Palin Will “Fight to the Death” To Stop Birth Control Coverage

[one_voice]

Last night on FOX’s Off the Record with Greta Van Susteren, Sarah Palin weighed in on the contraception controversy and after calling mandatory contraception coverage an “assault on freedom” Palin quoted a guest from an earlier FOX News program saying, “We will fight to the death for our freedom of religion”. She continued her hyperbole by calling the health insurance coverage of contraception an “Un-American act by the President”.

The controversy started early last week when Catholic Cardinals came out strong saying that the provisions in Health Care Reform that required coverage by insurance of contraception would violate their religion if they provided their employees with the choice to use birth control.


The issue quickly made its way into the GOP Primaries, with most of the candidates railing about religious freedom while they ignored the polls that say 61% of Americans support the government mandated coverage, and that 61% of Catholics themselves support it as well.

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http://www.the3halves.com/3-news/196-palin-will-fight-to-the-death-to-stop-birth-control-coverage.html


Would it be wrong for me to say........

[JHB]

1. Yes, but damn if it didn't spring to everyone's mind......

[niyad]

3. that was certainly my first thought

[Kahuna]

27. + 1. nt

[one_voice]

12. Figured I wouldn't...

be the only one..

[Cassandra]

22. Same here

[Glimmer of Hope]

54. I went there too.

[kestrel91316]

2. Freedom of religion includes freedom to prohibit non-members of your religion from

receiving medical care.

Rightie.

[uppityperson]

23. Exactly. Just what I was going to write. eom

[JHB]

39. Freedom of religion includes freedom to use medical coverage to enforce doctrine...

...on both members and non-members. As opposed to, say, leaving the non-members alone and providing spiritual advice to members to not use services that may go against doctrine, thus preserving freedom of religion for individuals rather than for organizations, when there is a potential conflict.

[Johonny]

46. or these people freedom = $

People who may not even be of that faith, but work for an organization loosely related to that religion can't have the same basic insurance coverage as average Americans. By not having coverage they may not be able to afford that health care decision on their own, and thus have less freedom of health care options. That's the new free American Santorum and Palin want for America. A place where your doctor needs to first consult your health care insurance who then has to consult with it's faith based consultant before he can preform a health care procedure for you. If you are rich then you are of course free from the system.

For these people freedom = $. If you don't have $ then you can't have the same freedom the rich will enjoy.

[WI_DEM]

4. Maybe if she had encouraged her daughter to use birth control she wouldn't

have been a teenage mother with a guy she obviously doesn't love or want to spend her life with?

[msanthrope]

13. To be fair, her son also should have been encouraged to use birth control. His shotgun wedding was

no less a debacle.

[Zalatix]

55. Indeed, that whole Bristol Palin debacle totally ignored Levi Johnston's role

in making their baby.

[immoderate]

5. You go Sarah!

Still my prediction for the First Female President!

--imm

[Bladian]

33. Am I missing some sarcasm here?

[immoderate]

43. A good question.

How much are you inferring?

I first predicted that Sarah would be president when she was peaking, and being carried on the shoulders of the tea party. "OMG!" I said, in a rare non-orgasmic invocation of a deity. From then on, and I have maintained this position consistently, it was a matter of sticking to my guns. But it comes down to what I think the electorate is capable of.

And consider the upside for me when my omniscience is discovered!

I never use the "sarcasm" thingy. People should work it out the hard way.

--imm

[appleannie1]

6. I thought it but I won't say it. Bet I am not alone.

[blm]

7. Palin wants everyone to use her preferred form of birth control...her gluteus maximus

No wonder that Catholic Bishops prefer it 9-1 over any other form of contraception.

[marmar]

8. That noise you hear is the sound of irrelevancy

nt

[MNBrewer]

9. Over her dead body?

Seems like there are a lot of people, catholic priests included, who want to die over this.

See "holy sausage fest" http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-02-14/jon-stewarts-send-up-to-the-holy-sausage-fest-freaking-out-over-birth-control/

[laruemtt]

10. who cares what this moronic

attention whore thinks? she's a brain-dead babbling idiot and the media need to quit feeding this particular beast and just make her go away.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. That should help the gene pool.... I kid I kid.... nt

[wryter2000]

19. Too late

It's already reproduced.

[bowens43]

14. what a silly little twit.

she keeps getting dumber and dumber.

[less lee]

15. Palin is dangerous to the unborn

Her voice is so grading that it cause a woman to miscarry. However, on the other hand if a man hears her voice, he loses his urge to have sex. So she is great for birthcontrol.

[madmom]

16. No what's un American is them trying to force feed their religious views on the rest of the country.

(see also..my user name)

[catnhatnh]

17. Your offer is acceptable.... (Men in Black) N/T

[VWolf]

26. "proposal", not "offer" ... but still worth a LOL n/t

[rustydog]

18. We can only hope. Fight to the death? More like quit in two months.

Lady Blah Blah is, at , best, a messed-up punchline in the McCain-Palin Presidential stumble of 2008. You betcha.

[1ProudAtheist]

20. The World Famous "Stupid Sarah"

just wind her up and get ready for a snootful of stupid

[gratuitous]

21. Dear Mrs. Palin

If you don't want to take advantage of the coverage offered, you don't have to. You're also free to not take advantage of the coverage for an annual prostate exam. I'm not going to take advantage of the coverage for an annual pap smear.

Love and kisses,
Your friendly neighborhood
gratuitous

P.S. Quit being such a ninny.

[snooper2]

24. So why isn't she popping them out like a Duggar?

Is Todd really that good with pulling?

Wouldn't that be a form of birth control? LOL

[Googlybear]

25. already there

don't these zealots realize that many churches and religious organizations already actively provide contraceptive services?

it's just more irrelevant saber-rattling from conservatives.

gawd, what a bunch of crybabies.

[joeybee12]

28. She's trying to get our hopes up...nt

[yardwork]

29. I didn't know that Sarah Palin is Catholic. I thought she was Protestant.

I wasn't aware that any mainstream Protestant churches were opposed to contraception.

[MountainLaurel]

58. She's not a mainstream Protestant

She's from one of those crazy-ass churches that hosts witch hunters and the like:

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2008/09/palins_new_pastor_problem.html

[yardwork]

59. Do they have a position on contraception?

[MountainLaurel]

62. My guess

Is that only sluts and women denying their godly duty to be broodmares use birth control.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

30. Notice: Despite sounding like one, Sarah Palin is not a swaggering 14 year old boy.

[bullwinkle428]

31. Well, to the death or to her next reality show, whichever comes first.

[Bandit]

32. Who?

[nykym]

34. ALl I can say Sarah is

be my guest!

[Solly Mack]

35. Palin quits everything.

[Cheap_Trick]

36. Don't tease me, Mooselini nt

[Ganja Ninja]

37. Wow! They're going all kinds of crazy right now over birth control.

Have at it Sarah. You and the other Republican's flap your gums until you're blue in the face. Try going on a hunger strike or light yourself on fire in protest. Give this one your all and see where it gets you. If you seriously believe people in this country want to give up birth control and roll back the clock on the sexual revolution then knock yourself out.

[AsahinaKimi]

38. like she fought to the death

for keeping her job as Governor. I would imagine, when she plays video games with Todd, she quits before the game has really started.

[dixiegrrrrl]

40. In reality, she would only fight to the "half-death"

hope she her next quitter act is Fox news.

[Iggo]

41. To the death, then!

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Have at ye!

[lpbk2713]

42. The grifter couldn't even complete a four year term as governor.

How the hell is anyone supposed to believe she has the endurance to "fight to the death" over anything ?


She cracks me up, no doubt about it.

[Javaman]

44. oh failin quitter, you love to spin a yarn. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

45. Well, If It Comes To That. . .

. . .i won't be unhappy. It would mean she would have to die to keep her promise. Somehow i'm guessing this is another promise she won't keep.
GAC

[ananda]

47. And this coming from a walking advertisement for bc.

nt

[Lucky Luciano]

48. Knock yourself out Sarah Shitforbrains. nt

[fascisthunter]

49. to the death?! Good

drop dead

[justiceischeap]

50. I now find myself wondering if she ever used a contraceptive of any sort

Ever engage in sex while a rubber was being used? Ever take birth control pills? She had to looking at the age difference between her youngest and next youngest (or she and Todd didn't have sex for years).

So her fight to death is just another attempt to become relevant again.

[LadyHawkAZ]

51. She means the death of other women, I presume?

[11 Bravo]

52. We can only hope.

[blue neen]

53. Or, at least until she gets invited to be on "Dancing with the Stars."

Whichever happens first.

[spanone]

56. promises, promises

[Zalatix]

57. A war on women, fought by a woman. It's like life on Planet Bizarro.

I don't get it, what is it that infests the skull of Sarah Palin... it certainly isn't a brain.

[RainDog]

60. Sarah Palin is all about the money

that's pretty clear to see.

oh, and also - any mother who has two children with out-of-wedlock babies - not my idea of an exactly responsible parent.

[Major Hogwash]

61. Did she quit yet?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

I love it when she says hopey changey stuff like this right here.
You betcha'!

I wish she would go on Bill Maher's program.
I'd love to see them exchange barbs.