Posted on 03/27/2014 5:42:37 AM PDT by NYer
Catholic ping!
Of possible interest to your list, ping.
The Left, as they’re wont to do, is desperately trying to destroy the true meaning of the word “right.” They want to bastardize the idea of “rights” to mean anything that someone might want to have.
A “right” is something that cannot be taken away. The fact that they have to go through the courts to try to codify this garbage is indicative of this not being a “right” in any way. It can be taken away.
If there’s supposedly a “right” to birth control, a “right” to choose (abortion), a “right” to marriage (other than a man and woman), then the 2nd Amendment should be a Right to keep and bear any kind of firearm anywhere in the USA.
Further, it appears that the Left is trying to redefine a “right” as something that is furnished free by the gov’t or an employer. Does that mean that our right to bear arms necessitates “free” firearms for all?
And then dismantle the genuine rights outlined in the USC; the RKBA, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from illegal searches etc.
Once the process is complete you will find that we have no rights and that we have become, in fact, subjects of a tyranny that knows no bounds.
Sure.
diabetics have the right to free foot massages to promote blood flow, saving there feet.
High BP and heart patients have a right to free healthy food and a personal chef to cook it properly.
I have a right to be picked up in an armored car and delivered to work safely.
Sure, lets all make a wish list
The “poor” have every right to spend $10-15 a month of money confiscated from producers on birth control if they wish- nobody’s stopping them. Two packs of smokes less will be good for them!
Our Constitution and the rights it enumerates is not based on having a certain level of medical knowledge, nor does it impose rights to some at the expense of others. All the "rights" that the left demands does just the opposite.
No, it goes further. If you follow the logic of the left then the government should have to PAY for your right to bear arms. Therefore I should be getting compensated for that nice H&K I just purchased.
Nyer,
Good Post. And I think an additional issue of the ‘right to birth control’ is the crusade of the environmental leftists. They are turning something good, protecting the environment into “worshiping the environment” and giving it dominion over humanity, as God created us.
I recommend this article for your reading and consideration: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-environmentalist-eugenics-of-the-left/
Since I have both diabetes and high BP, I think your recommendation makes sense. I shall be writing my Congress Critters (Mikulski, Cardin, Hoyer, & Edwards) immediately asking them to get with Princess Pelosi and Dirty Harry to sponsor and enact that legislation immediately.
Don’t worry, I’m joking about writting them, but only out of fear they would do it. I know I can safely write them about my conservative positions with the knowledge that those will never, ever be considered.
You are articulating the difference between rights and entitlements. Free speech is a right, healthcare, education and retirement fund would be entitlements, if they were funded by others and provided for free. (Whether that would be a good thing or a bad thing for the greater society is a separate question.) But it does appear that the left wants to cloud the issue between rights and entitlements.
On a separate note, having an entitlement of birth control is entirely meaningless without, first, an entitlement to sex. I demand universal access to cute, nubile females, provided for free. If, and only if, the birth control expenses exceed my ability to pay, then and only then should we start talking about any entitlements to birth control. But please: first things first!
There is absolutely nothing blocking people from getting birth control. NOTHING This whole FUBAR situation is an argument that Sandra Fluck has to pay for her own birth control.
The way I see it, there’s a right to be able to buy and use birth control - but there’s no right to force me or anyone else to pay for it.
Indeed - that’s what they’re wanting to do, get it accepted as axiomatic that the government is the grantor of rights,
and therefore can ungrant those rights when “necessary”.
The other part of this, the deeper part, is their visceral hatred of Christian morality. Whenever they encounter it, they attempt to destroy it.
The way the left sees it - if you’re unable to afford a “right”, then that “right” has been denied you.
There is no “Right” to Birth control. The Lord in Genesis blesses the couple and instructs them to go forth and multiply.
He doesn’t say go forth and kill.
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