Protecting my rights and forcing me to do something are two different things.

Hey, I agree with this part! I just don't think it's actually an argument so much as a non sequitor.

BC becomes a men's issue when you make them use a condom because you're not on the Pill, and they get super-cranky about it. Or at least that's my impression.

What I want to quote, because it's so comprehensive:

: "If it's unconstitutional, then why did Republicans come up with the idea for an individual mandate back in the early '90s? Why did Republicans champion the idea from the '90s until '08? Why did Romney institute the same plan in Massachusetts? Why Republican voters choose Romney as their presidential candidate? Why didn't Republicans pass their own healthcare reform during the W Bush administration when they controlled both chambers of Congress and the Supreme Court."

Women's issues don't count: this is a question of FREEEEDOM!!!

Yes. Uteruses (uteri?) cannot be free, and neither can anyone who has one.

What I want to quote, because it's so comprehensive:

Cool.

Here it is with two corrections:

"If it's unconstitutional, then why did Republicans come up with the idea for an individual mandate back in the early '90s? Why did Republicans champion the idea from the '90s until '08? Why did Romney institute the same plan in Massachusetts? Why did Republican voters choose Romney as their presidential candidate? Why didn't Republicans pass their own healthcare reform during the W Bush administration when they controlled both chambers of Congress and the Supreme Court?"

Back at tommy's post re A letter to Sullivan, and Scalia referring to Ginsberg's dissent . . . she did dissent from the CJ's opinion w/r/t the commerce clause so this is not a mystery or a conspiracy (which I now see popping up - someone "got to" the CJ).

So nip that shit in the bud when it appears in your FB feed...

Stormtrooper in the Rain tattoo.

I totally wasn't valedictorian because I slacked. Specifically, the boy I had a years-long unrequited crush on was in my fluid power class, but then, woes, not on my team. And my team wouldn't let me bully them into doing everything my way. So I basically spent the whole class trailing along after the other group. And then when the Boy of Dreams checked in with me to see if I needed help on a bit, I failed to pretend I was having trouble and turned him down. So hubris and Cupid conspired to give me my Worst Grade Ever and thus not the valedictorianship. But seeing as how I skipped into the senior class, displacing everyone below me, it was probably best as it was.

Everytime this comes up I think about my cousin Jason. He did what he loved and was passionate about - massage therapist, except he was a contract employer (standard for what he was doing) and didn't get health care through his employer.

He bought land with a small trailer and his dream was to build a house there. He had 10 acres on property he loved.

He tried to get health insurance but he had pre existing conditions. And then, I think, he found some kind of insurance but he couldn't afford it.

So he went without. He only went to the doctor for emergencies and such like. He did know his cholesterol was high, but he couldn't afford the medication so he tried to just handle it with diet and exercise.

He had a heart attack and died at age 34. He had stomach pains for a few weeks (we found this out later talking to some of his friends) and the night he died he was feeling bad. He went to his best friends' (a couple) house feeling really bad and he died. Right there in their bedroom.

He was 34. And all I can think is - if he had insurance would he be alive?

Maybe he wouldn't have gone to the doctor and just blown off the stomach pains.

But I don't know. But he didn't go to the doctor and get tests because he couldn't afford it.

What kind of country is this where 34 year olds die of heart attacks and can't afford health care!!! It amkes me so fucking mad when people start talking about how it's choices and make it sound like it's just people who are lazy who don't get health care.

Or that somehow, it's perfectly acceptable that people suffer and DIE because they can't afford medical treatment.

tommmyrot I'm going to steal that for my facebook page too.