{"id":472,"date":"2006-08-25T03:24:32","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T03:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=472"},"modified":"2018-08-22T00:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T04:08:20","slug":"friday-august-25-2006-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Plan B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9502\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9502\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/06-08-25-BLOG-Plan-B.jpg\" alt=\"06-08-25 BLOG Plan B\" width=\"227\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/06-08-25-BLOG-Plan-B.jpg 344w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/06-08-25-BLOG-Plan-B-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\"><\/a>If you want to know the dif\u00adfer\u00adence between a free coun\u00adtry and a col\u00adlec\u00adtivist, sovi\u00adetized soci\u00adety, where the State directs, manip\u00adu\u00adlates and social\u00adly engi\u00adneers the life of the indi\u00advid\u00adual, then one has only to walk into a drug\u00adstore in Cana\u00adda and then into one in the Unit\u00aded States.&nbsp;In any Cana\u00addi\u00adan drug\u00adstore, any woman can pur\u00adchase Plan B, the \u201cmorn\u00ading after pill\u201d, with\u00adout pre\u00adscrip\u00adtion or harass\u00adment, as is her right.&nbsp;In the Unit\u00aded States, this is not the case.&nbsp;There, the State rules over the most pri\u00advate domain of the indi\u00advid\u00adual.&nbsp;As in Com\u00admu\u00adnist Chi\u00adna, Amer\u00adi\u00adcans suf\u00adfer a gov\u00adern\u00adment which con\u00adsid\u00aders their bod\u00adies the prop\u00ader\u00adty of the State. Their most inti\u00admate per\u00adson\u00adal choic\u00ades do not belong to them, but to an all-pow\u00ader\u00adful col\u00adlec\u00adtivism, to the Leviathan.&nbsp;It makes me pro\u00adfound\u00adly grate\u00adful that I live in a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly freer, more indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adal\u00adist soci\u00adety, where, as one Cana\u00addi\u00adan Prime Min\u00adis\u00adter once pro\u00adclaimed, \u201cThe State has no place in the bed\u00adrooms of the nation.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are many things of which I dis\u00adap\u00adprove in my own coun\u00adtry, and Lord knows there are plen\u00adty of stu\u00adpid things that hap\u00adpen here.&nbsp;But, at least we are not reduced to such pathet\u00adic serf\u00addom that we sur\u00adren\u00adder our sex\u00adu\u00adal organs to the tyran\u00adny of squalid bureau\u00adcrats and a Supreme Sovi\u00adet on Penn\u00adsyl\u00adva\u00adnia Avenue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know the dif\u00adfer\u00adence between a free coun\u00adtry and a col\u00adlec\u00adtivist, sovi\u00adetized soci\u00adety, where the State directs, manip\u00adu\u00adlates and social\u00adly engi\u00adneers the life of the indi\u00advid\u00adual, then one has only to walk into a drug\u00adstore in Canada&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=472\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-au-blog-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9503,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/9503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}