Join the Fight for Free Birth Control
Even though I have pretty good health insurance, once a month I have to shell out $30 at Walgreens for birth control. Why? Because according to insurance companies I don’t need birth control. What I don’t need, right now at least, is a baby. Therefore, I NEED birth control.
Dr. Hal C. Lawrence III, vice president of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said contraceptives fit any reasonable definition of preventive health care because they averted unintended pregnancies and allowed women to control the timing, number and spacing of births. This, in turn, improves maternal and child health by reducing infant mortality, complications of pregnancy and even birth defects, said Dr. Lawrence, who is in charge of the group’s practice guidelines.
“Pregnancy is not a disease to be prevented, nor is fertility a pathological condition,” said Deirdre A. McQuade, a spokeswoman for the bishops’ Pro-Life Secretariat. “So birth control is not preventive care, and it should not be mandated.”
Give me a break. I’m so sick of pro-lifers trying to tell people how to live their lives. It’s not ok for the government to tell them, but it’s okay for them to tell me!
I actually want children, but I’d like the decision about when to be between me and God – not my neighbor and I.
– Chantay
Chantay, I couldn’t agree more!
While having sex is indeed a choice, it is also our responsibility to be realistic and know that people are going to do it anyway. It’s just like the debate over gun control…whether you get rid of them or not, people will have guns. So why not be smart and proactive about it? Birth control doesn’t “promote” sex, it makes those doing it safer. If you don’t get pregnant to begin with, then there won’t be unnecessary abortions.
Plus, as an unrelated benefit, I’d love to not have to give Walmart (the bane of our society) any of my money every month for my birth control because that’s the only place I can get a discount via my school’s health center.
I don’t agree. If we make birth control free, does that include free condoms as well? If not, whats the point. It takes more than the woman to conceive a child.
Also, what brand of birth control would be covered? Would all brands be covered? Who would decide what brand each woman needed or would be best for her?
There are just to many questions that need to be answered before we can validate “free birth control”.
P.S. (I am pro choice.)
You bring up good points. Yes, men should be held accountable as well. And that’s why I’m also a supporter of the development of a birth control pill for men and why I’m supportive of the fact that health departments and clinics do give out free condoms.
Yes, decisions would have to be made as to what brands would be covered, but I don’t see why that’s a reason to not cover birth control at all.
It would be nice if our government was proactive in birth control measurements instead of reactive in giving out housing assistance and groceries every month. I know and understand that assistance is needed and should be available to us all for a period of time. However, it would be less expensive for us all, if those who go on assistance were limited in their procreation. The working class who could use some assistance do not qualify, but their money goes to support some who sit at home all day and contribute nothing. So, yes birth control should be free to us all. Then perhaps there would be less people needing assistance and less people headed no where because they were never given direction.