The Washington Post reports on a “controversial” meaure [1] that would:
increase funding for family planning clinics, expand Medicaid and private health insurance coverage of contraceptives, require hospitals to make emergency contraception available to rape victims, and allocate money for comprehensive sex education programs that teach youths about birth control as well as abstinence.
Here’s the money quote. You might have to read it several times to believe what you’ve read:
“There’s a utopian view that women ought to be able to have sex any time they want to without consequences _ that’s the bottom line of all these bills,” said Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America, a conservative group which opposes the measures.
Now let’s see . . . whose body is it?
There are many people in power who believe that the government has a right to keep citizens from seeking private consensual pleasure in a way that they choose. Conservatives often attack Roe v. Wade on the alleged basis that Roe has no basis in the Constitution.
On this issue of access to birth control I would respond: where in the constitution does it say that consenting adults don’t have a right to seek pleasure, where many of them are adults in their 20’s, 30’s 40’s and up, and especially where many of them are married to each other?
For more on conservatives and their arrogant attitudes toward controlling the harmless sexual impulses of others, see here [2] and here [3] and here [4] and here [5].
For some of the real-life health benefits of having sex often, see this list [6], based on an article from Forbes Magazine.
Parting thought: Wouldn’t we be better off as a society if people had babies only when they intentionally had babies? I can’t believe that we’ve gotten to the point where such a position has become “controversial.”
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