Some serious Fluke-y stuff going on out there

I'm talking about Sandra Fluke's insistence that others pay for her birth control and the meme being played out by leftists and their psychophants in the media that those of us who question Ms. Fluke's logic are misogynists and crass for suggesting that perhaps Ms. Fluke should simply opt to have less sex.

The facts are that Fluke and those who think like her are asking the rest of us to pay for their ability to have sex absent concerns for getting pregnant.  Period.  Fluke and those she's championing are attending an expensive law school while asking others to pay to prevent the natural consequence of their sexual proclivities.  They want this, they tell us, because they tell us they can't afford to pay for the prevention of pregnancy themselves... and we're supposed to be ashamed for pointing out that perhaps Ms. Fluke and her friends should either pay for her contraception herself or quit spreading her legs so much.

Some are suggesting that Fluke was actually simply fighting for those who use birth control pills not to prevent pregancy but as treatment for a variety of women's health problems.  To which I ask, sincerely, are birth control pills the only effective treatment?

I suggest that this is merely more of the feminist mantra that women ought to be able to do whatever women desire to do as to sex and its consequences.  And if this means engaing in sex while having others pay to prevent pregnancy or killing the offspring that results, so be it, and a pox on anyone who would dare question the morality of such behavior.

We've slid down the cultural decay hill a pretty long ways when those who question the logic, the character and the decency of women desiring to have sex while demanding others pay to prevent them from becoming pregnant are seen to be the problem.

A very long way down that hill.

Comments

[allyHM]

Um...yes, sometimes what is known as a "birth control pill" is the best treatment for some things, like the endometriosis it turns out that I have. The only other options are an IUD or a hysterectomy. I opted for the pills.

Having said that, I don't expect anyone, not even my insurance, to pay for them because they ARE used as birth control pills, too, by other people.

[model_1066]

Even for a hooker she's pretty stupid...how did she get into college? Oh, right...

[RandomThoughts]

I can not believe Rush Limbaugh issued a public apology to this slut for calling her a slut: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/03/v-print/2673883/text-of-rush-limbaugh-apology.html

The world really has gone mad.

AllyHM, I know that there are woman such as yourself who use the pill to treat medical conditions. I even know of women who use it for dermatological reasons. That being true, the vast majority of women use it purely for birth control. It's disingenuous of Fluke and her sponsors on Capitol Hill to argue that somehow a sizable number of women will be denied crucial--even life saving--health care for serious conditions if they can't get free birth control pills.

[Morgan K Freeberg]

Sycophants.

Standard Morgan rule still applies, in fact, it applies here even more than in other situations: Take this one, filter out the elements of the situation that arouse the greatest emotion and therefore seduce reason, and then re-evaluate.

Imagine Sandra Fluke is a dude. He goes up before Congress to say, I need taxpayers to pay for my headache medication, and occasional perforations of my skull to relieve the pressure of bleeding on the brain, because I like to hit my own head with a hammer. I do it a lot, In fact, I think I’ll do it right now…whee! ++Wham++.

Famous radio personality goes on the air and says, what a f*cking idiot.

He’s subsequently forced to apologize.

You can see more clearly from this hypothetical that there are some important issues that aren’t entirely clear in the Sandra Fluke mess. We are individuals; individuals make choices and some of these choices are bad ones. To be a strong society, we need the individuals who make bad choices, to watch and learn from the other individuals who do not make the same bad choices — not the other way around.

Time to invoke the apocryphal John Wayne quote: Life is tough, it's tougher if you're stupid.

[allyHM]

Random Thoughts: I was responding to specific question in the original blog post. BTW, I have used birth control pills for birth control in my life. I'm not Catholic. I used them in a time in my life where I was a bit of a wild child, and I used them during my first marriage (for which I am ETERNALLY THANKFUL because having to share custody of a child with that man would have been unbearable). I have no need of them now (married to a godly man who just happens to have been "fixed" long before I met him and long before he came to Christ). But see, here's the thing: getting pregnant and having children would have put both me and the baby at great risk due to certain medical issues I have that are no big deal seperately but are a recipe for disaster when combined. In fact, I miscarried very early on twice with my first husband. God knew what he was doing all along. Bearing children was not God's path for me; helping to raise my two now-grown step-daughters (and now our two grandchildren) was. LASTLY, through all of the time I took hormone pills AS birth control, I paid for it myself, out of my own pocket, and I didn't expect anyone else to pay for it since I was making my own choice about my personal behavior. I may have been raised by liberal parents, but they did instill personal responsibility and accountability in me (I know, I'm as shocked as you are).

[Ace]

http://www.quickmeme.com/Sandy-Needs/popular/?upcoming

They made a meme.