Contraception Is Not Healthcare . . . Because Pregnancy is Not a Disease

Can we stop referring to contraception as healthcare and stop referring to availability of free contraception as a women’s health issue?

A woman is not healthier by avoiding pregnancy.  Women are not healthier by ingesting synthetic hormones, a Class I carcinogen.

 

The most comparable “medical” treatment I can think of would be plastic surgery.  The argument for both is basically the same:  There is an aspect of my body (appearance or fertility) which is functioning normally and healthily, but I believe it limits my happiness and freedom, so I will seek a treatment which modifies my body to suit my desires.  Contraception and a nose job are different aspects of the same thing.

Fundamentally, contraception is an elective treatment.  If contraception must be provided free of charge in healthcare plans then why not plastic surgery?

Anyone who uses the phrases “reproductive health” or “women’s health” with respect to contraception should immediately lose credibility.  The phrases “reproductive subversion” or “women’s fertility avoidance” are more accurate.  I won't go into all of the many side effects and risks of hormonal birth control, but the fight against breast cancer would be much better served by getting our wives and daughters off the pill, than dressing our sons in pink gloves and socks for a football game.

Contraception, whether we are talking about the pill, condoms, or an IUD, inherently disrupts the natural functioning of the body. 

Even when contraception pills are used as a means to treat legitimate medical conditions like endometriosis, in most cases, it simply results in the masking of a real health condition and trading one set of symptoms and risks for another.

The most frightening aspect of considering contraception healthcare is that it inherently sends the message that pregnancy is a disease. 

If this is healthy,

then this must be unhealthy,

and a family with 4 or more children is an outright epidemic.

Considering contraception to be healthcare, especially essential healthcare that should be provided free of charge to all people, is a very dangerous lie.  It has led us to where we are now with the HHS Mandate.  It can lead to more frightening situations like China’s one child policy, which is now being “eased,” but which will cause tremendous demographic problems in China for generations.  I believe it is fundamentally tied to school shootings, and all societal problems stemming from the devaluing of human life.

Contraception is not healthcare.  It suppresses the normal healthy functioning of the human body, commonly through ingestion of a Class 1 Carcinogen.  Contraception is population control. Contraception is eugenics.  Contraception denies the dignity of the human person.

#ContraceptionIsNotHealthcare  because #PregnancyIsNotADisease

Further reading:

http://www.1flesh.org/theproblem/

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2012/03/contraception-is-not-health-care/

Before you counter with an overpopulation argument, please watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsAracLBCxI&feature=youtu.be

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In my previous post I explained my belief that abortion and abortion causing drugs are murderously evil and that we need to do something against the tyranny of a government that will force its citizens to participate with evil.  This poses the question, "What are we supposed to do?"  We are not members of the Supreme Court, we will not directly decide the rulings on these cases.  Still, ultimately the government will act in concert with public opinion.  We need to show the broader culture that this loss of liberty is a significant step along a frightening road.  I have a few ideas I'll share below, but I'd love to hear additional ideas in the comments.

1.  Share your support for religious liberty.  Share your beliefs on social media with hashtags like #ReligiousLiberty #HobbyLobby #ConestogaWood #goodmenandwomendosomething

2. Vote with your dollars.  Make a purchase at Hobby Lobby and share it online, or donate to the Becket Fund to support the legal team for Hobby Lobby, Little Sisters of the Poor, and many others. 

3.  Participate in a rally, march, or protest.  I'm organizing a march in Mason, OH on March 16th. 

Facebook Event - March for Religious Liberty
G+ Event - March for Religious Liberty

If you can't make it to to this event, consider staging your own.  Create an event, invite your friends, and encourage them to invite their friends.  This is how grassroots movements grow.  Even if no one shows up but you, you will at least know that you tried to do something.  As Mother Theresa said, "God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful."

4.  Pray.  This is the most important item in this list.  We need to trust in God's plan while we spread His truth.  Pray with your family, with your friends.  Offer sacrifices for the cause of Religious Liberty.  We'll never know in our lifetimes the impact of our prayers but we can trust that they do have impact.

Share any other ideas in comments.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph . . .

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."  

I've been thinking about this quote the last couple of days.  These words are popularly attributed to Edmund Burke an Irish Statesman/Philosopher, though there is little evidence he spoke or wrote this exact phrase.  Still, regardless of where the words originated, I have to admit they seem to ring true.  These words call to mind the atrocities brought about under political leaders like Mao, Stalin, and Hitler.  Each of us hopes we would have been the one to hide Jews in our attic, or be the one who would voice opposition to such abhorrent acts as occurred under these leaders even if it meant harm would come to us or those we love.  But then it is easy to think "Those were different times.  No evil like that could persist in a free society like ours."

But, then I have to ask,"Is this really true?  Am I sure there are not evils that persist in this country?  Am I doing nothing or next to nothing to stop them?"

In over 40 years since Roe v. Wade, 55 million babies have been aborted.  The population under 40 in this country is about 165 million.  So since Roe v. Wade, roughly 25% of the population has been willfully exterminated before birth.  Some may deny this is evil and even celebrate it as a triumph of "Choice" or "Reproductive Freedom," but this truly is the intentional termination of a unique human life.  If you deny this I challenge you to define exactly when a human life begins if it is not when the egg is fertilized and a new, unique DNA sequence is created.  Science proves that it's just varying stages of development from that point forward. So in my book, this is evil, murderous evil.  

But this is an old story.  Abortion has been the most divisive issue in this country throughout my lifetime.  Abortion in itself is not what has brought the dawning phrase of this post to my mind so much recently . . .

On March 25th, the supreme court will hear arguments regarding whether the Government has a right to force Hobby Lobby to violate its conscience . . .

When the Enron scandal occurred, I thought "Wow, these guys sought profit above integrity and morality and they are getting what is is coming to them.  The country is really laying into these guys for valuing profit over morality."  In reality our entire financial system is built on truthful disclosure of information.  In a sense, the law requires a corporation to have a conscience. But, now we have the case of a company, Hobby Lobby, that clearly places their morality above profit, because closing of a retail store on Sunday is undeniably not a profit maximizing behavior.  If this were a publicly traded company, it could be argued that closing on Sunday is a breach of their fiducuary duty towards their shareholders.  Still, I don't see this country coming to their defense when they fight to follow their conscience.  We can't in the same breath claim that corporations should have a conscience and then deny their right to exercise their conscience.  

Hobby Lobby is refusing to provide abortion causing drugs in their health plans for employees.  Anyone who believes that human life is created when new human DNA exists, must agree that these drugs are evil, murderous evil.  While less visible and seemingly less violent than other forms of murder, if we believe all human life is inherently valuable we must accept this is truly a form of murder.  

To me this is truly historic, because our government is transitioning from simply condoning evil to forcing its citizens to participate in evil.  In short, if this is not the moment when good men and women need to do something then I do not know what is. 

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