The Vaginal Prerogative

You can't have an opinion on abortion or contraception unless you have a vagina, that's what the Left would have you knuckle under and accept.

Right-thinking folks have been giving this Vaginal Prerogative the derision it deserves. Abortion isn't just about the pregnant woman in question, there are the rights of the unborn child as well as society's right to determine who deserves the protection of the law. And contraception ceases to be a private matter between man and woman when the man and woman demand that their desire for subsidized contraception trump the religious liberty and conscience of others.

But rather than dismissing the Left's Vaginal Prerogative, why don't we expand the notion of prerogatives to issues that we care about?

If you must possess a vagina in order to have an opinion on abortion and contraception, then:

You must be a practicing Catholic in order to have an opinion on the health benefits that should be provided to employees at institutions affiliated with the Catholic Church;

You must be an active member of the American armed forces in order to have an opinion on the ideal size of the military budget;

You must be among the 53% of Americans who pay federal income taxes to have an opinion on federal income tax policy. As a corollary, you must be in a given marginal tax bracket in order to express an opinion on the ideal rate for that bracket;

You must run a corporation to have an opinion on the corporate tax rate;

You must be an Agent with the United States Border Patrol to have an opinion on the wisdom of the Department of Justice running guns into Mexico with no supervision or plan to apprehend the purchasers; and

You must be an unborn child to have an opinion on whether your life can be extinguished while you are in the womb.