The Right Wing's Idea of "Freedom"

[paft.livejournal.com]

From Statepress:

Arizona House Bill 2625, authored by Majority Whip Debbie Lesko, R-Glendale, would permit employers to ask their employees for proof of medical prescription if they seek contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes, such as hormone control or acne treatment.


‘I believe we live in America. We don’t live in the Soviet Union,’ Lesko said. ‘So, government should not be telling the organizations or mom and pop employers to do something against their moral beliefs.’

Jezebel points out that Arizona is an “at will” state. This means that bosses in Arizona will be able to fire women for being depraved enough to take birth control pills to prevent pregnancy.

As we all know, what made the Soviet Union infamous were not the gulags, its treatment of dissidents, and the rigid control over the press, but the fact that women could take pills for the purpose of contraception without fear of losing their jobs over it.

Yes, here it is -- the right wing's idea of "freedom" is a society where a woman has to ask her boss' permission to use oral contraceptives.

Does anyone else find this more than a little weird?

Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes

Comments

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

This is definitely edging past the limits of the "free exercise" argument (as flawed as that is) and going directly to punishing people for taking birth control for contraception.

I'll be honest, I had no idea that there were this many people who had any opinion at all about contraception. Who elects these people>

[paft.livejournal.com]

anm: This is definitely edging past the limits of the "free exercise" argument (as flawed as that is) and going directly to punishing people for taking birth control for contraception.

It reveals exactly what is truly driving all that "free exercise" bullsh*t from the right.

But then, anyone actually familiar with the right already knew this.

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

In my experience they support "free exercise" right up until someone wants to build a mosque in New York

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

The nature of reactionary politics is such that positions get more extreme, which is why fundamentalism has never been a traditional value. When you're in a contest to "not be liberal", things get weird.

[paft.livejournal.com]

mo: ...things get weird.

Not to mention dangerous.