[Just when it began to seem as if there might be little hope for Hobby Lobby employees to receive all contraceptive coverage mandated by the Affordable Care Act, one woman has given us all a reason to believe again. Her name is Ela Darling, and she’s a rising ladies’ porn star.
Darling stars in “How to Get Contraception From Hobby Lobby,” a new X-rated short video for the pornography website WoodRocket.com — otherwise known as “the team behind SpongeKnob SquareNuts” – which spoofs the Supreme Court’s recent decision to “protect” the craft supply corporation’s religious freedom. The performer teamed up with director Justin Donaldson (of Funny or Die) to illustrate how the court’s ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. doesn’t condone the corporation’s choice to provide just 16 forms of contraception, as it might seem.
No, no — in fact, the clip shows that the decision actually protects Hobby Lobby’s religious right to provide 17 different forms of contraception, the last of which isn’t mandated by the ACA — but it is readily available at a Hobby Lobby near you! Just glue together some popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners and sparkly bits of fuzz the way Darling does and you’ll have yourself some homemade birth control.
Now, I'm of a cynical nature as far as what the porn industry is willing to go to in order to make a few bucks. I understand the purpose of satyrical humor in the political theatre. That said, should anyone take a porn starlet seriously in the topic of birth control and religious freedom?
What about the long standing feminist argument that porn objectifies/degrades/endangers women? Are the various women's rights/liberation groups ready and willing to accept Ela Darling as one of their celebrities?
If this was one of the various laws designed to get the porn industry out of a locality, like the requirement to wear condoms during the filming of porn in Sunland, California, would you give a rat's ass?
