Birth control’s worst enemy
As one who was raised Catholic I knew several busy bodies like this women. Don't believe in birth control? Then don't use it.
Helen Alvaré has been leading Catholicism's fight against contraception
By Sarah Posner
Helen Alvaré (Credit: Aid for Women / CC BY 3.0)
What’s a conservative activist to do when Jon Stewart digs up a CNN clip that’s more than a decade old in which she opines that Viagra fills a legitimate healthcare need but contraceptives do not?
In Helen Alvaré’s case, the answer is to own it. Alvaré, a law professor at George Mason University, an advisor to Pope Benedict XVI’s Pontifical Council for the Laity, and a former spokesperson for and current advisor to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, used her Daily Show cameo as the starting point for a recent speech at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. The mockery of Jon Stewart was proof, Alvaré suggested, that sexual libertines don’t understand the nature and purpose of sex, and that they certainly don’t understand religious liberty. Because, she argued, Stewart and the government share the belief that sex “is not related to procreation directly, intrinsically, axiomatically,” they simply cannot comprehend the gravity of how contraception damages women.
“Only with this view,” Alvaré added, “could a comedian or a government conclude that if a man has a condition that makes it difficult to procreate, that’s not a medical problem. But if a woman is in a position where she can procreate, then she needs some medicine, and it better be free.”
As the contraception mandate took center stage in national politics, Alvaré has seized the moment, not just to offer legal arguments against the mandate, but to position herself as a leader of women who are opposed to contraception. Three months ago, she co-authored an open letter to the Obama administration, “Women Speak for Themselves,” charging that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, by enacting public policy based on the science that contraception is essential healthcare, doesn’t represent the views of all women.
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/03/birth_controls_worst_enemy/singleton/
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I think you need to go kick some ass. lol. 
some people like tradition because it makes them feel connected - some people feel like history and its traditions are the nightmare from which they are trying to awaken (h/t to mr james joyce)
it seems to me, if people take someone's name - both parties should take one another's names. or keep it simple and keep yours.
some of my female religious family members wanted me to lie at the hospital and use my husband's name when our child was born so that people wouldn't think our baby was illegitimate.
I heard that and just thought... what the fuck is your problem? I'm supposed to care if a nurse who will never see me again thinks my baby is illegitimate... or think some child was not good enough even if it was?!?!?
not to mention that most women I knew also had not taken their husband's names and the mother of one of the women in my lamaze class was working on the floor...
but - really - women are their own worst enemies sometimes - as we see with this nutter in the OP and too many women who provide free labor for organizations that are dedicated to their oppression.
that we need more women in politics and I agree, with one modifier--that they be advocates for women's rights, not for policies that increase women's suffering. Anyone not wishing to 'support women's contraception or family planning'--think about the suffering that will result from families who have no access to healthcare. If you can live with that, congratulations on your complete lack of empathy. But this is not what kind of country we want to live in!
Women's Suffrage--it's back.
condemning us for "immorality". 
