Democrats Aren't Protecting Women's Rights; They're Coming for Religious Convictions

You may have heard hysteria about House Republicans voting against a birth control bill. If you live in a sane state of mind, you may be asking why such a bill is necessary. There isn’t an effort to rid the country of birth control. Many pro-life Americans very much encourage it. After all, you can’t kill who you never procreate. There are some religious people who find birth control sinful, but that doesn’t mean there’s a push to make it illegal.

There isn’t a lack of access to birth control. Contraceptives are cheap and easily accessible. You literally don’t have to do anything to receive the most effective form of birth control (abstinence). So, why this bill and why now?

Bill H.R.8373 says its purpose is: “To protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.”

This seems like a mostly performative bill, meant to produce hysteria and inflame the “war on women” that Democrats introduced in 2012 against Mitt Romney, during his presidential run. Senator Romney may be the “Republican with integrity” to the left today, but when he dared to run against President Barrack Obama, they spun golden narratives out of excrements. Wanting to defund Planned Parenthood became, “Romney wants to get rid of birth control.”

But I’m afraid the bill is a lot more devious than that. It targets your sincerely held beliefs.

The bill states under its findings: “Providers’ refusals to offer contraceptives and information related to contraception based on their own personal beliefs impede patients from obtaining their preferred method, with laws in 12 States as of the date of introduction of this Act specifically.”

Bill H.R.8373 supersedes state laws and specifically notes that it trumps the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. Another birth control bill introduced by the 117th Congress (H.R.6005) also supersedes religious liberty, and so did the “codify Roe bill.” The Women’s Health Protection Act was far more extreme than Roe v Wade, that would have overridden hundreds of state laws, including waiting periods, parental consent, and notification requirements.

Though access to birth control is important to many Americans, health care is not an inalienable right. It’s a commodity. You are not entitled to someone else’s labor. Freedom of religion is recognized by the first amendment, so the federal government shouldn’t compel anyone to violate their beliefs on the job, especially if their employers are respectful enough to grant an exception.

Democrats keep insisting that beliefs shouldn’t be forced on others, but their hostile secular worldview is still a belief. Why should they be able to infringe upon the constitutionally protected rights of Americans?

In H.R.8373, contraception “means an action taken to prevent pregnancy, including the use of contraceptives or fertility-awareness based methods, and sterilization procedures.”

Plan B has caused controversy because it can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting. Some Americans who consider themselves to be pro-life feel that it’s fine. Others say conception is when life begins, and that a fertilized egg is on its way to being a fully formed baby, given time. Plan B was one of the contraceptives Hobby Lobby didn’t want to provide in their insurance. In 2014, the company sued and won at the Supreme Court, scoring a crucial victory over the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

And preventing pregnancy is one thing. Should medical professionals be compelled to participate in sterilization if they do not want to?

The Democrats have been coming for religious protections hard since President Joe Biden came into office. Biden himself said he would want to get rid of religious protections that the Little Sisters of the Poor had to fight for in court. As a matter of fact, his Secretary of Health and Humans Services, Xavier Becerra, once sued the nuns and the Trump administration.

When it comes to birth control, Democrats don’t have a goal of protecting women. They have an endgame of destroying religious convictions.