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Feb 12
Government regulations for the pill
I found another article about how we are trying to regulate women’s health, this one is not as focused as the last one I read, and still can not find. This one has a bit more humor and a few quotes from some good Conan Brothers film. The article talks about how we follow religious doctrine (or do not follow it) and asks why is something most people have moved away from is so important to us. Ill try and put up more of these when I see them.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-w-smith/were-no-angels-americans-_b_1273301.html
I’m finding it really interesting to think about why this controversy has arisen NOW. Contraceptive coverage isn’t a new rule — it’s been federal law for more than ten years.
Do you remember the first week of the quarter when we built the timeline and brought it up to 2012, and I asked if anything had happened yet to shape discourses of sex/sexuality? As it was still early January, it was pretty hard to think of anything. I suggested that perhaps the fact that the leading candidates for the a major party nomination for president were all on record as opposing not only abortion but birth control might turn out to be a big deal.
I remember that it was somewhat of an issue when Obama unvieled his new health care plan in the beginning as well. Although it does seem to have become a much larger issue in the past few months. These current Republican canidates all seem to hold on to old and dated ideas about what is morally acceptable. Why do people like them cling to ideas that do not fully allow the expression of freedoms that people WANT to have. The United States was founded as a place where religious oppression was suppose to be taken out of government, now they want to hold religious beliefs higher than individual rights. That seems like a backwards and out of place ideology for the era and time we live in. I wonder if in the coming years as more people of my(our) generation enter the political arena if some of these misplaced ideas will still be upheld?
I’ve been watching the daily show (episode 2.13.2012) and gathering tit bits of news here and there when possible and noticed that the discussion about the congressional birth control hearing doesn’t involve any female genders on the board. The hearing seems to show the lack of birth control importance for women, but birth control for religion. In doing so he barred females from speaking at the hearing.
The political push that religious corporations have is insane. Look at the amount of funding that catholic groups spend in supporting anti-gay efforts on a daily bases. It also doesn’t help that religious intuitions also get a large sum of federal fund which are at the same time tax exempt.
I feel that we won’t ever reach a level where government and religion can be separated. After all government workers are ran by such people.
I read an article last week (or maybe it was just a blog), about a committee of senators or congressmen who were heading that campaign. The committee is comprised entirely of men. The author was focusing on the irony of the committee working to prevent access to birth control, even though there are no women on the committee, and none that seem to support the idea. I personally find the whole concept to be distasteful. I have strong feeling on the subject and I don’t want to offend anyone on here. However, i do believe there should be some new legislation concerning birth control. I believe any female, who has reach physical maturity and is menstruating regardless of their age, should have access to any birth control method including the pill. I believe that this should be strictly between physicians and their patients. Parental consent or knowledge should not be necessary. Confidentiality laws should protect the individuals’ privacy including from parents.