They Are Coming For All Birth Control

[appalachiablue]

- Daily Kos, Feb. 19, 2022. - Ed.

Wrap your brains around this. All 3 Republican candidates for Michigan Attorney General support reversing the Supreme Court’s 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut.

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I also found it amazing that all 3 of these wannabe head attorneys for an entire state struggled to even remember what the Griswold case was. It’s one of those big cases extensively covered in Constitutional Law 101 in law school. Prior to the Griswold decision the state of CT had a law making it a criminal offense to use “any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception.” Yes, those really are the exact words of the statute. So the law would criminalize birth control pills, IUDs and even “male contraception” such as condoms or possibly even vasectomies.

In the particular facts of the case, the prosecutors didn’t have the guts to go after the married couples who sought to use such contraception. Rather, the married couples sought the advice of a physician who gave them advice on contraception. The physician was then prosecuted and convicted for “aiding and abetting” the un-prosecuted married couples. The Supreme Court 7-2 declared the CT law an unconstitutional infringement on “marital privacy.” 7 years later, in Eisenstadt v. Baird the court extended this Constitutional protection to unmarried couples.

Of course, the 3 wannabe Attorney Generals for Michigan can’t tolerate this whole “right to privacy” thing because that leads to abortion rights & gay rights & all matter of sinful whatnot.

A right to privacy only extends to having unregistered guns in their view. Well that & not being compelled to prove your vaccination status, but I digress. Of course, the real point of such laws is to advance the putatively “Biblical” notion that the proper role of women in society is to be breeders & mothers, and not much else. Women can be best removed from day to day society, & the workplace, by compelling them into those roles. CT’s law was itself a reflection of the Federal Comstock law, which for those seeking The Handmaid’s Tale metaphors, read in part like this: - More + 370 Comments,

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/19/2081250/-They-Are-Coming-For-All-Birth-Control

[PortTack]

1. Wait till women start having elective hysterectomies. It actually should be their male partners

Having vasectomies..but.

[Hekate]

16. That's major surgery, but effective. Back in the bad old days it was called Catholic contraception...

Vasectomy, on the other hand, is an easy snip-snip.

[PortTack]

18. Yes it is...women want control over their bodies...we'll see if the men step up

[elleng]

2. Have been ever since Roe v. Wade.

[SheltieLover]

6. Yup

[Rhiannon12866]

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[appalachiablue]

4. Thanks a bunch, awesome!

[SheltieLover]

5. Kicking for visability

[appalachiablue]

11. Tame them wimmen! Alls thar good fir is breedin 'an submishsun. Git

bak thar in teh kichen where ya belong. Them real jobs is only fur menfolk!

How very Hitlerian, Adolph started this in the 1930s.

[Captain Zero]

7. Put it like this to the manly men of Michjigan. This election is about your freedoms

All the republicans are coming for YOUR FREEDOM to do the little woman doggy-style, or any other hot positions you like to do her.

You don't have to vote for the democrats but you better not vote for these guys.
They are coming for your freedoms in the bedroom.

[littlemissmartypants]

8. The pill is medicine.

I was prescribed it before I would ever think of being sexually active to treat PCOS*. I had friends in high school taking it to control extremely bad acne. Which it did like a wonder drug. I'm sure there are other examples of the medicinal value of these hormones.

Why do these lawmakers believe that they are qualified to practice medicine? Why can't that lack of a degree and medical license be instrumental in challenging these bolviating asses opinions of their roles in professional practices that they know nothing about?

Practicing medicine without a license is supposed to be a crime. Why doesn't that apply in these cases?

I don't understand it.


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* https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pcos/symptoms-causes/syc-20353439

[appalachiablue]

12. Yes, the science and reality

[Chicago1980]

9. Fuck em' into extinction and create more brown and mixed-race babies...

[Chainfire]

10. From the party that claims that Democrats hate freedom.

[appalachiablue]

13. Major hypocrisy for those too dumb to understand

[COL Mustard]

14. Major Hypocrisy

I may have to steal that as my screen name if we ever get the opportunity to change them again!

[appalachiablue]

20. Cool! :)

[Chainfire]

15. The right wing's definition of freedom

is for them to tell you how to live, who to love and who to hate. They have all of the answers even if they don't understand the questions. I spent way too much time in their presence.

[roamer65]

17. Dana Nessel in a landslide in November.

[BlueWavePsych]

19. K&R

[appalachiablue]

21. More than 5 yrs ago Thom H. brought up this intention; he was right.