ACLU Backs Reid/Clinton Contraception Bill

Posted on March 21, 2006

The American Civil Liberties Union has released a statement “hailing” a bill which would increase funding for programs that they claim are aimed at preventing unwanted pregnancies. They do so while adamantly opposing all efforts to teach the one birth control program that is known to work 100% of the time it is tried, abstinence. The ACLU has recently gotten the federal government to pull funding for abstinence only programs but yet hails the use of federal funding for distribution of condoms, instructions on their use, advocates the sale of Plan B over-the-counter for “women” 16 and over, federally funded birth-control, and federally funded abortion.

This latest heralding of a bill introduced by liberal Senators Harry “The Sleeping Pill” Reid (D NV) and Hillary “I’ll Never Be President” Clinton (D NY) would increase federal funding for the following programs:

1) Requires coverage for prescription contraceptives in otherwise comprehensive drug benefit plans. [Government regulation of private industry. After all, insurance companies are not arms of the federal government.]

2) Promote awareness of emergency contraception. [Forget about taking personal responsibility for your actions. Let's just eliminate and cover up using a pill called Plan B. That's a Clinton deal all the way.]

3) Fund medically accurate programs to reduce teen pregnancy. [But ignore teaching avoidance of what causes pregnancy in the first place.]

4) Increase family planning services for low-income women. [Code for Abortion - After all, what is Planned Parenthood?]

The left’s answer for every difficult problem is to get rid of it quickly as possible and forget that it occurred. A girl gets herself in a family way because she made the following WRONG decisions.

1) She chose to have sex.

2) She chose to not use protection at the time of the sex act.

And then the left would have the girl make more WRONG decisions by using Plan B or RU486 to terminate the pregnancy or result to using a procedure which has been linked to increased occurrences of breast cancer, post abortive infections, and depression brought on the remorse of having the abortion. The vast majority of women who have an abortion will have more of them. It is seen as a quick and easy resolution to a problem brought on by irresponsible behavior.

I believe that it is a crime to use federal tax money collected from vast numbers of people who don’t believe in artificial birth control because a segment of the population decides to have irresponsible sexual relations. Some religious communities have strong beliefs against premarital sex. This bill would force these people to pay for artificial contraception without teaching abstinence programs which is the only 100% effective form of birth control. It works 100% of the time that it is employed. You can’t get pregnant if you don’t have sex.

But the ACLU objects to ANY restrictions on social behavior. In their minds you should be free to do whatever you want whenever you want to do it. And if something negative happens, the federal government should pay for you to correct the problem. Personal responsibility is something that is foreign to the thinking processes of not only the ACLU, but every one of these so-called free-thinking liberal minding morons in this nation. Why should I pay for your mistakes?

If these irresponsible people were forced to live with the consequences of their bad decisions, perhaps this would become a deterrent to irresponsible behavior.