Kinda Kinky.

"But please, keep trying to convince us that judgment of someone else's sex life is NOT the issue."

Take away the $$$ concerns, and see who cares to peer into Ms. Fluke's bedroom, or condemn her personal practices.

Women who pretend it's a bedroom issue, and not a pocketbook issue, are damaging the power of Choice. No good will come of this. Take care not to sell out the rights of all women, Ms. Fluke, for a handful of "free" magic pills...

Surely a Georgetown woman can figure out how to finance her monthly healthcare needs that truly aren't that expensive if you shop generic. What's next? Mandating insurance plans pay for basic monthly medical needs like sanitary napkins and tampons? So that young women mandated to pay "insurance" premiums get ... something back for their dollars?

It's silly, and the more we mandate, the more power we give to others to criticize our private healthcare choices. Keep out of others' pocketbooks, and they'll continue to keep out of your bedrooms. But make them pay for your choices, with no effective opt out, and you'll hear criticisms...

What's hard to figure out about that? Like Mitt said, contraception is still on the shelves, still accessible to all, men and women. Not threatened.

Just the entitlement mentality that well-off young women like Ms. Fluke are advocating for. Expect pushback from those who pay out-of-pocket for their own choices and medical needs, who expect Ms. Fluke to pay her own way too...

EQUAL, and all that...

Surely I'm not the only one who sees newfound media celebrity Sandra Fluke's face and thinks ... Meg Tilly. Or Jennifer Tilly. Or the empty-headed blankface character once played in a movie, was it that Boomer one -- The Big Chill?

Regardless, let me weigh in on the latest media "controversy" that has taken our attention away from the crumbling world economy, and the rush to war in Iran.

Should mandatory insurance plans cover basic medical needs? Is there any opt out -- for women, or men, who are celibate/ gay/ infertile/ or generally welcoming of children, so that they don't need this monthly "benefit" covered?

What ever happened to Choice?

Don't these women, and men, see that once you start asking other people to pay for your Choices, particularly if they conflict religiously -- mandate basic costs in the insurance pool, with mandated services covered by everybody's premium dollars -- then of course people will be peering into your bedroom, and criticizing how your preferences on their mandatorily-collected-and-redistributed dimes?

Selling out true Choice,
for a handful of magical pills?

Maybe the white, educated, soon-to-be wealthy women like Ms. Fluke feel entitled, and maybe the media once again will pander to fear, and choose to cover "lifestyle" issues over the meat-and-potatoes reasons people will vote:

It's about the entitlements, stupid.
The pocketbook issues, not the bedroom issues.

If you want Choice, and surely all women do, men too, even those who would not choose to purchase what you do, women must learn to accept responsibility and step up and pay for those Choices.

Birth control pills are not bank breakers. Their monthly cost is about that of a cable bill, I'm told. If you can't afford that, perhaps you can't afford to deal with the costs if the birth control fails either.

But society currently bails out those Choices as well.

Simply put, whether Limbaugh is being listened to, in his ongoing nastiness, isn't the point. Really, contraceptive freedom is no more endangered today than before the mandate was surreptitiously passed, and promises that conflict with other people's personal Choices were promised.

If Catholics like Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, and Sotomayor are listening, perhaps they too see the easy way out of the inevitable personal criticisms that will come, once too many Americans decide they liked it the old way: no mandate, but Choice to choose which insurance policies, if any, best suits their own private and personal medical needs.

By then,
I suspect Ms. Fluke will be in a financial position to better budget her monthly needs from her private paycheck, and she too will be able to afford the same sexual freedoms of women, and men, in past days have been able to Choose, or not to choose.

In fact, some say Freedom, true freedom that you're choosing and financing yourself, is the ultimate orgasm. We should all be free to find out for ourselves, no?

Please take care that your "choices" don't endanger mine is all.