Hello.
So the Bush Administration wants to redefine contraception in such a way as to make taking a pill or using an IUD a legal abortion. I can say I am not surprised. This is the man who three days into his first term tried to redefine what a human being is. And cut all overseas programs for women’s health in countries with high birth population and astronomical child mortality rates. I can only assume that since he has no uterus, women’s health issues, like good foreign policy, are beyond his grasp.
Why does the government insist on treating women like chattel when it comes to their health? This is the Admin that made it okay for a pharmacist not only to refuse contraception to women with a legal script but also allowed them to berate and humiliate them for trying to be responsible about their bodies and their health.
I will say this, no man, however high up in the Government structure should be allowed to tell a woman what she may do with her own body. I don’t see the Government cracking down on men who by condoms or Viagra. In fact while Viagra is covered by insurance many birth control devices for woman are not.
And are these not the same people who regularly trot out the welfare rolls for public derision?
As I have said before, they cannot have it both ways. Either the government should promote healthy sexual attitudes through good information and availability of contraception to everyone or the should just admit that they are a bunch of redneck asshats who think women should be fully oppressed.
I am thinking that if George had a uterus there would be contraception carnivals all over the country. Birth control pills and sponges would rain from the very skies via jet fighters. That every twenty eight days chocolate and corn chips would be free and crying jags would be the norm.
Until he grows one we’re stuck with his backwoods sexual censorship.
Zipperhead.
Dogwoman
Saturday July 19 2008 at 8:35 pm
Amen.
I love (in a laugh because otherwise you’d cry sort of way) that our current administration doesn’t want us having access to birth control, abortion even in the most dire circumstances, and allow insurance companies to charge women more (because of that whole pregnancy thing), but then they aren’t willing to offer comprehensive health care to poor women, don’t seem to think much of making daycare available for working women, are all about cutting welfare, and don’t seem to be spending much money on promoting adoption (nevermind their feelings on–gasp–gays or other unmarrieds adopting children who desperately need a home).
If this is ‘compassionate’ conservatism, I shudder to think what regular conservatism would look like.
Sunday July 20 2008 at 5:39 pm
I agree.