Word ‘O the Day
by digby
“Abortofascism”
Of course.
Kirk Kelsen believes birth control is “ABORTIFASCISM” and that the ACA decrees “you must, under the law, dine exclusively at the government buffet serving up abortifacients,” which I guess will be their next legal argument if this one fails — isn’t being forced to eat at the same table as abortion cruel and unusual.
Edroso also does the definitive round-up of the right wing reaction to the Hobby Lobby case. Honestly, it’s way worse than you thought:
Well, the Hobby Lobby lawsuit somehow made it all the way to the Supreme Court. The glue and glitter chain’s argument, and that of other religious employers, that providing health care which might tempt their employees into pregnancy-free sex was against their religion was put forward last week by lawyers from the Becket Fund, named after Thomas Becket, who like Hobby Lobby was persecuted for his religion by a tyrant.
As typically happens when birth control is mentioned in their presence (see Fluke, Sandra) rightbloggers portrayed the case as one in which sluts forced the innocent to buy them slut pills.They also promoted stranger ideas — for instance, that liberals were trying not just to enforce their so-called “law” but also to destroy religion, using health care coverage to that purpose (because what other purpose could it possibly have?).
No really:
Because Justices Elena Kagen and Sonia Sotomayor had the temerity to ask questions during the hearings, Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom madsplained what they actually said: “fuck the First Amendment. And fuck natural, unalienable rights. We’re in charge here, not some airy fairy notion of rights that we are not allowed to provide or take away,” etc. After this lengthy monologue, Goldstein told us that “what we’re witnessing is a coup” and that the Court’s Obamacare decision in 2011 — in which you will recall the Justices did not order Obama to be executed by Jeff Goldstein, but upheld most of the law — “may prove to be the very last tug on the thread that unravels Constitutional protections, individual autonomy, and the entire Bill of Rights.” Don’t worry, folks, he does this every week, the prankster! (Amy Ridenour noticed Sotomayor asking Hobby Lobby about paying the fine, and portrayed it thus: “Justice Sotomayor may be willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater.” What is it about liberals and murdering babies?)
When Kagan “asked whether a victory for Hobby Lobby would invite employers to object to other treatments, such as blood transfusions and vaccines,” professional health-care-system wrecker Elizabeth McCaughey said at the New York Sun that “[Kagan’s] vision of a uniform society where all are forced to put aside their diverse beliefs and march in lockstep with the government’s mandates, sucked the oxygen out of the courtroom.” Next thing you know they’ll be putting fluoride in our water. McCaughey followed up, “What a contrast to the six male Justices, who, despite their ideological differences, searched for a way to accommodate the administration’s goal without injuring the Greens and other employers spiritually opposed to abortion drugs.” Lady justices ruin everything!
That’s right. A woman writer was horrified by the uppity commie women justices and very impressed by all the men who were much more civilized. Don’t ever believe that women are a political monolith.
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