New Study Helps Explain Why Hobby Lobby Supporters Are So Fiercely Opposed To Birth Control
by Tara Culp-Ressler, thinkprogress.org -- July 9, 2014
Throughout the ongoing debate over Obamacare’s contraceptive coverage requirement, a common theme has emerged among many of Hobby Lobby’s supporters: the idea that ensuring access to affordable birth control is harmful to society because it leads to promiscuity and infidelity. Several right-wing groups filed amicus briefs in favor of the crafts chain arguing that women simply shouldn’t be having consequence-free sex. But where exactly does this idea come from? One research paper offers a theory.
According to new research published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, the attitude that women shouldn’t be having sex can at least partly be traced back to the idea that women are supposed to be economically dependent on men. The researchers suggest that this link may drive conservative religious communities’ insistence on sexual purity.
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The researchers conclude that this outdated attitude toward women’s pregnancy risks and financial needs hasn’t totally gone away, despite the fact that modern contraception, legal abortion rights, and greater workplace equality have created an entirely different society.
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3 Ways Hobby Lobby Ruling Could Impact 2014 (Video)
by Emily Cahn, rollcall.com -- June 30, 2014
There should be -- even MORE than that ...
Case in point, about those competing world views, on a woman's place in the world ...
U.S. Senator Agrees With Supreme Court Decision Because Women Use Birth Control ‘Largely For Recreational Behavior’
by Igor Volsky, thinkprogress.org -- June 30, 2014
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) agreed on Monday that women use birth control to protect themselves from “recreational behavior,” just hours after the Supreme Court ruled that some companies can refuse to provide health insurance coverage that includes contraceptive services.
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Lee, responded by saying
“Yea, that’s right, that’s right,” before claiming that “this administration is using the often coercive power of the federal government to force people into their way of being and their way of existing, their way of believing and thinking and acting.”
However, the overwhelming of women report using contraception for economic and medical reasons. Sixty-two million women in the U.S. are currently in their childbearing years and most — 99 percent — use birth control to prevent pregnancies, the National Women’s Law Center finds.
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Are 99% of Women Wrong -- to want easy access to Birth Control, and actually use it?
-- even though the ancient 'dinosaurs' of GOP -- and the Supreme Count -- would rather they Not!
Every Senate Candidate needs to explain, where they stand on this very 'modern', and once common-place health right for Women:
Do they stand with the Corporations -- demanding Religious Rights, (and the Conservative Activists, their Supreme Court enablers) --
OR do they stand with 99% of Women -- so "promiscuous" to actually have used Contraception?
Every thinking-voter, should want to know.