livejournal.com]

He was speaking specifically of the health of a woman who's seeking an abortion to preserve her health, not women's health in general. He seems to think that the exception mandated in Planned Parenthood v Casey back in 1992 that abortions should be allowed in the second and third trimester "for pregnancies endangering a woman's life or health" "stretches" things so women would lie to claim there's a health issue even if there isn't. Which is pretty libelous to both women, and doctors.

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

I do know that, but someone who would put airquotes around women's health in one circumstance probably holds that opinion in other areas as well.