Conservative Fundamentalists and other People’s Bodies

What’s the deal with religous conservatives and other people’s bodies? There’s an incredibly long history of being busybodies. Even married couples attempting to practice birth control faced outrageous laws starting in 1873 when the Comstock Act made shipping birth control illegal. Twenty Six states had laws aginst birth control until 1972. Sodomy laws were rampant until very recently. Texas still has (and actively enforces) laws against sex toys. Most religous conservatives are happy to overrule a womans control of her body from the moment the ovum is fertilized. When the conservatives say there’s no right to privacy in the constitution, or that judges shouldn’t legislate from the bench, what they are really saying is that they want back complete control of other people’s bodies. If that isn’t repressive big government, what could be?