Arizona has passed some extreme right-wing laws before, but this one takes the cake, I think. Along with other bills around the country that seek to strip a woman's right to decide what happens to her own body, now the Arizona state legislature is proposing a doozy of a law that aims to strip women of their right to contraception. Included in this law is the right of your employer to demand that you prove to them you have to take birth control pills for medical conditions and not to prevent pregnancy; to deny birth control coverage in your health care plan; and to fire you if you take birth control if said employer doesn't want you to.
I'm not kidding.
See the article here from The Huffington Post.
Rick Santorum started this bullshit, and yet somehow the man is actually in the running to get the Republican presidential nomination. Why on earth any woman is actually voting for him is a puzzle to me. Makes one wish Romney were a better candidate! Not saying I like the guy or would ever vote for him, but he's the least worst of the four remaining contenders.
It's time for the women of Arizona to stand up against this kind of ridiculous government overreach and vote the bastards who dreamed this up out of office. I'm just very proud to say that I do NOT live in Arizona, and if I did I would move posthaste!
Whatever happened to the righties who want "government out of their lives"? Seems to me they want government to stick their noses into every woman's bedroom. This kind of legislation is just sickening.
Guys, you might want to perk your ears up as well. There will be a whole lot less sex going on in this country if women are denied birth control pills. Just sayin'.
