The decades long Republican war on abortion—and now contraception—is really a war on ladies sexytime.
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Charles Pierce looks askance at Ross Douthat.
Douthat:
But even amid downturns and deficits, the culture wars are still inevitably significant, for the very simple reason that there’s no common ground on which to call a truce.
Pierce:
(Yes, because one side of the culture wars, which happens to be the side on which Douthat is a troubled young top kick himself, has no intention of calling a "truce" until it has absolutely everything it wants, which includes the right to tell women what to do with their lady parts because that's what Jesus entitles that side of the culture wars to do. That's why we're suddenly arguing in our politics about contraception, as though the Church's record on that issue hasn't been laughable since 1965. Only one side of the culture wars, it should be noted, has a body count.)
Douthat:
Start with the contraception mandate. To many observers, myself included, a mandate that required insurers to cover reproductive interventions while exempting religious employers seemed like the obvious way for a liberal White House to advance its social agenda while preserving social peace.
Pierce:
(Big of you, lad. Of course, you're not a Dominican Episcopalian making $16,000 a year cleaning bedpans in a Catholic hospital who can't afford the $600 a month co-pay for the birth control she needs to control her heavy bleeding and yet who, through no fault of her own, finds that she has to live with the theological horse-pucky of Humanae Vitae as enshrined as an "exemption" in American secular law. Here's the truce: Bishops can decide to act on their principles, or keep the tax breaks.)
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