Women and Contraception

Feminists for years have had their slogans. One of their traditional sayings is, "Keep your hands off my body". They use it to assert a right to abortion, based on the idea that their body is their body. How does that sentiment work within the context of the recent contraception imbroglio?

We now have the Sandra Flukes of the world claiming that the government ought to pay for their birth control. Does this mean that the government can put its hands on their body?

Of course not, as such. What we have here is the typically liberal demand to give the liberals whatever they want and for whatever reason they want it. Never mind the obvious contradiction going on within their thought. They want birth control, it costs them money, so someone else should pay for it. Simple as that.

The fact is that women control the entire birth control and its sister abortion rights debates in a way which would have them up in arms if the tide were turned. If a woman wants an abortion she can get it, no matter what the father of the baby might say. Yet if he doesn't want the child, she can still carry it to term and sue for the support of the father.

Inconsistent? To be sure. But the left cares not about consistency. This latest example but makes the point crystal clear. They want what they want because the want it, and no amount of reason will turn their sights from that. With your money and their libido, they can have the times of their lives.

Yet conservatives are the selfish ones in the world. Go figure.