The stupidity of HHS.
Sep. 1st, 2008 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabidsamfanAlmost everything I want to say about this is said much better here.
But I'll add this much. If government regulations protect "conscience" to the degree that a person can't be "discriminated" against for failing to do their jobs, it will impose a hell of a burden on the rest of us, who'll have to pay to get more employees hired who'll take up the slack.
There is a real drive to make birth control -- not just abortion, but any kind of birth control -- illegal in this country. It's governed by an "all or nothing" logic which purports to be about children, but is really about denying the notion that a fully grown woman has a better right to exist than a zygote. It also purports to be about "God's Will" without allowing that the omniscient and omnipotent deity being called upon certainly must have the means and the power to assure that any child who should be born, will be born.
If you don't want to live in a place where a rapist's sperm is valued over your health and happiness, go and comment.
But I'll add this much. If government regulations protect "conscience" to the degree that a person can't be "discriminated" against for failing to do their jobs, it will impose a hell of a burden on the rest of us, who'll have to pay to get more employees hired who'll take up the slack.
There is a real drive to make birth control -- not just abortion, but any kind of birth control -- illegal in this country. It's governed by an "all or nothing" logic which purports to be about children, but is really about denying the notion that a fully grown woman has a better right to exist than a zygote. It also purports to be about "God's Will" without allowing that the omniscient and omnipotent deity being called upon certainly must have the means and the power to assure that any child who should be born, will be born.
If you don't want to live in a place where a rapist's sperm is valued over your health and happiness, go and comment.
