Posted on 11/23/2012 7:26:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Every so often, I share breakthrough stories about advances in “human rights” around the world.
In France, it is against the law to say your husband is under-endowed or that your wife is fat. Across Europe, a satellite dish is now a human right. In Finland, broadband access is a basic right. There’s now an entitlement for free soccer broadcasts in Europe.
In Italy, you have the right to…um…your testicles.
Now, in honor of Sandra Fluke, the United Nations has decided that contraception is a human right. Not just a human right, a universal human right. The New York Times reports on this big news.
The United Nations says access to contraception is a universal human right that could dramatically improve the lives of women and children in poor countries.
So what’s the big deal? Surely people should have the right to buy a condom.
Paid for with your tax dollars?
Yes, but we’re talking about the United Nations, so you won’t be surprised to learn that there shouldn’t be any “financial barriers” to birth control, which means people have the right to have other people pay for their fun and games.
It effectively declares that legal, cultural and financial barriers to accessing contraception and other family planning measures are an infringement of women’s rights. …The global body also says increasing funding for family planning by a further $4.1 billion could save $11.3 billion annually in health bills for mothers and newborns in poor countries.
Well, Sandra Fluke surely will be happy about this news. Even though national governments safely can ignore U.N. pronouncements, this is yet another sign of a growing dependency mindset.
P.S. Speaking of Sandra Fluke, you can enjoy some laughs with this great Reason video, this funny cartoon, and four more jokes here.
In addition to being my former debating partner, Richard Epstein is one of America’s premiere public intellectuals.
You can watch him make mincemeat out of George Soros in this video, for instance, and you can listen to his astute observations about his former law school colleague Barack Obama in this video.
Oh, my gosh. That was so bad I had to cleanse my musical palate with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARnBgW5XgSo&feature=fvwrel
“Yep - they got the job done. “They Won”. We lost. Again.”
Sandra Fluke is the epitome of an entire new group of voters, that I have named the “ladyparts voters”. This group voted 68% for Obama on election day. It’s not going to be easy, and may be all-but impossible, to win them over to our side. Once a ladyparts voter, always a ladyparts voter.
“…Or will we just return to being the great silent majority again?”
Silent, perhaps, but I’m afraid not “a majority” all that much longer...
That horror show looked like Bath Salts Boys. Awful as it was, I had to watch it thru to see if that POS broke an ankle/leg falling off those shoes. LOL.
A quaalude would have helped tolerate it. Thank Heavens, my Logitech keyboard has a mute button!
With a face like Sandra Fluke’s I don’t really see where the need for contraception comes into play. Maybe there’s a lot of alcohol involved...
Every person in America has ACCESS to contraception, there are drug stores and other pharmacies in every town in the country. So if the UN has declared it a ‘Human Right’, we met that a long time ago. The pertinent question is does everyone have the ‘human right’ to compel someone else to PAY for their contraception?
Regards,
GtG
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