Remember: the Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen. And we are seeing this played now in the MSM as it is too explosive of a hack job by Obama to go unnoticed. This is not a topic that is going to go away any time soon – given the nature of Obama and HHS Secretary Sebelius on the Catholic church’s theology that contraception and abortion is sinful, it speaks to the very heart of American Rights – the Right to believe what one wishes without Government interference. Now, I am not Catholic (in fact, being an evangelical Christian, I have some major problems with some of their theology) but I defend their right to believe what they do and will defend them. Yet, this roughshod attack is what happens with an overgrown Government too Big for our britches when Government has to force compliance.
Progressives are ALL about Government staying out of their “private lives”. For years, all we heard was that Republicans want to tell you what to do in your bedroom. Fair enough, but is their use of Government to force me to pay for “the fun in their private lives” an infringement of my private life? And worse, how is their use of Government to force me to reject a core religious belief ? And THAT seems to be the logic that always escapes these nitwits – while they are all about setting things up so that some “identity / victim / special interest group” has the “freedom” to act as they wish without bearing the cost of that freedom, they never will acknowledge that in doing so, they “freely” (sorry, bad joke) have no problem in taking away freedom from the many to service the few. And they never, ever will admit that’s the shell game they play in buying off one group against another.
Well, over at Blue Hampshire, Granite Gnome decided to tried to come up with a defense of this indefensible cliff.
First is the “oh, but people NEED contraception – and only Planned Parenthood is there for them” fallacy:
But here is what they don’t seem to get (or do get, but just don’t care): for millions of Americans, when Planned Parenthood comes to mind, they don’t associate it with abortion at all.
Maybe in the circles you travel, but not in mine. Not in the circles that treat the unborn as made in God’s image and not just as unformed lump of tissue.
An illustration:
-When a good friend of mine became sexually active in high school and didn’t want her deeply religious parents to find out, she went to Planned Parenthood to obtain contraception.
Right – Planned Parenthood helped this minor to contravene the responsibility of the parents in raising their child. Now, you might say that there was a parental failure ahead of this event, but one could also posit that rebellion was in play – the selfish “I want to do what I want to do when I want to do it”. Now THAT’S an adult reaction (er, which is the problem – it isn’t).
This next line is just so riff with unintended irony, I feel like I’m an iron worker:
The anti-choice movement talks a good game about loving “the women, too”, but the fact is that they do nothing to care for women prior to them becoming potential pawns in their culture war.
One, who is making them “pawns”? Are we, on the pro-life side, mandating that they automatically participate in this culture war? Nay, they are making their own decisions. They have decided to participate in sex on their own – no help from us was needed (or, probably desired). And like all things that require decisions, there are consequences. And I am rather fully puzzled by how we do not “love the women, too”?
I recall at the hearing to defund Planned Parenthood here in New Hampshire Warren Groen (R-Rochester) saying that if the state didn’t fund Planned Parenthood, other organizations would pop up to take its’ place. Where are they, Warren? Planned Parenthood doesn’t have a monopoly on state grants. Where is the nonprofit “pro-life” women’s health clinic providing the same services as Planned Parenthood minus abortion? Why haven’t you started this clinic, to prove it can be done?
Two things here:
- One was that Senator Shaheen decided that NH State Government was incapable of governing and used the force of her office to override the decisions of the duly elected Executive Council.
Hey Gnome! You might have liked the outcome as it supported your goal, but how happy would you have been if a Republican Senator had overridden a Democrat controlled Exec. Council to stop the Fed funds? In my mind, either is very poor governance. You?
In any case, Shaheen used her heavy hand so quickly, there was not time for another clinic to fill that void – making your argument specious at best.
- I notice that Planned Parenthood raised $3 million in three days – kinda kills off your argument of lack of support here (although, in your cognitive dissonance mindset, you actually answered your own dilemma: “…Millions of women and men passionately support Planned Parenthood…”).
So, Gnome, why does Government have to support it with taxpayer money – there seems to be PLENTY of private money all too willing to support these baby killers!
I realize that people like Representative Groen and his ilk don’t “need” Planned Parenthood, because they have insurance and wait til they’re married and don’t cheat on their spouses and don’t use birth control.
Yup, here we see the Progressive Gnome attack what most of us would call “responsible behavior“: get married, get a job, don’t cheat. Whether or not they use birth control is none of my business, nor yours. Because having a family generally means being responsible, having a job generally means having a responsible budget (“hey honey, I think we need to go the pharmacy!”). And not cheating gets rid of the STD problem too. Yeah, living responsibly and acting like a responsible adult puts a rather boring spin on the “desperate need” that Gnome seems to wish to portray.
Note to the clueless one: perhaps all your folks are solely dependent on their emotions and act like rutting animals that have no self control and have no ability to stop and say “er, is this a good idea?”. Does not the philosophy of “delayed gratification” ring a bell? Believe it or not, many do still have a sense of what is right behavior and what is wrong behavior, and act accordingly. Not everyone gives “into the moment”, as apparently you and your fellow travelers do – and wish for others to bail them out or demand that things be done for them “just because”.
And this where the blind spot comes in. The majority of Americans, including many who are against abortion, don’t think like Representative Groen and the radical anti-abortion right.
That’S OK, as we’re not too fond of you pro-baby killers either. Actually, Gnome, while you’ve been burying your head in your mattress, the majority of the country has been turning pro-life, especially the younger generations. So more people are on our side than yours.
They need and want the services Planned Parenthood provides. They have sex whether they have a permission slip from a church or not. Most will have sex with more than one person over the course of their lives. They want to control when and how many children they have. And they know when it comes learning about sexual health and protecting yourself, there is only one organization with the ubiquity and resources to care for everyone who walks through their doors, regardless of who they are and their ability to pay: Planned Parenthood.
Gnome seems to be PP-blind; there are other medical clinics that can handle a lot of what PP does – but do not do the level of abortions as a normal part of their business that PP does.
As far as having sex with whom (and/or however many whoms there are), that’s their choice. I happen to believe that sex should be within a committed marriage, but then again, I’m from that “responsible generation” as well (coming up on 31 years with the same lady, “in sickness and in health”, and have never had a thought of having to agonize over having a “your cheatin’ heart” moment). Does that make me a goody-two shoes? To a more randy, lack of control control “Playa” – yes. But then again, having control over my life is a bonus that they will never experience. And having never cheated, neither have I cheapened myself or my marriage either. Given that, I can’t imagine what it would be bed hopping all the time – kinda ups the percentage of “oops – wrong name” quotient (or amongst the hook-up set, even if you ever heard the other person’s name might be assuming WAY too much).
But Gnome, for all the words I’ve now wasted on this – I still ask: who are you to say that your sexual behavior should override Constitutionally protected expression of my religion? Or even the President of the United States. This is not a “things that we do together” item, as Barney Fwank might put it. This is individual actions, thoughts, and beliefs.
What this is, however, and will be until there is either a political uprising or Obama backs down, is the forcing of Government decrees that all must pay for sexual behavior (and consequences) over religious freedom. I know that you want this argument to be on the more superficial level, but it is not. It cannot be – as it speaks to one of this nation’s foundational beliefs – that we are free to worship (or not) how we do and that Government cannot tell us that it can override those beliefs. Especially when it comes to causing the death of an unborn child.
I may not share the Catholic Church’s theology on contraception (although I do know some Evangelicals that do) but I do share in the fact that life, in the image of God and that He gives us all life, starts at conception and that abortion is an act of murder. To demand that I would have to, if I owned a company and offered health insurance, cover such an act is nothing less than tyranny.
Tyranny – we had a Revolution back in 1776 from a King’s act of perceived tyranny – what about this one?
