I wish we could have an honest, calm, structured, pointed debate about contraception. Among the issues I would love to discuss are :
1. What’s up with these college girls getting contraceptives? Under traditional morality, a young healthy college girl does not need to be on the pill. Where did the presumption come from that college girls “need” to take the pill?
2. There have been some studies suggesting that long term use of the pill and other hormonal birth control has some bad long term health effects. Perhaps this whole area should be looked at more closely, with girls and women cycling off the pill more frequently to give their bodies a break from it.
3. With all the uproar with Rush and Sandra Fluke and all that, we lost sight of the issue, which I thought was coverage of contraception under health plans. We should debate whether contraception is a healthcare issue in the first place. It’s an issue for couples to deal with, but is it a “health” issue as such? Nobody seems to ask this question.
“Nobody seems to ask this question.”
Noman does.
I’m with you all the way. The Fluke stuff is pure theater to let the Lefties get off the defensive and onto the offensive.
Even Obama jumped into the fray to laud her courage. I guess it would take courage to lie in front of Congress, if it hadn’t been a Nancy Pelosi circus.
The issue is not one about “contraception” -that is the strawdonkey erected by the lefties to distract from the real issue —the 0 usurped the Constitutional powers of government to strike against religion-and the free exercise thereof. The Catholic Church -to my knowledge has never approved of Contraception -or abortion as contraception. Obamas’ administration insists the right to deny life in the womb trumps any religious rights.And that violation of the Constitution is the issue.Anything else here is a distraction.