Birth control, remarkably, is still on the front burner in Connecticut politics. In the U.S. Senate race, Democrat Chris Murphy has been slamming Republican Linda McMahon over her support of a GOP amendment in the senate earlier this year that could have limited access to birth control. In New Britain, there’s a proposal to hand out condoms to high school students.
Didn’t we leave this debate back in the 1970s? Or still part of the 2012 discussion about politics?
From a blog post by the Family Institute of Connecticut, which doesn’t like the idea at all:
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According to Gallup only 24% of the nation supports Abortion on Demand as ‘birth control’.
This issue won’t die. Technology and free contraception will bring abortion right to the forefront again. I expect SCOTUS challenges over the viability standard.
and if Obama wins and gets to pick 2 more members of SCOTUS, is there any doubt which way they will vote? When you can’t count on the leaders of the three branches of government to do what’s best for the country and to follow the constitution, we may as well put a hammer and sickle on the flag
So if only 25% support it, then only 25% will use it and you have no concern. Unless you would like to take this right away from the 25% who want it.
Mike: please point out where birth control is a ‘right’ in the Constitution. While you’re at it point out where that ‘right’ is paid for by everyone BUT the individual who needs it
I did not say constitutional. I meant if something is legal then you have a right to do it. You have a right to drive your car on a public highway for example. Abortion is a legal service that women have a right to use. Also, I did not say anything about who pays for it.
you couldn’t be more wrong Mike. You don’t have a ‘right’ to drive a car on a public highway. You first have to get a license. then you have to keep that license unencumbered from blemishes. Just because something is legal doesn’t imply you have a right to it. The only right you have is the opportunity to take steps to earn the ‘privilege’ (not ‘right’) of taking advantage of the act.
And something being legal adbsolutely does NOT give anyone the ‘right’ to afford themselves of the opportuntiy, and most certainly NOT at the expense of others. You really need some education in the difference between rights and opportunities.
Perhaps this quote will help you to understand: “The concept of a “right” pertains only to action—specifically, to freedom of action. It means freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by other men.”
Your concept of ‘rights’ is especially skewed when you try to apply it to contreception. By forcing me to pay for your contraception, you are walking all of my right to be free from compulsion and make my own choices and decisions as to who and what I am willing to support, if any.
Who needs birth control when they can get a free apartment, free healthcare, foods stamps, earned income credit from the state and feds, and free baby sitting money to pay mom’s to babysit while they work part time and go to school. And don’t forget that student loan money. It’s like 35-40K tax free.
BUT Don’t forget- if EVERYONE gets all the Birth contorl and abortions they want, WHO will pay for out national debt?? With the current birthrate everyone not yet born owes $50,000.00 – but don’t worry that doesn’t include that which is not yet spent – so if the birth rate drops, it goes UP among less people!