Liberals Who See Pregnant Women as Victims of a Disease

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | June 30, 2014 | Rush Limbaugh

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RUSH: Midland, Michigan. Greg, great to have you, sir. Do you still have your water turned on or is that just Detroit that's had half of their water turned off?

CALLER: My water's working great.

RUSH: Great. Great. So the UN is not in town trying to alleviate the lack of water where you go. That's good. That's good.

CALLER: No, no. We have plenty of lakes in Michigan so we're all good.

RUSH: All right. Cool.

CALLER: All good. Well, a first time caller so I really appreciate you taking my comment. This is in regard to contraception. You know, contraception is a personal choice. And when there are things that go on inside my body that I can't control, health care, yeah, insurance should cover that. But when you start crossing that line of personal choice, you're opening up a whole new door to a whole new list of things that could be added to that. For example, my gym membership.

RUSH: Wait just a second. Wait just a minute, though. Did I hear you right, you said contraception is a personal choice?

CALLER: It's a personal choice.

RUSH: No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. That's where you're off the path.

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: Contraception is not a personal choice. It's a right.

CALLER: Yeah? Yeah. Well, some might think that, all right?

RUSH: Right.

CALLER: It's a personal choice. Well, it's my right to go to the gym. Should they start paying my right to go to the gym? It's my right to sit in front of the TV, which now studies will show that affects your health and your mental state. So should they start paying for my cable bill? I know a young woman that used to cut herself. That was a personal choice. It's her right, it's her body, right? Should they start covering those costs as well? Once you cross that line, Rush, it just opens up a whole new list to dive into.

RUSH: Bingo. Once there is no personal responsibility, once everything you do is actually something that happens to you, then you become a victim. And when you become a victim, then you are victimized by somebody. And when you are victimized by somebody it's largely going to be a conservative or a Republican, in which case you can then petition the government to fix it.

So, in your example, contraception, that's not a choice. That's a right. When you got pregnant you were victimized by nature. You may not have even intended it. It doesn't matter that you took the steps necessary to cause it, because you don't have that kind of power, not in the way the left looks at the world. You're a victim of something. Other examples, let me tell you how those things will manifest. You talk about your gym membership. Under Obamacare it is entirely possible because they're in charge of who gets what kind of medical care and how much treatment and how much money is going to be spent on each case.

They are going to be able to say someday if they want to at some stage in life, if you get sick, and if some belief exists that if you had gone to the gym earlier, if you had exercised, you wouldn't have been sick. So they're not gonna cover you for previous decisions that you've made. And because of your age it just doesn't make sense to invest in whatever it would take to cure you. It would be better spent on younger, more potentially productive people. Someday they may be able to require you to do a certain amount of exercise. They may be able to limit the number of days or hours you can watch TV if you are going to get health care. This is the kind of sweeping control over people's lives that Obamacare is gonna end up providing to government.

Now, I know the people that don't want to hear about politics, "That's never gonna happen. Come on, Rush, that's so extreme, it would never." That's exactly what kind of power they seek. It's the old death panel argument. So whereas you're looking at this as, "Well, shouldn't they? I mean, if we're gonna cover a woman's contraception, why shouldn't they cover my cable bill," and then this kind of thing, 'cause it's making you sick, right?

CALLER: Right.

RUSH: If you go to the gym, you're trying to make yourself better. If everything is designed in some way, shape, manner, or form to either gonna make you sicker or cure your sickness or make you healthier, shouldn't they pay for it, given you're not responsible for anything? And that's what your thinking is.

CALLER: Yeah. And I'm totally against all that. I think that health care should be provided for those that -- I can't control what's going on inside my body, therefore --

RUSH: Wait a minute. No, no. Wait a minute. With everything known today, quote, unquote, about what causes cancer, you might be able to prevent it, say, by not eating certain things. I mean, look at the cockamamie beliefs every day we are treated to about what causes this sickness or that sickness. You get the point.

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