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

[vehemencet-t.livejournal.com]

I just don't understand why the employer would have any knowledge or involvement in the woman's use of contraceptives, and hence any say in the matter. Does she have to go through it to get them? How would they even know?

[paft.livejournal.com]

The rationale is apparently that since the employer is providing the health insurance, the employer should be privy to that knowledge.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

dangerous precedent. But then, the GOP believes that it's ok for an insurance company to drop you if you're sick, so why not extend that to employers? It can only be good for the people who REALLY matter -- the executives.

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you actually need to use the medical insurance? Well... you're fired."