Wordnik: noun The ability or right to approach, enter, exit, communicate with, or make use of.
Traditionally, access to something means the ability to use it. It doesn’t have to intimate cost, price, process, or anything else. It only means I can procure it.
Like buying groceries or a new car. I have access to a store to obtain them. Common usage also means that I would have to pay for them, too.
For years I have been railing about Progressive/Socialists redefining our language out from underneath our feet to advance a political agenda. It’s a way of silencing we Normals – control the idea, control the language. Control the language, you control the debate. You can’t debate something with words you can no longer use because someone else has defined their meaning out of existence. Yes, doublethink.
Access Has to Mean Free
Most of us got mad when the Democrats were going to throw a political monkey wrench into the 2012 Presidential race when George Stephanopolus asked a question about contraceptives during a Presidential campaign and all the candidates (and the audiences) went “Wha?? Where’d that come from?” And then we learned that the Dems wanted to use it as a wedge issue by redefining access. As I said at one point:
Of COURSE you must remember Sandra Fluke – we wrote about her often enough (Steve: ‘Sandra ““I can’t afford my own 9$/month birth control pills” Fluke) who turned the word “access” (it is available and I can buy it) into meaning “I want it – you have to buy it for me; if it ain’t free for me, I have no access to it” never understanding or acknowledging that she believes she should have a free ride on the backs of others for her “fun”.
So, here comes New Hampshire’s junior US Senator, Maggie “The Red” Hassan, with yet another redefinition of “access” (when it comes to birth control) via a campaign email blast (emphasis mine).
Team,
As the Trump administration undermines women’s health with efforts to roll back protections that prevent women from being charged extra for birth control, Senator Hassan is doubling down on her efforts to expand it. Last week, she co-sponsored a bill that would ensure that over-the-counter birth control is affordable, accessible, and covered by insurance without cost sharing and without requiring a prescription.
The background of this is that Obamacare, which Hassan supports, made contraceptives “free” to the end user (women). All of the cost is initially borne by the insurance companies who are then going to get it back by charging higher premium fees. From your pocket to Sandra Fluke via Planned Parenthood and back into Democrat PACs and campaign funds. Such a country!
But the Republican plan to make all contraceptive available (e.g., accessible) over-the-counter, meant that no one would have the paywall of doctors/Physician assistants/nurses/ el al and then to the pharmacy to contend with anymore. OTC would mean that the insurance companies would be out of the loop. Sure, birth control would be MORE accessible according to a Normal’s definition (available to more people, available in more places, and lower cost to the end user), but that screws up the Maggie Hassan / Socialist model that we all have to pay for everything for everyone else.
It’s common sense — by mandating that over-the-counter birth control be completely covered by insurance, this legislation will help ensure that women from all walks of life are able to access affordable contraception, and have control over their bodies and their futures.
It seems like EVERYTHING Progressives / Socialists / Democrats want you to pay for is because ACCESS and COMMON SENSE. Of which, neither is true. They’re just conditioning and retraining you for their redefinitions.
But Senator Hassan is easily the most vulnerable Democrat up for reelection next cycle, and Republicans will use her efforts to protect access to reproductive health care against her. That’s where you come in:
And it goes on from there from continuing the Planned Parenthood pipeline and adding your campaign donations to her. All to protect the process of making YOUR money pay for someone else’s fun.
Was this the Proper Role of Government as foreseen by our Founders? That its purpose is to provide birth control for free?
I think not.
