{"id":2965,"date":"2011-03-19T07:10:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2012-10-30T17:56:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T22:56:52","slug":"blogrepublicans-wrong-on-contraception-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/blogrepublicans-wrong-on-contraception-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog: Republicans wrong on contraception issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/scott_final.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/scott_final-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"scott\" width=\"400\" height=\"141\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1568\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Attention all readers: as we speak, all of your money is being stolen by the government to pay for college girls to have sex. This appalling turn of events is all Obama\u2019s fault, and the only way to stop it is for Newt Gingrich to build a permanent base on the moon. Just kidding.<\/p>\n<p>The latest controversy in the political spectrum has been huge. There has been a movement from the Democrats to get contraception provided to women through their health care programs. Though these birth control medications have other uses, Republicans have been whining about the plan, claiming a violation of freedom of religion and \u2018traditional values.\u2019 In the past few months, I have learned to hate that phrase. Abiding by traditional values essentially means not to learn from mistakes and keep being ignorant morons with the same \u2018morals\u2019 as 18th century colonies.<\/p>\n<p>Contraception has been proven to help women not only with preventing pregnancy, but also with controlling acne among other things. The Catholic Church has been very openly against this, and yet 98% of Catholic women have used birth control at some point in their lives. So are the women complaining? A few, but it\u2019s mostly the old dudes who run it. <\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago, I had the opportunity to read <em>The Lottery<\/em>. In this story, people stone someone to death each year to keep corn growing in their field. You\u2019re probably thinking, \u201cThat\u2019s stupid! Why would they do that?\u201d Good question. Because, and I quote from the story, \u201cthis is the way it\u2019s always been.\u201d Yes, it\u2019s an extreme example. But, I guarantee that if this had actually been going on in our country, these people would want it to continue. After all, it\u2019s \u201ctraditional value.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Never mind that there\u2019s no logical basis in any of their arguments. Now, of course I believe in religious equality. I do think that everyone should be free to believe what they want, and free to express their opinions. However, this is starting to get ridiculous. Wouldn\u2019t it actually be better for the global economy, where the population is growing out of control, if we could control how many children we have? When faced with a decently logical argument, the extremists once again reply, \u201cwell, this is the way it\u2019s always been.\u201d Hate to break it to you, buddy, but times change.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that contraception only helps women, and will only continue to do so. There are so many other benefits besides preventing pregnancy, and even if that were the only thing it could be used for, why stop it? Women should be able to be intimate with their significant other even if they aren\u2019t ready for a child. Though Republicans have their rights too, that doesn\u2019t allow them to deny 98% of women contraception because they don\u2019t like it.  Freedom of religion does not allow you to trample on another\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Bays: For multiple reasons, the party shouldn&#8217;t object to the  clause in Obama&#8217;s health care proposal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[109,28],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-blog","tag-scott-bays"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blog: Republicans wrong on contraception issue - UPDATE ONLINE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/blogrepublicans-wrong-on-contraception-issue\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blog: Republicans wrong on contraception issue - 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