AFGHAN OR AMERICAN TALIBAN, WHICH IS MORE CONTROLLING?

The Taliban in Afghanistan doesn't mince words with its threats. If Asma had not made a living giving lessons in Afghanistan, the Taliban would not have decided to teach her one of their own. Recently,  in a school in the southern part of Afghanistan, Asma received a letter one day which read:  "We warn you to leave your job as a teacher as soon as possible otherwise we will cut the heads off your children and we shall set fire to your daughter,"  Needless to say, the woman quit her job immediately.  The Taliban claimed another quiet victory in their silent war on Afghan women; a war, some warn, in which they could be on the cusp of a breakthrough.  To read more, click here.

We have known all along that the misogynists in the Taliban want their women to remain uneducated, their chattel, their sexual and child-bearing slaves.  What gives me difficulty is the similarity to our American 'Taliban'.  In 2004 the The Supreme Court also decided, however, that states have a right to regulate how abortions are performed and that states may ban abortions after the fetus is viable (able to live outside the womb) unless the mother's life or health is endangered.  Click here for more on this. Some Republican states have taken this idea and run with it to the point of trying to ban contraception, which some intelligent people night see as an over-reaction to protecting life when they don't allow routine health tests to be paid for as preventive required medical expense..  (These efforts will do away, not only with marriages, but heterosexual sex).  

The result will be good for merchants selling sex toys, dildos, and what many women already call their B.O.B. (battery operated boyfriend; you get no STDs, can't get pregnant, and use it only when in the mood).  These have become so popular, they are no longer received in unidentifiable catalogs by mail, but in popular catalogs which describe themselves as selling health aids.  The could well advertise as selling body part replacements, not mentioning that the replacement is of someone else's body part. 

What is it that makes these politicians who claim to want government less intrusive in our lives, take such an intrusive role in social and medical decisions?  Since the only rationale behind their stance is a religious one or a personal belief, what allows a group to make decisions for all people when it is not made 'for the good of all'?  This is rather controlling, is it not? 

controllingpresent participle of con·trol (Verb)

1. Determine the behavior or supervise the running of.

2. Maintain influence or authority over.

This behavior does not sound as fulfilling the essence of a democracy to me!