The forbidden “birth control”! Much
of the political arguments have highlighted this issue for a few weeks. I’m
probably getting upset even though I’m not a birth control user yet because of
how outrageous and ridiculous these debates are! Birth control, abortions, why
are men talking about those issues and why aren’t there women on the platform
of these arguments? Also where is the separation of church and state?
I just read an article and
I pasted the link bellow. In the article, a law student in Georgetown
University is requesting to speak in front of congress about the issue of birth
control. And as a consequence Rush Limbaugh says, ““What
does that make her?” On his Wednesday night show Limbaugh says, “It makes her a
slut, right? It makes her a prostitute.” “She wants to be paid to have sex,”
Limbaugh continued. “She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the
contraception.”
So when men have too much sex but
they don’t need contraceptives because they don’t get pregnant, they aren’t
“sluts” or being “prostitutes”. So why is this a case where a young law student
is publically humiliated by such a strong public figure? And let’s say she
actually is having too much sex, who is he to say what is too much or too
little? There is never too much sex for men. So why is it wrong for a girl to
be in touch with sexuality? And if he is concerned about women having multiple
partners, well there are thousands of women who are in marriages, committed
relationships, or even use birth control for multiple other uses like acne,
extreme cramps, or hormonal imbalances. Health care should be affordable to everyone not just to upperclass citizens! Birth control should be affordable to people who actually want to take it, the option should be there.
What do you guys feel about this
issue? What are the steps to be taken to change this dilemma? Why aren’t there
any women standing in those arguments?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-buzz/post/rush-limbaugh-calls-georgetown-student-sandra-fluke-a-slut-for-advocating-contraception/2012/03/02/gIQAvjfSmR_blog.html?tid=pm_local_pop
While I feel that what Rush Limbaugh said is wrong on so many levels, and he has subsequently lost a large number of his sponsors, I think the issue of women standing in these arguments does not fall under a broad category other than lack of women in the positions that actually get to debate these topics in such a publicized manner on a regular basis. There are plenty of women that partake in debates such as this on local levels or on the innumerable "slut walks" I see all over the internet, i just think there is not a central female politician or mediacentric woman that is yet willing to take a solid stand on the issue so vehemently as Limbaugh did, for fear of loss of sponsorship or backlash for stating what can be (or what are in the case of Limbaugh), outlandish, unbased claims.
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