The Federalist Wants To Be Part Of A Rhythm Method Nation

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.wonkette.com/the-federalist-wants-to-be-part-of-a-rhythm-method-nation

Now that abortion will almost certainly soon be illegal in many parts of the country, the war on birth control can truly begin in earnest. "What?," you say. "I thought they just loved fetuses! If they love fetuses, shouldn't they really love birth control?" LOL NO.

As such, The Federalist published an essay extolling the virtues of the family planning method most likely to lead to an unintended pregnancy — the rhythm method! Of course, they don't really call it that anymore, probably because of how it is famously ineffective. Now they are calling it "fertility awareness." The article's title, in fact, is "The Birth Control Industry Is Neither Liberating Nor Pro-Woman, But Fertility Awareness Is Both."

Except for how it is not.

The article's author, Grace Emily Stark — the editor of something called Natural Womanhood, which we can safely assume is not an Aretha Franklin fanzine — tries to make the argument that the real Girl Boss Empowerment Liberation comes not from being able to control our reproductive futures, but from crossing our fingers and hoping for the best.

She writes:

In all of the furor surrounding the (likely) imminent demise of Roe v. Wade, it has become clear to me that women have been made to fear and resent their biology for far too long. Too many women have bought the lie that they have no options but to rely on hormonal contraceptives and, if that fails, abortion. But the broad dependence on these methods — making women responsible to manage their own and men’s fertility — is actually patriarchal and anti-women.

*snip*

[Ray Bruns]

1. Well, we all knew that was coming. When did the catholic church become the

policy maker for the United States?

[SharonClark]

2. and the Evilgelicals.

[keep_left]

3. The writer of the article, Grace Emily Stark, is also a "Ramsey Institute Fellow"...

...at the "Center for Bioethics and Culture". IOW, more wingnut welfare. It looks like a Protestant Evangelical group that's been infiltrated by Catholic radtrads obsessed with pelvic issues. There's a little information at the links below. The CBC has enough resources for two locations (MO and CA), so they're not a small organization.

Isn't The Federalist the wingnut welfare magazine that Meghan McCain's husband runs?

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Bioethics_and_Culture
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jennifer_C._Lahl (CBC director and a real piece of work)

[snowybirdie]

4. Wait til

the ladies bar their partners from the romantic boudoir for half the month!

[BoomaofBandM]

5. My 6 brothers and sisters and I will vouch that it did not work well for our Catholic parents.

[Wounded Bear]

6. Didn't they used to call that "Rhythm and Blues?"

[gratuitous]

7. And, as everyone knows, every woman's body runs like a Swiss-movement clock

So you can chart - right down to the minute - when she's fertile and when she's not. Why, if you listen closely, you can hear a woman's ovaries and uterus ticking like a parking meter, measuring out the phases of her monthly cycle with a precision unequaled in science or nature.