Anti-Choice Groups to Kick Off "Fortnight for Freedom"
Next week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its anti-choice allies will kick off their "Fortnight for Freedom."
What in the Dickens is a "Fortnight for Freedom"?
Well, a "fortnight" is an old-fashioned word for 14 days, or two weeks.
And "freedom" in this context doesn't mean women's freedom and privacy. (Sillies!) It means employers' freedom to deny birth-control coverage to their employees.
So, for the next two weeks, anti-choice groups will hold rallies attacking President Obama's no-cost birth-control policy in particular and insurance coverage of contraception for women in general.
"Fortnight for Freedom" makes me think of a time when women wore corsets, couldn't vote, and didn't get much say over their lives.
It's not exactly a forward-looking message, but it's no surprise coming from the folks who participated in the all-male birth-control panel.
Here's what the bishops hope to achieve with their rallies: pressure Congress to repeal the policy requiring insurance companies to cover contraception without a copay.
If you use birth control or know someone who does (and 99 percent of American women do), tell Congress not to give in to these extreme demands.
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Would someone tell these schmucks to pick a battle?!? Is this a religious argument or a fiscal one? You wanna piss and moan about morality. However, it is CLEAR the only issue people really have is the funding... what is going to cost more in the end?? Birth control .. or the illegitimate/unwanted children, of the obviously less than responsible demographic that is IN NEED of it???????? Brilliant minds have been at work on this one, in what imaginary utopia are people going to stop fornicating because YOU deny BC???? Great plan, well thought out!
I can imagine something happening, where hundreds of women arrive at these rallies wearing corsets. And as they approach the rally goers one by one they remove the corsets and lay them at the feet of the rally. No one of them saying a word as they pile hundreds of corsets into a mountain of wordless rebellion against those who believe that they have the right to dictate morality to the rest of the country.
If this proves one thing, it proves the bishops can sometimes be doing something acceptable (e.g. going after the Ryan budget), but they can occasionally be complete lunatics (e.g. this "Fortnight of Freedom" bullshit).
I find it ironic how people demand freedom of choice to have sex using birth control and then get an abortion while in the same breath demanding that it be funded by others who do not hold the same values. Why is it that one group feels it can force another to violate its moral conscience. If people want to use birth control and or get an abortion why can't they pay for it on their own dime. People need to stop making other people pay for their bad choices and actions and start taking responsibility for their own actions. This ultimately is what the real issue is here, but it seems that folks who demand pro-choice don't want to hear that. Instead what they hear when subsidized funding is going to be taken is that their rights are being violated allowing them to make their own decision. But really if people want to make their own decisions then they should get to pay for them to.
Actually Joan-- when we participate in all insurance we pay for things we may or may believe in. For example, I don't for one minute think people should consume any artificial colors or favors and fake sugars or corn syrup. I am pretty sure a huge portion of my health insurance dollars are going to cover diabetic treatments and hypertension drugs for people who have failed to look after their weight and health appropriately. But that is part of deal. Don't even get me started on people who choose to smoke, knowing the risks and then want me to cover their O2 supplies and or cancer treatments. Hello, it is scientific fact that smoking leads to lung cancer and other diseases. But because I understand how insurance works-- I pay my premium-- even though I really do not approve of those other people's choices and they all choices.
Maybe people who don't want to pay for birth control or arbortion as standards of ob/gyn care should, oh I don't know go find your own insurance and leave tr test of us who get how group insurance works alone.
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I haven't seen you incluude an invitation to see this sweet young girl encouraging others to feel no problem when having an abortion. But somebody edited it to show what it actually means. Take a look at
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/19/judge-dismisses-
How terrible that somebody thought to show what her wonderful words really mean.
This sweet little girl says such nice things about having to do what you have to do, but someone inserted a graphic pictorial of what she is so sweetly advocating. I have not seen you recommending it to your people. So here is that invitation.
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/19/judge-dismisses-
Wow, this article is nice, my sister is analyzing these things, so I am going to tell her.