There is an aspect that I have yet to hear discussed in the contraception debate. It is the financial aspect. Specifically, the flow of the money.
We should not forget that there is a contraception industry. Like all industries today, they have powerful lobbyists. As a result, when insurance companies are required to provide contraception to their customers, the industry benefits.
Each time a birth control pill is sold through government mandate, some kleptocrat on a yacht pours himself another glass of champagne. Then, when the poor women gets cervix cancer, he pulls out the caviar.
A classic win-win situation.
On the other hand, if people are required to take care of their own contraception needs, they might choose not to turn to the contraception industry. They might choose, instead, to take care of their birth control in a natural, self-sufficient way. After all, humans have been planning their families for the last 50,000 years without the help of modern medicine.
When a women chooses to follow, for instance, her natural cycle, no one makes money, wealth is not accumulated, power is not concentrated.
Most importantly, control is diffused. And that's what this contraception debate is ultimately about; control.
The empire seeks, by definition, to expand its control, always. Hence the National Defense Authorization Act.
The Catholic Church, an enormously influential, but decidedly non-fascist, institution, exists largely outside of the Federal Government's control.
This move was intended to correct that.
