Does the Obama administration believe women live and die on the issue of free contraception?
Evidently the answer is yes.
Read these excepts from today\’s lead story in the New York Times and see for yourself:
TheObama administration, reeling from back-to-back blows from theSupreme Court this week, is weighing options that would providecontraceptive coverage to thousands of women who are about to lose itor never had it because of their employers\’ religious objections.
The administration must move fast. Legal and health care experts expect a rush to court involving scores of employers seeking to take advantage of the two decisions, one involving Hobby Lobby Stores, which affects for-profit businesses, and the other on Wheaton College that concerns religiously affiliated nonprofit groups. About 100 cases are pending.
One proposal the White House is studying would put companies\’ insurers or health plan administrators on the spot for contraceptive coverage, with details of reimbursement to be worked out later.
Another would give the administration itself a larger role in offering cost-free coverage to women who cannot get it through their employers, although the option for a new government entitlement appears unrealistic for financial and political reasons.
The White House is under such pressure that no one has been able to work out details of how the alternatives would be financed or administered.
I have a few questions:
-Does the New York Times – and, for that matter, the left in general – believe that a woman\’s sphere of interest ends at her reproductive system?
Not every woman needs contraception. Not every woman wants it (read the polls: there are about as many pro-life women as pro-choice). Not every woman believes contraception should be part of health insurance coverage.
To read a lot of the material being put out on this subject and listen to the administration, you would swear that the ability to have sex to their heart\’s content, and to have every means of doing away with the potential result of that sex given for free, trumps everything else in women\’s lives. It doesn\’t. Amazing though it may be to some so-called “women\’s advocates”, jobs, the cost of living, taxes and the terrorist inroads around the world are relevant to women as well. Maybe even more than free contraceptives.
-How come free contraception is completely gender-specific? How come ObamaCare does not offer free condoms – all varieties so men can pick and choose the ones they like, maybe even free vascectomies?
When a woman becomes pregnant, she is 100% in control of whether a man does or does not become a father, legally responsible for a child he may or may not want. So why don\’t men get in on the gravy train too?
-And the most important question of all: when do some women start realizing that many of the people telling them they somehow deserve unlimited free contraception of every kind, care a great deal less about their reproductive rights and a great deal more about convincing them they are victims?
Fortunately, some women – a pretty good-sized number, actually, are onto this. But, sadly, a good many are not.
See, if women can be convinced that a) they are owed free contraception, b) this is a major – maybe the major women\’s issue, and c) that the left is a tireless ally in the quest for free contraception, a great many women will buy in, and vote based on this premise.
That is why the left has spent this past week trying everything in its power to convince women that the Supreme Court\’s Hobby Lobby decision prevents them from getting contraception – an absolute lie, since, even before the decision Hobby Lobby agreed to pay for 16 of the 20 forms of contraception in ObamaCare.
There\’s an old saying: keep \’em ignorant and you own \’em. And the claim that offering insurance coverage for most means of contraception is equivalent to offering no contraception at all is designed to do just that. For a good many women it\’s working too.
It is sad how many women are being played for suckers this way. I hope they come to know better before November.
