Have you heard?
Not my boss' business... is the new Planned Parenthood slogan aimed at those who oppose the HHS Mandate. I hadn't heard until I read this takedown of it and much more by Marc Barnes, aka Bad Catholic:
Planned Parenthood use the term “women” to demarcate a group they support, trust, and represent. Since not all women want to be supported, trusted or represented by Planned Parenthood, we must charitably assume that the organization is referring to an idea of women, and not to that actual, wonderful population – les personnes de sexe féminin. As such, Planned Parenthood are responsible for defining the boundaries of their idea, i.e. when they say “women want _____” they implicitly exclude
women who “don’t want _____” from their category of “women.” Our task is to answer the question: “How is Planned Parenthood’s category of “women” currently being defined?”
Consider the current debates regarding the question of whether employers ethically opposed to acts of (non-medical) contraception ought to be required by the federal government to pay for their employees’ contraceptive devices via a health insurance plan. To convince the public that employers indeed ought to, Planned Parenthood have coined the slogan “Not my boss’ business” and encouraged women to subsume their thought under it.
The conceptual transubstantiation required to get the phrase “Not my boss’ business” out of the demand that my “boss” pay for my contraceptive devices makes me tickle. It is akin to saying “Because you have nothing to do with my sex life, provide for the contraceptive devices that make up a crucial part of my sex life,” or “Because it is not your business if I have an IUD, pay for my IUD.” It occasions such sublime despair over our human capacity to make any damn sense that I find myself wishing Planned Parenthood would rise victorious — if only that they could move on to a better slogan. Add “provide contraception” to the list of fundamental duties an employer has to employees, fine — just don’t do it on the basis that your employer has nothing to do with contraception. By the actions of the HHS Mandate we are obviously, blindinglyobviously giving our bosses a direct relation to our sex lives, an economic interest previously non-existent, and a business in our bedroom I promise will get creepy.
But it makes sense in its own way. To give it crowd-appeal, to make it Facebook-worthy, to craft a narrative in which ideological propositions achieve their highest level of you’d-have-to-be-an-inhuman-ball-of-mysogonistic-fire-hate-to-diasagee-with-this, the debate — which, in the courts, is being held over the complex issue of religious freedom — needs to be reduced to something of godlike simplicity: “Women need birth control and their bosses are denying them it.”
women who “don’t want _____” from their category of “women.” Our task is to answer the question: “How is Planned Parenthood’s category of “women” currently being defined?” Read the rest, he's barely getting warmed up and this is but a piece of the much larger puzzle he's putting together.
Yesterday I put something up detailing the necessity of the pro-abortion crowd to make a lie more presentable. This is really a continuation of that.
The pretzel like thinking of the left on abortion requires a great deal of creative twisting to make it credible.
I'd rather stick with this simple truth. Babies in the womb are human and should be protected.
Period.
Those who oppose that simplicity are severely deceived.
Carry on.
