Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that Hobby
Lobby doesn't have to pay for the birth control
pills and abortifacient drugs of its employees.
Immediately, the usual suspects in the abortion
and population control lobby went into their
customary histrionics. With a lot of arm-flapping
and gnashing of teeth, they began painting
this picture of women lying dead in the gutters
of every American city because this heartless
decision took away their health care.
These people are liars. Let's get one thing
straight once and for all: birth control and
abortion are not health care. And that is
not a theory; that is a fact.
Secondly, let's also make it clear that this
ruling does not deny anything to anyone.
It simply says that the employees of companies
like Hobby Lobby will have to fund their own
sexual activity.
Of course, the pill pushers argue that this
denies women their constitutional rights.
And again, they are liars.
Look at it this way: people have a constitutional
right to freedom of religion and a constitutional
right to own guns. But no one is claiming
that the taxpayers have some sort of obligation
to buy Bibles and pistols for people who can't
afford them.
So if you want to believe that women have
a constitutional right to abortifacient drugs,
then you just go right ahead. But you cross
the line when you argue that the rest of us
are required to pick up the tab.
