talkpolitics | 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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Probably the same way you got your claim.

You did say he's not human. Just like how Jeff didn't say FDR=Stalin.

Where did I say he wasn't human? When did I ever say that not-human = mandate to kill?

I noticed this one claim:

meaning the forcible collectivization of US farms, a massive military build-up and a system of centralized economic planning with mandated state quotas, and NKVD-led enforcement of said quotas.

Now, what I said was that they're "more similar than you're willing to admit." Where does this leave the rest?

Forced collectivization of US farms? The Agricultural Adjustment Acts fill that void fine for me.

And this is what the Soviet collectivization was:
http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Sorrow-Soviet-Collectivization-Terror-Famine/dp/0195051807

I will never, ever agree that the Agricultural Adjustment Act being claimed to be the same as this is 100% accurate. That you do leads me to think that I'm frankly entirely lost as to how it's remotely possible to claim this.

I repeat, did the USA engage in wholesale deliberate inducement of artificial famines in the 1930s?

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