Yep, that’s what it is, Scott. This time, it is Allison Gilbert whining out of both sides of her mouth in the Concord Monitor about the NH Executive Council’s vote on Planned Parenthood contract denial (reformatted, emphasis mine):
My Turn: Executive councilors have questions to answer
I am outraged and disgusted by the New Hampshire Executive Council’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire. I want to thank Colin Van Ostern and Chris Pappas for voting in support of all New Hampshire women and families. We all know that Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire provides critical sexual and reproductive health care and educational services to low-income women and men.
Ah yes, like Obamacare doesn’t exist to supply ALL of our needs – including “critical sexual and reproductive health care”. Thus, you should be able to go ANYwhere you want (er, that IS why the Incremental Socialists known as Democrats passed it) right Allison? That’s what we were told over and over, right? Oh wait!
You mean it hasn’t turned out that way? Might that be because GOVERNMENT MAKES ALL THE RULES now, Allison? But I digress – back to the cognitive dissonance (yes, the whole thing after at the bottom):
There is no such thing as a surplus of these services and everyone, low-income or not, is deserving of them. Taking action in service of one’s future is only venerable. That is what “Live free or die” means, after all.
I don’t she knows what that really means – or once again, this I-Love-Government-Because-It-Is-Supposed-To-Give-Me-My-Heart’s-Desire-and-Take-Care-Of-Me shows, well, her worldview of what the Proper Role of Government should be. Yes, she is right that taking personal action, taking individual action, is not just venerable, but it is also mandatory. YOU must decide, for yourself, what that future should be. YOU – not me. Nor, anyone else.
But the “deserving” part of that? This is one of those Lefty pronouncements that soars high at first syllable but falls to earth hard when carefully examined. Lady, no one DESERVES anything – except that which you have personally earned. Nothing. But when you try to put that everyone deserves stuff along with Live Free or Die, I have to admit I can’t see the attachment point you have linguistically put there – they just don’t fit together.
What doesn’t fit? That Government must provide stuff before you can Live Free. Live Free or Die – YOU get to live your life free – and NOT live your life FOR Free. The first is a Right – but it demands nothing from anyone else to be able to do so. The second means, and this is most important:
Someone else CAN’T live free because they have become your indentured servant, required to have stuff taken from them in order for you to have Free Stuff.
I guess you are just DANDY that you believe that your selfishness (that others MUST provide for either you or those you favor under the pain of jail) is perfectly acceptable. I find that rather abhorrent, actually. Not just that we see one more distortion of the common language but so free to impose yourself onto others. That you are ENTITLED to be supported.
And before you start to protest, here’s the clincher:
I wrote to the three council members who defunded Planned Parenthood. I asked them whether their decision means they will endorse legislation to have the full scope of women’s health care services covered by Obamacare.
Silly lady – Obamacare has already been legislated (or, at least until “The Secretary shall” keeps “shalling” or it gets repealed) – the NH Executive Council plays no role in legislating. They either approve a contract or they don’t. Please do not conflate the two. In this case, I’m embarrassed for you for not knowing the difference. But to my point of “demanding others take care of me”:
I asked them if they plan to increase taxes in order to help support women forced to carry unwanted or nonviable pregnancies to term. Most importantly, I asked them who, or what, is being protected by depriving women and families of affordable and accessible health care services?
Allison – where in the NH Constitution does it say that the Executive Council gets to set taxes? They act as a governor on the Governor with respect to contracts and appointments to the judiciary and executive branch departments and offices. But it is clear – you have no feelings, with the demand that others must constrain their standard of living so that your’s would increase, about taxpayers. To you, they are a piggy bank from which to eternally make withdrawals.
So, you prove your selfishness. And silliness that someone is being deprived of something. Sorry, you have that backwards as well. Just because I don’t want to give you a present doesn’t mean I have deprived you of ANYTHING. You just don’t have something that you, frankly, didn’t have before. Status quo – no net difference. You didn’t have something that wasn’t yours then and you still have don’t have something that wasn’t yours now.
So no one is depriving you of anything. Let’s use the common language correctly, shall we?
I am still waiting for Chris Sununu, Joe Kenney and David Wheeler to reply. I ask them to use facts in their answers and to provide them via the Concord Monitor.
And I await your reply here on GraniteGrok – if you are capable of standing up to a debate.
(Allison Gilbert lives in Concord.)
And I live in Central NH. Her complete letter:
I am outraged and disgusted by the New Hampshire Executive Council’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire. I want to thank Colin Van Ostern and Chris Pappas for voting in support of all New Hampshire women and families.
We all know that Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire provides critical sexual and reproductive health care and educational services to low-income women and men.
We also all know that of the services provided by Planned Parenthood, only 3 percent are abortions, which are not funded by subsidies. Remember, abortion is a safe and legal health service – and yet I find myself having to repeat this stat over and over again. I hate repeating this fact so often because it feels too apologetic.
Well now, if it is ONLY the abortion part that grieves you, what about this – get PPNE to spin off that lowly 3% into its own, completely independent, organization. Then if it is ONLY a measly 3%, create your own charity to fund it – and LEAVE THE REST OF US OUT OF IT.
THAT is Live Free or Die – that you should not impose yourself onto me for an act that kills babies and makes me complicit in murder.
We also all know that Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire does not participate in fetal tissue donations. Again, I hate how apologetic this sounds, too. Tissue donation plays an incredible part in medical research to cure illnesses and save lives. It is done only with the consent of the provider and is not an option presented until the abortion has already been performed. It is all performed within the limits of the law.
We also all know that controlling one’s reproduction is central to controlling one’s future. Reproductive health care services equip both young women and men with resources to decide when, how and with whom they reproduce. It saves lives. It allows us to grow and develop into who we want to be so that regardless of whether or not we choose to bring life into the world, we are prepared and empowered do so with intention.
Sorry, but if you have voluntarily made the decision to engage in an action that can result in a new and individual life growing in the womb, you must accept the consequence of that act. *I* should not be used as a wallet simply because you decide that you wish to dismiss that consequence.
There is no such thing as a surplus of these services and everyone, low-income or not, is deserving of them. Taking action in service of one’s future is only venerable. That is what “Live free or die” means, after all.
I wrote to the three council members who defunded Planned Parenthood. I asked them whether their decision means they will endorse legislation to have the full scope of women’s health care services covered by Obamacare. I asked them if they plan to increase taxes in order to help support women forced to carry unwanted or nonviable pregnancies to term. Most importantly, I asked them who, or what, is being protected by depriving women and families of affordable and accessible health care services?
I am still waiting for Chris Sununu, Joe Kenney and David Wheeler to reply. I ask them to use facts in their answers and to provide them via the Concord Monitor.
(Allison Gilbert lives in Concord.)
And if Obamacare is supposed to be the all and end-all, who needs PP and even MORE tax monies?