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

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

I admit there was nothing mandating they be banned, there is, however, the Church's direct advocacy *against* something that measurably is shown to save lives on the Every Sperm Is Sacred mentality. Meaning the Church doesn't give a flying fuck if people die so long as its view of human life is preserved, a self-contradiction if ever there was one.

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

The church advocates a method that has virtually no way of spreading HIV.

People dont wear condoms, church's fault . Yet when people don't follow abstainance it's the chuch's fault.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Priests raping young boys and being moved from church to church with the papacy covering it up behind closed doors and advocating abstinence in public?

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

That's not how HIV got to epidemic status in Africa.

Stay focused. Handle the claims you make and don't shift things.

[fornikate.livejournal.com]

"That's not how HIV got to epidemic status in Africa. "

How do you know?

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

It's a reasonable assumption that Catholic priests didn't rape AIDS into everyone.