I commented on this in another thread. I also stated I wish the children involved in this the best, and that includes inevitably the Boebert family. I congratulate her becoming a grandmother.
If one is not reactionary and self-aware, they will see it's the hypocrisy and strait up bullshit of the
public figure that is being called out with the very public statements she has made to others and the messages she wants sent.
Boebert at CPAC called to cut funding to schools that provide comprehensive sex education because there are schools “that are teaching worse than just gender ideology.”
United States Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) called for totally abolishing sex education during an interview at this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland."But we have to get aggressive and say, you know, there is going to be money spent in...
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“They have comprehensive sex ed. They’re teaching kids how to have and enjoy sex, and even same-sex sex, how to pleasure themselves,” she said. “This is not something elementary students should learn, nor any student in a public school…These are the things that we need to go after and cut their funding.”
Then there's this where she has in the past espoused:
The Colorado Republican is among other conservatives scrutinized for using a trope that's motivated multiple racist mass shooting.
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Boebert has long since stopped simply complaining about sex-ed in schools. She has lamented that white people should be having more babies for fear of being “replaced” by non-whites. So, a teen pregnancy might have been encouraged by her, who knows. Maybe the Boeberts view this teen pregnancy as a “gift from God” or maybe it was a drunken accident within a family that seems famous for such behaviors.
Now .... Pointing at the chickens coming home to roost for Boebert is like pointing at the chickens coming home to roost for anyone whose cultural programming is leading to (un)expected results. Which is an important thing to point out when the person is a legislator who wants to impose her own family’s prescription on the rest of us by her public statements on what she wants done to others. Because the Republican prescription for parenting, for them and for us, is abstinence-only sex education and no access to birth control for teens.
Abstinence-only education didn’t work in the Boebert family. Stigmatizing premarital sex didn’t work in the Boebert family. Restricting access to sexual education didn’t work in the Boebert family. We assume she did these things, because that’s what she preaches, but of course it’s also likely that she did no parenting at all. So before she tries to legislate her “approach” to the rest of us, she needs to address the fact that it failed - or was not practiced - in her own family. Or alternately, admit that reducing teen pregnancy isn’t the point of any of this. We don’t know exactly what her personal parenting strategy was for preventing teen pregnancy, but we do know that it did not prevent a teen pregnancy in her own family, which means she’s going to be called out when she dictates such strategies to anyone else.