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Other feminists and I have been saying for YEARS that the GOP anti-abortion crowd was really itching to ban regular old contraception (by equating the Pill with abortion), as well as dog-whistling against women's basic autonomy and humanity, but now they've come out and said it.
You can't be for small government AND for government intervention in the most personal decisions any woman of childbearing age has to make. It's sheer hypocrisy. Unless your true aim is to establish male supremacy and take women's rights back two thousand years, of course.
”They’ve called it preventative medicine. Preventative medicine,” said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, on the House floor last month, shortly after the Obama administration adopted the recommendations of an expert panel and agreed to add contraceptives to a list of services insurance plans will be required to provide without a deductible or copayment. “Well, if you apply that preventative medicine universally, what you end up with is you’ve prevented a generation. Preventing babies from being born is not medicine.”
You can't be for small government AND for government intervention in the most personal decisions any woman of childbearing age has to make. It's sheer hypocrisy. Unless your true aim is to establish male supremacy and take women's rights back two thousand years, of course.
