Someone needs to volunteer to edit Kathryn Lopez’s writing before she publishes it on the interwebs. She asks why the Republicans are waging a war on contraception and then says that they aren’t really doing that. Then she says she wants to turn back the clock to before women had the pill, but then she says that we obviously can’t turn back the clock. Here’s the meat of what she’s trying to say to us:
The spending fight over Planned Parenthood in Congress is about a number of things. It’s primarily about good stewardship, as so much of the spending debate is. But beyond legislation, beyond anything Congress can or should do, it is a call to arms for a new sexual revolution. It’s about wanting more for ourselves and for those whom we love. It’s about ending the surrender to a contraceptive mentality that treats human sexuality as just another commercial transaction.
Who knows where to even begin with this addled thinking? The defunding of Planned Parenthood is “primarily” about good stewardship? Or is it “primarily” a calls to arms? It is about contraception or abortion, or both? She wants the government to end a “contraceptive mentality” through the social engineering of not funding contraceptives? How will people get the message?
Has it ever occurred to Ms. Lopez that families can’t get by on a single income anymore? Is she completely oblivious to the fact that working women need to have control over when they have children? Is sex between husband and wife a “contractual transaction”? How about between consenting adults? Who is getting paid?
And she gets paid to write this stuff.
What is with this strange longing for a time when women’s destinies were determined by factors that were barely in their control, if at all?
Come, come, Ms. Lopez, elucidate your thoughts.
