The Right Wing's Idea of "Freedom"

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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

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

I'll post a quote I read on the SA forums.

"I believe that in a society with things such as free universal health care and guaranteed retirement income, humans will be much more free to make 'rational' decisions. Finances and health, in my opinion, are two of the greatest emotional factors at play in human decision making. It seems natural in my mind that philosophies which rely on rational action would desire to eliminate the sources of emotional stress in human action. " - archangelwar

Shaming women for being responsible seems like it would impede their decision-making and make them far less likely to make rational decisions.