As highlighted by today’s New York Times Magazine cover story, the “Right to Life” movement has metastasized into a “Right to Control Your Life” crusade, as Christian fundamentalists have now essentially embraced the Vatican position against all contraception. At the forefront of this battle is the emergency contraception or “morning-after pill”:

Some pharmacists

Are now refusing to fill

Morning-After prescriptions

And other birth-control pills

So when the Rx symbol gives way to a Cross

The pharmacist is — an Evangelical Underboss

Now where will this path of righteousness lead?

Denying painkillers to Rush and Minelli?

And sweeping the shelves completely clear

Of condoms and KY Jelly?

But since these Drugstore “Godians” are full of shit

And bloated with their own holy status

Perhaps the only way

To cure them for good

Is with the Dreaded Apparatus

But even if they win this war

These Christians won’t sleeping dogs lie

They want the “Beginning of Life” defined

As the gleam in a horny guy’s eye

[reprinted from One State Two State Red State Blue State]

And between the official Vatican position on condoms, and the campaign to ban sex toys, it’s only a matter of time before the only individuals having sex will be …

I know a young man

Who went to a hooker

But not to get “released”

But to CONFESS to the girl

That he lost his virginity

To his local parish priest

BLOGWORTHIES:

Tristero at Hullabaloo also addresses the War on Birth Control.

One Good Move provides us with the link to the complete New York Times Magazine story on Contra-Contraception.

Dave Johnson at Seeing the Forest on Shutting Down the Right’s Funding.

Progressive Daily Beacon on Hayden — just another Bush hand-maiden.