Wingnut: Obama Contraception Policy Just Like China

Uh, right. Making birth control available to those who choose to use it to control their own reproduction is just like forcing women to have abortions. QED.

Silly liberal, don’t you know women don’t have the capacity to choose anything? You know they’re all going to do it because all they want to do is have sex.

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Naturally. Given the option of carrying a child to term and aborting, a woman will abort 100% of the time because it’s fun and stuff. No woman has had an abortion while already having kids or has gone on to have kids in the future. I mean, having a procedure once makes it clear you don’t value childbirth. Just like having one kidney removed will make you completely blind to the value of having kidneys and will cause you to have the other removed.

Also, having contraception affordable and available will cause all pregnancies to stop(which should make abortion irrelevant but I guess it’s too much fun for silly wimmin to give up). This is why there are no children in countries where abortion and birth control aren’t considered sinful.

It’s much better to have a government that will decide for you that having children you don’t want/can’t afford/etc. are really wonderful and necessary so we don’t have to have immigrants do our menial jobs and if you don’t like it, government will have policies and procedures in place to make you like it or else.

@ Bronze

“all they want to do is have sex”

I wish I’d known that when I was single.

…Tenet. TENET. NOT “TENANT”!!!

“…a foundational tenant of our society…”

Jimmy Hoffa?

Dingo

Mandating that birth control is available is undermining the Religious Rights First Amendment right to choose to not allow others to use birth control…or something.

I was afraid I was going to have to rage about “tenant,” so thanks to all of you who did it for me first.

“[It is] undermining a foundational tenant of our society — First Amendment rights…”

What is it with these people and their insistence that their right to religious freedom is somehow being violated here?

Here’s Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan, opposing gay rights, contraception, abortion, on moral and religious grounds he thinks apply to everyone:

We can see that there is a loss here of a sense of truth and objective moral norms-rules of conduct that apply always, to everyone, everywhere-an infringement of religious liberty and an ‘eclipse of the sense of God and of man.’

Frankly, I find this incredible- the absolutist mindset that can insist that his religiously-based moral standards apply to absolutely everybody- and not see that, while he’s free to think whatever he wants, to insist that he be able to impose those values on everyone, in the name of what he believes by his religion, is not an affirmation, but a denial, of religious liberty to everyone else. These folks are thinking of other people’s rights only in relation to their own, and the group they self-identify with- it’s the five-year-old’s “It’s all about meeee!” The only “religious freedom” that counts to the Cardinal is the Cardinal’s and his co-religionists- and damn everybody else, religious freedom means the unlimited right to impose “what’s right” by my standards.