Thursday, July 3, 2014

How Can You Bring Yourself to do That?




I just don't understand how any woman could possibly support any organization, corporation, politician, or random stranger that wants to take away their rights. I just don't get it.


With this Hobby Lobby case, and the SCOTUS ruling that our bosses can take away our right to choose what is medically best for us, it boggles my mind that any woman would cheer for this. Has the media done that good of a job that there are women who actually believe contraception causes abortion? I get that some women are against abortion; so much so that they will fight to take away our right to choose that. But really? I understand that men want to remain in control. It's so engrained in our society that men rule and women should shut their whore mouths, but for any woman to back that. I just can't wrap my head around it. We are systematically going backwards in time. What is to come? Will women lose their right to vote again? And will there be women who support that decision? I understand that's reaching pretty far, but who's to stay where this stops? The SCOTUS majority are Roman Catholic men who have zero regard for women. What speaks to them is money, and the ones who have more money to sway these men are other men who want to keep women under their control.


This Hobby Lobby case is not about birth control. I don't care if they still offer 16 of the 20 contraceptives available. The fact remains that they have won the right, THE RIGHT, to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body. She is paying for health insurance off each and every paycheck. She is expecting to use that health insurance for what she and HER DOCTOR deem medically necessary. And Hobby Lobby, among hundreds of other closely held corporations, now have the power to control if she has access to that medication, despite the fact that she's paying for her health insurance.


I don't pretend to fully understand how health insurance works. I'm assuming I pay this amount each paycheck, but it actually costs this amount, and my employer picks up the difference. That doesn't give my employer the right to say what I can and cannot use my health insurance for! I pay well over $200 a paycheck for health insurance. Yeah, that's a lot of money. So don't come at me saying that YOU'RE paying for my birth control, because you're not. I am.


Corporations have become people, and women have become nothing. And we have women, who are considered nothing, supporting this ruling, supporting this spiral that America is on. I'm not so much angry at Hobby Lobby, because they're assholes and I don't care about them. I'm not so much angry at the frightening precedent the SCOTUS has just set in this country. I am SO ANGRY that there is even ONE woman, let alone hundreds, who actually support their rights being stripped away.


Women: we're simply chattel.

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