No to Birth Control; Yes to Viagra

The War on Women doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon.  The last couple of weeks have seen a bill in Virginia requiring a vaginal ultrasound for all women seeking an abortion even though it isn’t medically necessary.  That’s nothing short of a punishment for women who dare to seek abortion services.

Not the government’s business!  It’s a form of rape by government.  The very same people who want no government interference apparently have an exemption for women… since we’re second citizens I guess. 

Amazing how insurance has always covered viagra but not birth control.  It’s ok to have sex if you are a man, but not for women.  Some right wing conservatives have even gone so far as to say that birth control is a form of abortion!  As if preventing the conception of a baby is comparable to aborting a pregnancy.  However, we don’t want men to have any impediments to sexual satisfaction so they need their viagra. 

Even though the Virginia bill was, I believe, changed to a regular ultrasound rather than a uterine one, we also now have a bill introduced in Texas to force women to view a picture of their ultra sound before they can get an abortion.  Again, government is penalizing women over their own health care choices.  I find it very similar to voter suppression.  Intimidation and narrowing access; that’s how its done!  You wouldn’t believe how many pharmacies refuse to dispense the night after pill. So, no help for a women who’s been raped the night before, especially when she doesn’t want to go to the hospital where, incidentally, she’s not guaranteed the pill either.

And Rush Limbaugh’s comments!  I thought women had already won the sexual revolution in the 60’s and 70’s.  Now it is 2012 and women still can’t have sex without being called a whore.  (But men need their viagra.)  I’ve heard several people (many of whom just so happened to be men) on the radio saying they shouldn’t have to pay for women’s birth control. 

You see even with insurance co-pays, each service that is covered, gets added into the computation of insurance premium.  So, they don’t want to pay for women’s birth control (which prevents abortions, unwanted pregnancies, lots of medical and societal costs and so on,) but they want me to pay for them to be able to get it up!  Now that’s what I call unfair!

And that’s not even mentioning that the woman Limbaugh was talking about wasn’t even talking about her own use of contraceptives, nor was she talking about the use of birth control for pregnancy prevention.  But you know, all the people who listen to that show will swallow it all, hook, line and koolaid.

It does help to hear that several (up to 20 at last count) advertisers have dropped Limbaugh, so the entire society hasn’t gone nuts.  But every day I hear some new crazy idea for suppressing women.  Needless to say, I’m stocking up on blood pressure meds!