http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/09/19/the-right-wing-on-healthcare-stupidity-or-lies-the-eternal-conundrum/ Bioethics, healthcare policy, and related issues. Tue, 22 May 2012 19:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/09/19/the-right-wing-on-healthcare-stupidity-or-lies-the-eternal-conundrum/comment-page-1/#comment-429426 Feministe » Dumb or Dishonest? Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:10:11 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/09/19/the-right-wing-on-healthcare-stupidity-or-lies-the-eternal-conundrum/#comment-429426 [...] I just discovered that the teabagger contingent is protesting health reform by appropriating the old familiar feminist slogan, “Keep your laws off my body.” Except there is a big difference between the spirit of the original meaning and how it applies, or doesn’t, to health reform today: Unlike the issue of abortion rights – wherein the same noisy faction that opposes healthcare for others also aggressively campaigns to prohibit women from controlling their own bodies, and to force them to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will – the proposed plan for universal healthcare access doesn’t impose any unwanted procedure on anyone’s body. [...] [...] I just discovered that the teabagger contingent is protesting health reform by appropriating the old familiar feminist slogan, “Keep your laws off my body.” Except there is a big difference between the spirit of the original meaning and how it applies, or doesn’t, to health reform today: Unlike the issue of abortion rights – wherein the same noisy faction that opposes healthcare for others also aggressively campaigns to prohibit women from controlling their own bodies, and to force them to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will – the proposed plan for universal healthcare access doesn’t impose any unwanted procedure on anyone’s body. [...]

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