Standard Mischief

I’ve been over this before, but every time this comes back up, it still manages to floor me.

It goes like this. The cornerstone of Roe v. Wade, a landmark Supreme Court case on the right for a woman to have an abortion, is privacy. Medical privacy. As in “the government may not stick their nose in a woman’s medical care because to do so would invade their privacy” type of privacy.

Furthermore, I also happen to note that the most “vocal”|”fringe”|”progressive”|”leading edge” of the feminist bunch almost universally support government run “universal”|”single payer”|”socialized”|”ObamaCare” type healthcare. One of the promises of the plan they are trying to promote is that there will be a “cost savings” by letting the nanny state safeguard your own medical records in some kind of digital format.

If you can’t see the elephant yet, I’ll spell it out for you. If you think of your medical records as private, how in Lilith’s name is it logical and prudent to hand over safekeeping to the state?

I mean this is the government that has been rightly condemned for misusing the Census data to round up the Japanese and put them into internment camps. The same government that has been doing all that warrantless wiretapping. The same government that has been torturing and detaining non-POWs while ignoring Habeas corpus.

I’ve always asked this question every single progressive pro-choice feminist I run across who speaks fondly and approving of state-run, taxpayer supported healthcare schemes. So far I’ve gotten zero responses. I’ve been left to guess the lack of response is some kind of self-defense mechanism; a cognitive shut-down to avoid a warp core breach.