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The Right Wing's Idea of "Freedom"
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
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Apparently he believes The New Deal never happened because legislation that was struck down in 1933 and then put back up in subsequent years in nearly the exact same form with some wording changes and upheld by the exact same SCOTUS "doesn't count".
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You did say he's not human. Just like how Jeff didn't say FDR=Stalin.
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Go ahead and tell me how The New Deal was dismantled in 1938/1939. You never told me about that.
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And I'm still waiting on your explanation vis a vis the whole 1938/1939 thing. You're the one that offered it as an excuse.
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And I'm still waiting on your explanation vis a vis the whole 1938/1939 thing. You're the one that offered it as an excuse.
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To which you responded in the following fashion:
Pretty much. The only parts that aren't 100% accurate are the secret police and the slave-labor camps. I'm not sure the internment camps actually involved slave labor.
No, the reality of your own words supports me.
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