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

[paft.livejournal.com]

I've known more than one woman who relied on condoms and ended up pregnant. Never met a woman who had a similar experience with oral contraceptives.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

If we're relying on anecdotes, my wife was born while her mother was on the pill, and used a condom, and something else (I know she claims 3 types of birth control were used).

I've used condoms for 20 years and never had a pregnancy.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,366741,00.html
1-2 percent get pregnant on the pill with perfect usage.

http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/explanation-condom-failure-rates
2-3 percent get pregnant with condoms with perfect usage.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

That isn't the case.

[paft.livejournal.com]

But you see, I'm not relying on anecdotes. Statistics indicate that oral contraceptives are far more reliable than condoms.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't consider 1-2 percent failure to be "far more reliable" than 2-3 percent failure.

[paft.livejournal.com]

I'd say a 9 to 10 percent failure rate is significantly lower than a 15 to 20 percent failure rate.

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

Yea, but I consider 20 to be lower than 5,000.

Maybe you should deal with the numbers that are real and not the numbers you decide sound good,.

[paft.livejournal.com]

What is it you consider "unreal" about the stats I've cited?

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

You mean the statistics you claim.

The person who cited failure rates was gunslinger.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Sure, but those aren't the real numbers.