If you want to know the difference between a free country and a collectivist, sovietized society, where the State directs, manipulates and socially engineers the life of the individual, then one has only to walk into a drugstore in Canada and then into one in the United States. In any Canadian drugstore, any woman can purchase Plan B, the “morning after pill”, without prescription or harassment, as is her right. In the United States, this is not the case. There, the State rules over the most private domain of the individual. As in Communist China, Americans suffer a government which considers their bodies the property of the State. Their most intimate personal choices do not belong to them, but to an all-powerful collectivism, to the Leviathan. It makes me profoundly grateful that I live in a significantly freer, more individualist society, where, as one Canadian Prime Minister once proclaimed, “The State has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.”
There are many things of which I disapprove in my own country, and Lord knows there are plenty of stupid things that happen here. But, at least we are not reduced to such pathetic serfdom that we surrender our sexual organs to the tyranny of squalid bureaucrats and a Supreme Soviet on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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