As I was looking down the list of introduced bills, I saw: “SB 4 — Dispensing abortion devices or drugs or birth control.” I thought to myself, “that’s gotta be Drozda.” Click. Click, sure enough: Senate Bill 4 was introduced by Senator Drozda. It provides that “No person shall be required, as a condition of training, employment, pay, promotion, or privileges, to . . . dispense a birth control device or medication.”
I’m biased because I am in favor of a couple’s ability to determine when (and if) they want to start a family. And, while I’m nothing like a purist on the subject, I tend to be skeptical of the government telling an employer how to run its business. So, when Senator Drozda gets to telling employers such as pharmacists they have to allow their employees to refuse to hand out birth control pills or condoms, let’s just say I get to missing former Senator Johnson, Senator Drozda’s predecessor.
Senator Drozda’s reproductive fetish is also reflected in SB 45 which dictates that a school’s health curriculum must include:
(1) the result of human sperm and egg convergence;
(2) the resulting development of human conception;
(3) the health consequences of early termination of pregnancy;
(4) photographic images portraying each state of uterine fetal development; and
(5) descriptions of human fetal development.
[…] Ms. Neal’s theory that Garton, Borst, and Johnson were ousted because constituents regarded them as legislative deadwood that needed to be cut out in favor of fresher ideas ignores the politics of Walker, Waltz, and Drozda who defeated them. All of them are part of the so-called “Christian” right. (Though most of the social policies coming out of the “Christian” right seem more in line with select bits of the Old Testament than with the Sermon on the Mount.) Whereas the mantra of Goldwater Republicans was “smaller government,” with the current batch it has morphed into “government small enough to fit into your bedroom.” […]