February 22nd, 2012 -- by Bacchus
“Whee! To The Moon!”
Author Cat Valente writes:
Right this very second, here in the US, we are having an actual, serious, if incredibly stupid, conversation about whether or not women should have easy access to birth control. We are having this conversation because significant humans in our government believe women should not have access to it at all. I’m super excited about that, because it means it’s 1965 and we’re gonna go to the moon soon.
It’s funny because it’s true.
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Although I’m not against abortions, I think portraying pro-lifers as just being against birth control is a little disingenuous.
I think they’re referring to the quite extreme positions of the religious groups not wanting to fund birth control for staff (which includes non-religious people working at their hospitals and universities) and certain members of the GOP who are saying quite strange things about modern contraception.
Yeah, quite strange things like “contraception is not OK” and that states should have the power to ban it.
This post has nothing to do with the topic that makes ahappyguy’s knee jerk.
Don’t be distracted, this is Politics 101. One party is trying to buy votes with birth control pills paid for by someone else, it’s that simple. Nobody is trying to ban anything.
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It’s hilarious until one sees the implications.
No one in Congress has pointed out that the bishops aren’t the ruling mullahs. Yet.
I agree with Freddie, Its about who is being forced to pay not about the availability of anything. The government is trying to tell the taxpayers that you WILL pay regardless of your beliefs on the subject. I personally think contraception is worthy of support on an individual basis, but it is not right to make everyone pay for it.
So, we shouldn’t all pay for things that make the country better? Like good (sex) education and healthcare (including cheap, reliable contraceptives)? The better contraceptives we have available, the lower the unplanned pregnancy rate, the fewer high school dropouts, the more educated people there are, and the country benefits. Even unplanned pregnancies amongst adults can cause unwanted career changes or financial problems, interruption of Uni plans, etc.
It all adds up in the end, to a huge financial cost, to people, organisations and the country, when a stack of condoms, IUDs, etc. could have been purchased very cheaply
“Contraception is not OK” is emphatically not a statement about who should pay for it.
My argument does not involve the “Contraception is not OK” statement which I agree is crazy. I would however defend the right to hold and voice that opinion no matter how crazy we think it is.
Also to answer Justin, who said “So, we shouldn’t all pay for things that make the country better?” Thats exactly right. I reject your definition of “better”. Especially Healthcare. I do not believe that the country would be better with a healthcare system like europe or Canada. Its a long argument and and I suspect we would probably do well to agree to disagree.
Ask most Catholics and we will admit that we find the church’s stance on many things, including contraception, baffling. Ignoring that particular proscription provides an easy thing to get our regular does of [plant tongue firmly in cheek now]’catholic guilt’.
As to Pelouze’s comment on our healthcare system up here in the evil socialist northern wasteland (to think a US Senator once compared us to communist Russia) it’s ok to not like us (or more importantly have a differing opinion) – we’re probably indestructible as commented on by Sean Carman in his ‘Reasons to Fear Canada’ poster – best line of which is: “decriminalization of marijuana and acceptance of gay marriage without corresponding collapse of social institutions indicate Canada, may in fact, be indestructible.
And our ‘right wing conservative’ government recently amended our gay marriage laws to allow for foreign couples who came to Canada to get married to subsequently get divorced without a residency requirement . . .(methinks we have differing definitions of ‘conservative’ on the two sides of the 49th.
Hmmm… so one shouldn’t have to pay, for what one doesn’t believe in.
Okay, if I happen to be an Adamite ( http://en.wikip...mites ), I shouldn’t be forced to pay for the funding of (or obey), any law passed by the U.S. Congress, because they Congressmen wear pants during the Congressional opening prayer ( http://chaplain....html ), and Congress won’t abolish marriage, and thereby return us to the sinless state of Eden before eve bit the apple.
If I’m Islamic, I don’t have to pay taxes in America, because a portion of the money is used to buy weapons used in killing fellow Muslims, which is forbidden by the Qur’an.
If I’m a Gardnerian Wiccan ( http://en.wikip...nism) ), and Congress has no altars with a naked (“skyclad”), representation of the Goddess lying upon it, then Congress is totally illegitimate for not practicing its own rules and laws, guaranteeing freedom of religion, and offering equal time to all religious beliefs. One shouldn’t pay taxes which might support opposing beliefs.
Women should be forced to give birth to their unwanted babies (unwanted children statistically are more likely to later take another human life), so that we can properly kill them later, in the electric chair.
If society didn’t do all it can to help create serial killers, think of how many jobs the “job providers” would lose… policemen, ambulance drivers, tracking dog trainers, forensic laboratory workers, process servers, lawyers, court clerks, judges, bailiffs, court reporters, correctional officers, gun manufacturers and retailers, gun powder providers, coroners, obituary column typesetters, morticians, funeral home workers, florists, hearse drivers, headstone carvers, marble and granite quarriers, grave diggers, graveyard landscapers and groundskeepers…