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    The Gay Pill
    The Gay Pill
    The Gay Pill
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    The Gay Pill

    By William Clark

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    The President of the United States is up for reelection and a controversy erupts. A pharmaceutical company has manufactured a pill that when taken by the mother during pregnancy, can prevent the child from being gay. His advisors know that if he comes out against the Pill, he may lose support in some states critical to winning the election. If he loses, the new president would certainly reverse the government's policy on such a drug. Will the President decide to stand against the Pill and risk losing reelection, or will he stand up for what he believes?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Clark
    Release dateJan 23, 2016
    ISBN9781311444097
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      The Gay Pill - William Clark

      The Gay Pill

      By William D. Clark

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2016 ©William D. Clark

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      ONE

      Duval had an appointment with President Friedman to discuss the upcoming political campaign for his reelection. The President had asked Duval to come in and discuss the political implications of the Right to Choose pill. A bio-tech company, Genetic Pharmaceuticals, had come up with a pill that if taken in a woman's first trimester of pregnancy would reinforce the heterosexual identification of the fetus that was already in place. Their twenty-five years of research confirmed that the children of the women who took the pill were overwhelmingly heterosexual, with less than 1% declaring themselves to be homosexual. Genetic Pharmaceuticals had been running a series of television ads explaining the pill and they had been getting very strong reactions to the commercials. They had petitioned President Friedman to have the FDA approve the pill. Their research involved some 200,000 subjects and was an extensive study. It was going to be a very close race for the President's reelection, and the decision on the Right to Choose Pill could very well tip the scale in favor of one candidate.

      Duv had first met President Friedman when he was running for mayor of Los Angeles. Duv had graduated from the University of San Francisco with a degree in political science and gotten his masters at Columbia. He had started his own political consultant agency and had worked on President Friedman's first run for mayor of Los Angeles. He had admired the President for his intelligence, honesty, and desire to make things better for the citizens of Los Angeles. When President Friedman had run for governor of California, he had worked tirelessly to help him get elected. He had created some outstanding political ads that emphasized his dedication to family and his concern for the less fortunate.

      The President had been impressed with Duv's obvious intelligence and ability and had enjoyed working with him in all his political campaigns. He had come to look on Duv as almost a surrogate son. When he had decided to run for the Democratic nomination for president, there was a question of whether a Jew could be elected president, and it was still a major hurdle to get over. There was still a great deal of anti-Semitism amongst certain groups in the country. His family and friends urged him to run, saying it would open the door for any citizen, no matter what religion he or she was, to aspire to be president. The President had given a magnificent speech at the University of South Carolina and paraphrased John F. Kennedy's statement, saying that he was a citizen of the United States, who was running for president, who just happens to be a Jew. The speech won over most of the Southern delegates, and he was nominated and won a very narrow election. The President had selected a senator from South Carolina, George Christian, as his running mate. The Senator had been a strong supporter of President Friedman's proposals and had worked tirelessly with his fellow senators to get their approval. In the upcoming election, President Friedman had asked the Vice-President to concentrate on the Southern states of Texas, Louisiana, the Carolinas, the Dakotas, and Florida. He had attracted fairly large crowds and kept emphasizing President Friedman's success in handling foreign affairs and had approached the Right to Choose problem in a very homespun way, stressing the dangers of the engineering of the people by large corporate powers. He had been very well-liked in the Senate and had been compared to Lyndon Johnson in his ability to get the other senators to go along with him. He had been up for a very tough reelection fight and when President Friedman offered him the vice-presidency he was quick to accept it. The media had at first made fun of the fact that President Friedman, a Jew, had selected a Christian as his running mate. The Vice-President exploited this for jokes in all of his speeches and received laughter from the audience.

      The President had been impressed with Duv's political skills and had appointed him to his inner circle of political advisors. Now, he was up for reelection, and to win he would have to carry a number of the red states. Polls showed that he had a very narrow margin, and there was major concern that the question of the Right to Choose pill -a pill which had been created by Genetic Pharmaceuticals that would reinforce the sexual identity of the fetus if taken in the first three months of pregnancy- could swing the vote against him in those red states that had a substantial number of Evangelicals.

      President Friedman had been elected in the 2016 election following President Obama's second term. The first two years of his presidency had been fairly successful, but like President Obama he had lost the House to the Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections. The President was gearing up to run for reelection. There were still a number of major problems facing the country. Unemployment was still at a little over seven percent, and the questions of the national debt, immigration, and the funding of entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security were a major concern. President Friedman had been successful in pulling all of the troops, except for a token force, out of Afghanistan. He had also strengthened the border patrol with Mexico and reduced the number of illegals coming into the United States by over eighty percent. He had proposed a way for the eleven million illegals in the United States to earn their way to citizenship. This had been met with vehement opposition by the Republicans in the House. His plan called for the illegals to apply for citizenship after ten years of residency, then pass a citizenship test, and be able to speak, read, and write English at the high school level. In addition, the children born of illegals born in the United States automatically became citizens. The President delighted in pointing out that the Republicans in Congress had no solution of their own other than transporting the illegals back to the country of their origin, which he pointed out was absurd on the face of it. He was quick to point out that the failure of both the Republican and Democratic administrations, created the illegal problem by failing to secure the border. Polls showed that a majority of the voters were starting to lean in support of his proposal. President Friedman had also introduced a number of programs for short term stimulus and long term debt reduction, with the goal of reducing the debt by some two trillion dollars over the next ten years. One of President Friedman's most controversial proposals was for a five percent specific value added tax. All money generated by this tax would be used to fund Medicare, and be a safety net for Social Security. None of the monies would go into the General Fund and the savings from the General Fund would be used to help pay off the National Debt. There was strong opposition from the Democrats, claiming this was a tax on the poor and middle class, but President Friedman countered by saying he would also include a ten percent surtax on all income over one million dollars and a ten percent surtax on corporations’ gross incomes. President Friedman knew there was little chance of getting either of these through Congress, but he intended to use this as a bargaining chip with Congress to get them to approve his short term stimulus plan to help reduce unemployment.

      Duv had been asked by the President to do some polling in those red states to find out what the feeling was as to whether the President was going to approve the Right to Choose

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