Contraception and Freedom
July 1, 2014
“FREE” contraceptives and abortion-causing drugs, distributed via government fiat, are the ultimate expression of what the writer E. Michael Jones, borrowing a phrase from St. Augustine, called libido dominandi. In Jones’s definition, libido dominandi is the drive for political control through sexual freedom. In his book of the same name, Jones wrote that a regime of sexual liberation is one of bondage, rendering citizens distracted and controlled by their passions and the havoc that results. In his preface to Brave New World, a fictitious rendition of this rule, Aldous Huxley wrote, “As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase.”
In the libido dominandi society, we are told that the natural functions of a woman’s body are a threat to her health. Bureaucrats routinely utter this ridiculous falsehood and no one bats an eye, which is why this nation of libidinous serfs and contraceptive poppers, who do not even notice how thoroughly unprecedented this all is in the history of humankind, will be despised by the unhappy few in forthcoming generations.
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court, in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, ruled that family-owned corporations are exempt from the “Affordable Care Act’s” requirement that they must provide insurance coverage for drugs that terminate the lives of human beings in the womb. This is news that should be put under the file: “It Could Be Much, Much Worse, But Things Are Still Very, Very Bad.” Corporations have had to request permission from the federal government to exempt themselves from encouraging and facilitating population control and the pharmaceutical murder of unborn children. We are far advanced down the road to serfdom despite this ruling.
By the way, Obama, who does not consider an over-riding decision by another branch of the government to be a deterrent, has not taken this ruling as the final word. He plans to try to get around it by seeking federal coverage for abortion pills for the women who are now excluded.
This all reminds me of the time my family stayed in a mountain campground and next to our campsite there was a man who was staggeringly drunk all night. He kept yelling, “Freedom! Freedom! Free-ee-ee-ee-dom!” He ended up sitting in his own campfire, roasting himself on the flames.
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Robert writes:
Thank you for that insight on the connection between Contraception and Freedom”
According to Herman Cain on WSB Atlanta, the Hobby Lobby ruling was somewhat broader than that. He stated “Closely Held” corporations. Then went on to say that “90% of the corporations in the United States are closely held corporations.
Lynette and I plan on celebrating by taking those of our grandchildren who visiting for the 4th with their parents to the Hobby Lobby here in Milledgeville, on Saturday.
Laura writes:
I should have referred to “closely held” corporations, rather than family-owned companies. I gather that many of them are family-owned, but not all. Here is a definition of closely-held corporations. I also read at one news site that they represent 90 percent of American corporations, but I have not been able to confirm that elsewhere.
However, my point is not that the ruling is insignificant, but that the very fact that companies had to seek permission from the government to decline to insure life-terminating drugs for their employees is a sign of how little freedom the “private sector” has and how immoral our government is.
By the way, Hobby Lobby objected to insuring abortion-causing drugs and is willing to insure a long list of contraceptives for its employees.
Lance writes:
I’m no longer surprised, but no less (uselessly) enraged by the thought processes (assuming that insanity is an example of things with thought processes) of so-called progressives.
I asked my sister-in-law.. I said, “Hey, through a process of stretching the parameters of the 14th amendment to the point that it makes no sense, the Supreme Court decided that you have a right to contraception. Does your right mean that I have a duty to pay for your contraception?”
She replied, “Well, yes. That’s how it works.”
“So,” I said, “The 1st amendment asserts my right of speech. That means I have a right to write emails. Correct?”
“Yes.”
“So, just as I’m supposed to pay for your morning after pill, how about you pay for my computer?”
“Well, that’s different.”
I chucked her out the third floor window, following the principle: If you can’t beat ’em, throw ’em out the window.
