{"id":9022,"date":"2014-06-30T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-06-30T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:31:08","slug":"liberals_who_see_pregnant_women_as_victims_of_a_disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/06\/30\/liberals_who_see_pregnant_women_as_victims_of_a_disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Who See Pregnant Women as Victims of a Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Midland, Michigan. Greg, great to have you, sir. Do you still have your water turned on or is that just Detroit<\/a> that\u2019s had half of their water turned off?<\/p>\n

CALLER: My water\u2019s working great.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great. So the UN is not in town trying to alleviate the lack of water where you go. That\u2019s good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no. We have plenty of lakes in Michigan so we\u2019re all good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Cool.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All good. Well, a first-time caller so I really appreciate you taking my comment. This is in regard to contraception<\/a>. You know, contraception is a personal choice. And when there are things that go on inside my body that I can\u2019t control, health care, yeah, insurance should cover that. But when you start crossing that line of personal choice, you\u2019re opening up a whole new door to a whole new list of things that could be added to that. For example, my gym membership.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait just a second. Wait just a minute, though. Did I hear you right, you said contraception is a personal choice?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a personal choice.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. That\u2019s where you\u2019re off the path.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Contraception is not a personal choice. It\u2019s a right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah? Yeah. Well, some might think that, all right?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a personal choice. Well, it\u2019s my right to go to the gym. Should they start paying for my right to go to the gym? It\u2019s my right to sit in front of the TV, which now studies will show that affects your health and your mental state. So should they start paying for my cable bill? I know a young woman that used to cut herself. That was a personal choice. It\u2019s her right, it\u2019s her body, right? Should they start covering those costs as well? Once you cross that line, Rush, it just opens up a whole new list to dive into.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bingo. Once there is no personal responsibility, once everything you do is actually something that happens to you, then you become a victim. And when you become a victim, then you are victimized by somebody. And when you are victimized by somebody it\u2019s largely going to be a conservative or a Republican, in which case you can then petition the government to fix it. <\/p>\n

So, in your example, contraception, that\u2019s not a choice. That\u2019s a right. When you got pregnant you were victimized by nature. You may not have even intended it. It doesn\u2019t matter that you took the steps necessary to cause it, because you don\u2019t have that kind of power, not in the way the left looks at the world. You\u2019re a victim of something. Other examples, let me tell you how those things will manifest. You talk about your gym membership. Under Obamacare it is entirely possible because they\u2019re in charge of who gets what kind of medical care and how much treatment and how much money is going to be spent on each case. <\/p>\n

They are going to be able to say someday if they want to at some stage in life, if you get sick, and if some belief exists that if you had gone to the gym earlier, if you had exercised, you wouldn\u2019t have been sick. So they\u2019re not gonna cover you for previous decisions that you\u2019ve made. And because of your age it just doesn\u2019t make sense to invest in whatever it would take to cure you. It would be better spent on younger, more potentially productive people. Someday they may be able to require you to do a certain amount of exercise. They may be able to limit the number of days or hours you can watch TV if you are going to get health care. This is the kind of sweeping control over people\u2019s lives that Obamacare is gonna end up providing to government. <\/p>\n

Now, I know the people that don\u2019t want to hear about politics, “That\u2019s never gonna happen. Come on, Rush, that\u2019s so extreme, it would never.” That\u2019s exactly what kind of power they seek. It\u2019s the old death panel argument. So whereas you\u2019re looking at this as, “Well, shouldn\u2019t they? I mean, if we\u2019re gonna cover a woman\u2019s contraception, why shouldn\u2019t they cover my cable bill,” and then this kind of thing, \u2019cause it\u2019s making you sick, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you go to the gym, you\u2019re trying to make yourself better. If everything is designed in some way, shape, manner, or form to either gonna make you sicker or cure your sickness or make you healthier, shouldn\u2019t they pay for it, given you\u2019re not responsible for anything? And that\u2019s what your thinking is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. And I\u2019m totally against all that. I think that health care should be provided for those that — I can\u2019t control what\u2019s going on inside my body, therefore —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. No, no. Wait a minute. With everything known today, quote, unquote, about what causes cancer, you might be able to prevent it, say, by not eating certain things. I mean, look at the cockamamie beliefs every day we are treated to about what causes this sickness or that sickness. You get the point. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi. Now, listen, folks. The last caller\u2019s point, I kind of got short-changed there in my summation by having to go to the obscene profit break, but his point was, “Hey, I don\u2019t control what goes on in my body.” Meaning if he gets sick, he didn\u2019t do anything to cause it. But yet a woman who gets pregnant took action to make it happen, whether she intended it or not, she still did. But his point was, let\u2019s say I come down with — take your pick. He comes down with Crohn\u2019s disease. “I didn\u2019t do anything to cause it.” Well, not so fast. Not so fast. If you end up with socialized medicine, single payer with the government in charge of every dime that\u2019s spent, you\u2019re going to have a whole bunch, \u2019cause we don\u2019t have the money, folks. <\/p>\n

First and foremost, we don\u2019t have the money. We\u2019re $17 trillion in debt and there\u2019s no amount of money too small in order to get something like this passed. But then once that happens and it\u2019s fully implemented then there\u2019s gonna be all kinds of cost consciousness. There\u2019s going to be all kinds of people limiting the amount of money you spend. It\u2019s the nature of things. So you might think you did nothing that resulted in you getting Crohn\u2019s disease, but what if they can provide some scientific research that says that if you got up at ten o\u2019clock in the morning on Tuesday while camping out and decided to drink water from a lake that was not government approved and had some sort of thing in there, even though you didn\u2019t know it, you still gave yourself Crohn\u2019s disease, then you may not be entitled to health care because he didn\u2019t exhibit proper personal responsibility.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t think something like this is gonna be part of it, you need to readjust your thinking. It\u2019s no different than the death panel existence. There\u2019s no question it exists, and Obama even alluded to it with that daughter on ABC\u2019s prime time special asking about her mother getting a pacemaker. She\u2019s too old. We\u2019ll give her a pain pill and finish her days that way. <\/p>\n