{"id":24363,"date":"2011-12-08T14:12:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T21:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/literal-paternalism.html"},"modified":"2011-12-09T23:49:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T06:49:55","slug":"literal-paternalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/literal-paternalism.html","title":{"rendered":"Literal paternalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would hope that, prior to 17, if my daughter had a concern that required emergency contraception that she would come to my wife and\/or me for assistance. If she didn&#39;t feel comfortable doing that (not beyond the realm of reason), I would hope she would do what she felt had to be done, and that she would be able to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Pres. Obama&#39;s fatherhood trumps my fatherhood (perhaps he&#39;s a father of <i>two<\/i> daughters), and <i>he<\/i> gets to decide what restrictions my daughter has on her options.  He&#39;s decided to support (if not order) his HHS Secretary to override the FDA scientific and policy analysis that it was safe and helpful for &quot;Plan B&quot; emergency contraceptives to be available over the counter. Instead, Plan B will only be available to her, until she&#39;s 17, with a prescription.  Which means she <i>has<\/i> to come to us, and <i>has<\/i> to get an appointment with a doctor first; or, alternately, go without and deal with a pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Barack &#8212; will you be available for other fatherly decisions and caretaking of my daughter?  I mean, if that&#39;s the job you&#39;re angling for, maybe you can help her get ready for school in the morning, too, or harangue her to keep her room clean. Otherwise, thanks for nothing. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fthenation%2Fads%2Fhouse%2Fsub%2FCirc_Banner5.gif' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/165065\/father-two-daughters-obama-embraces-politics-over-science-emergency-contraception'>&#39;As a Father of Two Daughters,&#39; Obama Embraces Politics Over Science on Emergency Contraception | The Nation<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe FDA\u00a0made the right decision on EC\u2014and Obama rejected it.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would hope that, prior to 17, if my daughter had a concern that required emergency contraception that she would come to my wife and\/or me for assistance. If she didn&#39;t feel comfortable doing that (not beyond the realm of reason), I would hope she would do what she felt had to be done, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/literal-paternalism.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Literal paternalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,70,23,9,8],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-science","category-parenting","category-politics-law","category-zt-pc","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13653,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/tim_oreilly_for_obama.html","url_meta":{"origin":24363,"position":0},"title":"Tim O&#8217;Reilly for Obama","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 31-Oct-08 12:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Tim O'Reilly is a well-known tech blogger, and in this lengthy article he explains why he's voting for Barack Obama. 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