Sandra Fluke Now Has a Human Right to Taxpayer-Financed Birth Control
Every so often, I share breakthrough stories about advances in “human rights” around the world.
- In France, it is against the law to say your husband is under-endowed or that your wife is fat.
- Across Europe, a satellite dish is now a human right.
- In Finland, broadband access is a basic right.
- There’s now an entitlement for free soccer broadcasts in Europe.
- In Italy, you have the right to…um…your testicles.
Now, in honor of Sandra Fluke, the United Nations has decided that contraception is a human right. Not just a human right, a universal human right. The New York Times reports on this big news.
The United Nations says access to contraception is a universal human right that could dramatically improve the lives of women and children in poor countries.
So what’s the big deal? Surely people should have the right to buy a condom.
Paid for with your tax dollars?
Yes, but we’re talking about the United Nations, so you won’t be surprised to learn that there shouldn’t be any “financial barriers” to birth control, which means people have the right to have other people pay for their fun and games.
Daniel J. Mitchell
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And I guess you will be happy to fork over your money to pay for the contraception devices for the rest of the world's women, because you know that the UN is only going to ask the US to pay for this.
Feel free to start saving your pennies for this tax on your income, which when a person is taxed enough makes him an indentured servant and there will be no way out of this servitude