Justice Ginsburg: Buying Contraceptives for Others is One of the ‘Obligations That Citizens Have’

August 1, 2014 - By Tatiana Lozano

Providing women with cost-free health-insurance coverage for contraceptives is one of the “obligations” of citizenship, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Wednesday in an interview with Yahoo’s Katie Couric.

“Some people say there’s something troubling about mandating a private company though, to do something that is against their deeply held religious beliefs. What would you say to those people?” Couric asked Ginsburg, one of four dissenting justices in the court’s landmark Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision.

“When you’re part of a society, you can’t separate yourself from the obligations that citizens have,” the justice replied....... “The decision that an employer could refuse to cover contraceptives meant that women would have to take care of that for themselves or the men who cared,” Ginsburg replied. “Contraceptive protection is something that every woman must have access to control her own destiny,” she added........To Read More.....

My Take – You just can’t fix stupid.  I keep reading how smart she was in law school, how smart she is now and how Scalia thinks she’s so smart, (which gives me concerns about just how bright he is) but is it possible she’s was just a good student?  I’ve seen a great many “really” good students who were in reality nothing more “over educated and under smart” dodos. 

Think about this sentence. 

“Contraceptive protection is something that every woman must have access to control her own destiny.”  What does, “control her own destiny”, mean?   Does anyone besides me see the irony in that statement?  She’s supposed to control her “destiny” but isn’t smart enough to buy contraceptives on her own, and apparently too lazy to get a job to provide the money to pay for them, but is still going to irresponsibly have unprotected sex.   And when did it become societies responsibility to help these dummies “control their destiny” -  and we come back to what I consider a foundational question that needs to be answered - whatever in the world does, “control her own destiny”, mean?  

What if she decides to become a welfare queen - is that her “destiny”?  What if she decides to become a drug dealer or a prostitute, is that her "destiny"?  Well, the word “destiny” means - "the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future.  Belief in a hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future; fate". 

 

No wonder Ginsberg chose to use that word.  It’s a connotation to a "mysterious" force, and emotional appeal that can’t properly be defined. 

Let’s try and get this once and for all.  People can only make good or bad decisions based on the best information available, and their so-called “destiny” will be determined by the eventual outcome from those decisions, meaning their “destiny” can be positive by making good decision, or negative by making bad decisions.  Since no one can control the events that impact their lives entirely the importance of making good decisions can’t be overstated.  And not buying contraceptives while having sex is a bad decision unless they want to get pregnant.  Then their destiny will be to have children.  When they made that decision they “controlled” their destiny. 

Whoever said destiny was to be a positive thing?