Birth Control

God doesn’t want you to have the choice of having kids. And through his servants (who have a constant hotline to the man (that’s right, MAN)) the good people at the church have made sure that even people who aren’t a part of their religion will have to jump through hoops to get birth control through their employer’s insurance providers. Onward Christian soldiers!

For those of you who don’t know, the Obama Administration was trying to make it so that employers need to offer an insurance plan that covers birth control to their employees. Including church funded hospitals and universities. And because the church is running low on Catholics, the church opposed it hiding behind freedom of religion. Throw a few Republican conservatives in the mix talking about government control and you get a compromise that allows women to obtain contraception but have to go through their insurance providers instead of their employers to get it. Confused? That’s because it’s fucking confusing.

This is bullshit. It’s archaic for anyone to be denied a form of healthcare because they work for a fucking zealot. I’d like to point out that just because you work at a church funded hospital does not mean you are a part of that religion. So now religion has control over a part of your life. Because that’s okay… right?

Rick Santorum (fuck Rick Santorum) had come out and said, “It’s not about contraception. It's about economic liberty; it's about freedom of speech; it's about freedom of religion. It's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop.” So, the government giving women the option to get control over their lives is the government controlling your life? You fuckers came up with the goddamn Patriot Act and you’re now talking to me about government butting its head in my life? I’d like to point out how this man is doing what seems to be a very Republican thing to do. Notice how he tries to distract people from the real point (which is contrafuckingception) and points at unconnected shit like the freedom of speech and economic liberty (really? Really?).

The Obama Administration compromised and allowed religious institutes to be exempt from the requirement but the church is still opposing the requirement because of “serious moral concerns”. That’s right; the government making sure a woman has access to the birth control pill is immoral. It’s even more immoral then, say a group of priests making sure that a kid toucher stays one step in front of the police by moving him from church to church.

The government making it easier for you to decide when to have a family is not an infringement on religious freedom and it is not a path for government control.