Posted by
Lucas J. Boy on Friday, July 17, 2009 11:54:03 AM
For decades now we’ve been listening to feminists caterwauling, ominously warning, “Keep your hands off; it’s my body”! But where’s their angst and hand-wringing over ObamaCare as the Obama regime attempts to nationalize our very bodies? They have conniptions over the prospect of lawmakers limiting their unlimited access to abortion but seem oblivious to the very real prospect of some anonymous bureaucrat determining what’s best—what’s “cost effective” —for their general welfare in terms of overall health care. Do they really believe that some remote cog in a bloated, inefficient government apparatus can better prognosticate their health concerns and determine curative strategies better than they can themselves? That some government official is more qualified to prescribe health care measures than their own doctor? I guess they’re satisfied that the health care legislation now being crafted would promote tax payer-funded abortion, the only issue that really matters. (Besides, aborting a “preemie” is much more “cost effective” than applying the medical technology to bring the baby to term.)
ObamaCare, with its insidious ant-life undertones, is not about health. No more than Cap & Trade is about saving the environment. Both these bold and dubious initiatives are about centralizing power at the expense of our individual freedoms. Crippling the private sector is a desired “good” in the fever-pitched march toward the Left’s utopian dream of creating Heaven on Earth. Rahm Emmanuel and Barack Obama have glimpsed The Promised Land and really think they can pull it off—even though no other society in human history has been able to do so. (On the other hand, Obama is The One, after all.)
The feminists are willing to suspend their rant over the sovereignty of their precious bodies in order to fall into lock-step with their jive-talkin’ Dear Leader and His vision for the future (as long as abortion rights are safeguarded—not much to worry about there with Obama occupying the Oval Office). This is not the first time feminism’s rank hypocrisy has been on bold display. When serial rapist Bill Clinton was exploiting the power of high office, taking advantage of an intern about the same age as Chelsea, the silence from the feminist quarter was deafening. Any queasiness on the part of liberated women was trumped by the fact Slick Willy was an unabashed champion of abortion, the Holy Grail and raison d'être of the movement.
All this raises an interesting philosophical question: who owns your body? Most Americans, I suspect, hold the notion that they own their own bodies. Certainly the Libertarians would argue so. This is in keeping with the spirit of American individualism and is anathema to collectivist sensibilities. Christians have a different—and valid—take on the issue: they believe that it is God Almighty who owns our bodies. We are created for God’s pleasure, not necessarily our own. But, regardless, I think it’s safe to say most Americans would agree that the government decidedly does not own their bodies. As ObamaCare looms, let’s hope so.