It’s hard to believe the republicans are so desperate to show that they are NOT OBAMA that they are attacking birth control as evil. It’s somehow against their religious freedom to allow insurance companies to cover it.
Okay, I know there are some religions that frown on birth control. Catholics in particular are rumored to believe that every sex act should result in a baby and no one should be having sex unless they want that baby. And sex itself is a necessary evil. I’m surprised the Catholic church is against artificial insemination (I believe I also heard THAT rumor a few years ago). You’d think a nice, non-sex, way to have babies would be a great thing for a religion like that. But it turns out they prefer the old-fashioned way even if it is kind of icky and sinful.
The problem as I see it is that not every one in America is Catholic.
Not to mention a good percentage of American Catholics aren’t exactly on the bandwagon about the no birth control – impossibly big family plan that the Catholic church proposes.
So what about all the other Americans? What about the Methodists and Baptist and Atheists? Are they supposed to be force to give up sex or have big families too?
What about the idea – I hate to mention it, but I can’t help myself – that big families are supposed to help your religion grow and fill the earth? Wouldn’t it be kind of counter-productive to have other people also having lots of babies who were not going to be raised Catholic?
Okay, so it’s primarily a woman’s health issue. Some women, as it turns out, want to do something other than live out their lives as breeding stock. Some women are not actually built to be able to get pregnant and give birth and die trying. Some realize that’s not a good idea medically and prefer not to die trying. Some are single and need to support themselves and don’t think they can afford children.
So let’s cry about the evils of birth control and alienate all the women. Hey, maybe we can even go back to the good old days when women weren’t allowed to vote!
But what about the men?
Have you ever heard of a father who didn’t like having to pay child support? It seems like this birth control issue might be a problem for those deadbeat dads – and more of a problem for the dads who are struggling to keep up with their child support payments.
And what about the married men? Ever think that they might want to quit after a child or two and have a little money left over for household repairs, vacations, or maybe a sports car? (Well, they could give up sex… I guess. But that doesn’t seem likely.)
No. The birth control issue makes for some great headlines, but I can’t see it making much headway with thinking people around the country.
It’s so much cheaper to get birth control than an abortion. And cheaper than paying for delivering a baby. Not to mention raising a child and sending him/her to college some day.
As much sense as it seems to make to cover a preventative treatment like birth control, a friend of mine brought out the big guns the other day and had to mention how birth control was not a constitutional right. I’m not sure why that’s relevant. Neither is treatment for cancer, high blood pressure, or even band-aids to the best of my knowledge. And yet, that same friend didn’t seem to be saying that we should eliminate all health care in the country.
I suppose that’s just eliminate health care for those who can’t afford to pay for it themselves. Of course, he’s ex-military, so he has pretty good health care already paid for by the US tax payers. And he probably doesn’t need birth control either.
Paint me frustrated.