This morning CNN published an op/ed from Sandra Fluke, a 30-year-old, professional advocate for socialized medicine posing as a feminist college student:
These attempts to silence women and the men who support them have clearly failed. I know this because I have received so many messages of support from across the country — women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.
Who are these supporters?
They are women with polycystic ovarian syndrome, who need contraception to prevent cysts from growing on their ovaries, which if unaddressed can lead to infertility and deadly ovarian cancer. They are sexual assault victims, who need contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancy.
They are Catholic women, who see no conflict between their social justice -based faith and family planning. They are new moms, whose doctors fear that another pregnancy too soon could jeopardize the mother’s health and the potential child’s health too. They are mothers and grandmothers who remember all too well what it was like to be called names decades ago, when they were fighting for a job, for health care benefits, for equality.
A “social justice-based faith” seeks to achieve heaven on earth through remaking America’s political, religious, and cultural institutions. Fluke and the president rely on this political theology to inspire them in the fight to force Catholic employers to subsidize birth control.
This differs from a “God-based faith” which seeks to inch the individual closer to heaven through mystical practice, ethical monotheism, and the emotional support of a spiritual community.
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Related: Kathy Shaidle at PJ Lifestyle today on radical gay activists pushing Los Angeles to mandate straight pornography performers wear condoms on location shoots:
And “social justice” is the stubborn application of unworkable solutions to imaginary problems.
Also related, David Brooks’ column “The Fertility Implosion” at the New York Times today articulates the theme of Spengler’s How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) and reveals social justice in action:
When you look at pictures from the Arab spring, you see these gigantic crowds of young men, and it confirms the impression that the Muslim Middle East has a gigantic youth bulge — hundreds of millions of young people with little to do. But that view is becoming obsolete. As Nicholas Eberstadt and Apoorva Shah of the American Enterprise Institute point out, over the past three decades, the Arab world has undergone a little noticed demographic implosion. Arab adults are having many fewer kids.
The more a people focuses on creating heaven on earth the less they work to escape the hell of their own nature.
I didn’t think it was possible, but this woman seems ever dimmer and dimmer.
“And imagine the financial burden of unplanned pregnancy and raising a child.”
Imagine practicing some self control.
“Arab adults are having many fewer kids.” And, how is this a bad thing?
I think that we may be looking at the whole contraception thing from the wrong angle. Look at it this way, it’s an established fact that conservatives have larger families, and the more Flukes that are on contraception, the fewer little Flukes there are. I’d call that a net positive.
I’m trying to figure out which category of contraception user Fluke fits into.
I’m still trying to figure out why any of those categories require other people to pay for it against their will (there are victims’ funds and semi-voluntary groups like Planned Parenthood for the rape victims…and if rape is a recurring expense for some women, wouldn’t they be better served by focusing on that rather than Plan B?).
“The more a people focuses on creating heaven on earth the less they work to escape the hell of their own nature.”
Well said. The fallen nature of man cannot be “fixed” and the old satanic covering of false sanctity is being removed also. The only answer is a new creature born of the Spirit.
These are dark days for the “old man”.
Well done, Mr. Swindle.
If Ms. Fluke wrote that mishmash of code words and emotional hot buttons (serial rape victims! women with polycystic ovarian syndrome! new moms, yet! Why on earth did she leave out “11-year-old girls whose uncles are molesting them”? Must have slipped her fevered mind) she’s wasting her time at law school. She should take the rest of the year off and move into the family quarters at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and become a tutor to Sasha and Malia. How else are they going to follow in their parents’ malevolent footsteps?
I’ve rarely seen such a piling-on of faux “problems” that only the federal government can “solve” in such a short space.
And, BTW, what is CNN doing giving this persistently pernicious polemicist a platform in the first place? It looks from here as if even the NY Times and the Washington Post rejected her effort, and so, like any op-ed page wannabe, she slithered down the leftist media food chain until she found a bottom-dwelling pond scum low enough to bite at her bait.
Just when you thought that no one could descend any lower than Gloria Allred (http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/03/09/gloria-allred-wants-rush-arrested/) a Sandra Fluke comes along to usher in a new generation of ludicrous, publicity-seeking leftist women with a smattering of legal education.
Remember the movie with Jamie Lee Curtis, A FISH CALLED WANDA? What we have before us is a flake named Fluke.
If only her 15 minutes of fame would end! But she has too many leftist media enablers that won’t just let her go back to law school where she can bother only her classmates and professors. No! We must all be treated to her daily tripe.
Is it too much to hope that she’ll have to disappear for a while to study for finals?
New!
Comfort Grip!
KNEE-SPRIN!
Asprin between your knees! It works!
It’s adjustable! It’s reusable!
It promote self-control.
Sorry but who was trying to silence her? What’s she been on TV a million times since then? Listening to her babble about victimization is a sure winner.
“social justice” arguments (and a “twist” on CRT) are a shill for eviscerating religion (and everything democratic) in America.
The Catholic Church hierarchy, embracing this mantra, sold it’s soul to the Devil. What Catholic(s) parishioners didn’t realize (and their Church Officials) was “social justice” (and CRT)are marxist/leninist “code words” for communist/socialism.
Case in Point: on 3/09/2012, in Brazil, a national coalition of Lesbians successfully petitioned, filed and won a court ordered removal of ALL, EVERY single icon, statue, drawing, image, religious representation on display, hanging on a wall, visible (on public display) to the public on any building anywhere in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. This is “social justice.”
Once the four tenets to democracy are removed, i.e., 1)religion, 2)education, 3)governance, and 4) financial (capitalist systems), those advocating “social justice” are free to implement a top down, command economy designed for and operated by, We The Elite People of culture of corruption (in this case, Brasilia)…Cuba’s successful story, Hugo Chavez following this example.
Same goes for the Fluke dog-and-pony show in the USA. Always be aware of the “Right Hand, Left Hand Rule.” Pay close attention to “code words” from We The Elite People of culture of corruption in Washington DC. US Constitution is the only Truth and Guiding Light for America. God Bless America. Amen.
“And imagine the financial burden of unplanned pregnancy and raising a child.”
Free band-aids and antibiotic ointment for all: “Imagine the financial burden of an infection that becomes gangrenous.”
Free toothpaste for all: “Imagine the financial burden of pulling decayed teeth.”
Free soap for all: “Imagine the financial burden of social ostracism.”