I’m no fan of Santorum, but I agree that this complaint is overwrought:
Item 3 is certainly a minority viewpoint – one professed by the Catholic Church but adhered to, in all likelihood, by a small minority even of Catholics. But it is a moral judgment, rooted in a traditional and long-held understanding of human nature that sex and marriage are inextricably linked to each other and to family — meaning children. It is not a policy prescription. The only policy prescriptions above from Santorum add up to contraception should be neither banned nor subsidized.
Which is actually a — dare I say it? — libertarian position. Don’t tell Rick.
The faulty premise is that “insurance” should cover routine contraception in the first place. Does your auto insurance cover oil changes, too?
Yeah but unfortunately, insurance does cover routine checkups and routine shots so the precedent is there. It must be removed but it’s easier to shove contraception in under that precedent than to remove the precedent.
When I go to my doctor for a checkup, I pay a $20 copay. When I get a prescription filled, I have to pay a copay. Why should birth control be completely “free”? Nothing is free. This is a cynical ploy on Obama’s part to buy the votes of women by giving them something for “free”. Nothing is free. Someone has to pay for those free contraceptives. Why should this one category of medicine be different from all others?
Looks like the new precedent is free sh*t for those who voted for Obama. I’m not exactly clear on why yesteryear’s precedent is any more valid that today’s. It’s not like the eliminationists are interested in negotiating.
Which is just backwards. It’s been at least three generations since the sexual revolution. We no longer link sex to marriage or children. We have sex for pleasure and love. We don’t find female orgasm shameful. We don’t ostracize children for being born out of wedlock. These are outdated traditions of a bygone era.
“It’s been at least three generations since the s3xual revolution.”
Most people associate the s3xual revolution with the 60s and not the Roaring 20s (although there are parallels.
“We no longer link s3x to marriage or children. We have s3x for pleasure and love. We don’t find female orgasm shameful.”
I thought past generations associated it with all four.
Wait, you’re poking fun at the modern s3xual revolutionaries, aren’t you? I mean, history is saturated with horndogs who associate s3x with pleasure sans love. You have to be an amoeba to not notice that.
(OK, how did you get past the spam filter?)
the blessings have not been unmixed
One rather large problem with the reasoning in the linked article; it ignores how birth control pills work. Most act in multiple ways, including preventing ovulation, and also preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall. They mention “morning-after pills” but guess what? Most oral contraceptive pills (especially the progesterone-based ones) work in a similar way in some of their modes of operation, because they prevent pregnancy with a multi-faceted approach that goes beyond preventing ovulation (they aren’t 100% effective at preventing ovulation, not even close).
Birth control pills also act by;
lowering the efficiency with which the Fallopian tubes propel fertilized eggs from the ovaries toward the uterus. This can cause the embryo not to reach the uterus in time to implant successfully.
And via;
affecting the corpus luteum (a gland that controls the woman’s cycle and normally functions long enough to give an embryo time to implant and for the placenta to begin to support a pregnancy), causing it to allow the lining of the uterus to be shed before the embryo can successfully implant.
Guess what? Those three methods are considered abortion by most pro-lifers, because they believe that human life begins at conception, and those aspects of “the pill” prevent a fertilized egg from implanting, thus killing it. (and with pills, you do sometimes get fertilized eggs.)
That’s a fertilized egg, and Santorum is repeatedly on record as saying that life begins at conception.
He’s said he does not favor banning contraceptives (something that acts only to prevent conception, such as a condom). Anyone want to hazard a wild guess how Santorum stands on birth control methods that, in a significant percentage of cases, kill conceived eggs rather than preventing conception? So yes, he is, per his statements and declarations, against the pill and would try to make it illegal.
And let’s not forget some other popular forms of birth control;
IUD’s, Depo-prevaria, and Norplant, which would also be banned for the same reasons if Santorum had his way.
So, is the charge that Santorum is coming for your birth control pills valid? I think the answer is clearly “yes”, based on his own words and policies.
This is not about birth control. It is about individual freedom vs. tyranny. If Congress and the Supreme Court can’t or won’t stop this our constitution is Dead, Dead, Dead.
Saw a snippet of Hannity with Dick Morris tonight, who pointed out the strange questions during a past debate by George Stephanopoulos about banning birth control. Morris claimed this was setting the stage for Obama’s policy announcement and framing the objections to it as wanting to ban birth control. Who knows whether it was planned or just serendipity.
It is not like Obama would collude with the media right?
Maybe Dick Morris reads LI, who had the same thought earlier in the day.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/02/remember-when-no-one-understood-why-abc-asked-about-contraception-at-the-nh-republican-debate/
I don’t think Santorum has a chance, which is a pity. But there is an upside to all the lib morons taking morning after pills and aborting their children like most of us discard banana peels.
The Roe Effect
Of course the obvious problem with this scenario is, that our country must still exist, for the Roe Effect, to take effect.
I honestly wish Alan West was running. For a number of reasons. The first being a race for POTUS between a Democrat AA Male running against a Republican AA Male. It would shoot holes in 99% of the Left’s America is a racist country blather. And I’d LOVE to see that bone headed teleprompter puppet go up against someone as smart, well read and articulate as West!
But West is a man of his word and he told his district he would NOT run this time. And he doesn’t vote “Present” either.
West may have been good as “Batman,” but neither that nor his tenure as Mayor of Quahog qualify him to be President…
That’s ADAM West you bonehead
ADAM West? Oh. That’s different. That’s very different.
Never mind.
Indeed. The “Dig ‘Em” fiasco alone will hang over his head for years.
And I’d LOVE to see that bone headed teleprompter puppet go up against someone as smart, well read and articulate as West!
That should be on pay-per-view.
Why is it that so many nerds are so gung-ho about defending the Sexual Revolution, when they are its biggest victims? In 1950, they would have been able to get married. Now, they are fighting for Bill Maher’s right to get laid.
White Knighting — they believe chanting the Feminist litany might get them some, and it might…maybe once, but as a general rule, no. When society holds women to those evil Victorian modesties, they embrace reality and hunt for a man in their league instead of playing the field in hopes for some Alpha sperm + single-motherhood + bastard child + career/WIC.