Great column in the Waco paper about the war on birth control which is being waged by the theocrats in the GOP and the Bush administration. The right wingers want to overturn the right to privacy established in Griswold v. Connecticut -- a case that overturned a state law prohibiting birth control for married couples. Yeah, that's how far the wingers want to go. I'm not sure why the Democrats and the pro-choice groups don't make birth control more of an issue:
After all, a Harris Poll found that 90 percent of Americans support the use of contraception.CNN keeps promoting an interview that Larry King is doing with George and Laura Bush on Thursday night. He needs to ask them about the Bush family policy on abstinence and contraception. Is what they're trying to impose on the rest of America the same policy in the family? King is too much of a wuss to ask, but someone should.
Check that. Harris found that 90 percent of Catholics support contraception.
Among Americans, the number is 93 percent.
Yet, New York Times Magazine recently presented the alarming case that our government is a staging platform for a "war on contraception."
Considering how many Americans use contraception, or support it matter-of-factly, this is comparable to being governed by forces sworn to eradicate peanut butter or fluorescent lights.
Yes, the issues aren't comparable. But public acceptance being comparable, how could officials elected by the people be so inclined? Maybe it's because the people who ought to care just don't.
They should. Making it possible for one to control one's reproductive destiny short of a crisis pregnancy would be, should be, one of the centerpieces of health policy, sort of like reading or math in education.
