I
get madder than Rick Santorum at a gay rights parade when I hear
conservatives claiming hospitals and schools' privately funded employee
health plans shouldn't cover birth control! They claim that Catholic
hospitals should be able to drop that coverage because they are morally
opposed to it. I say, "As usual, you are acting like morons!" People who
profess this viewpoint conveniently overlook several points of issue.
All in their own personal little quests to stop people from having sex.
Point A: Health insurance providers WANT to include this coverage. They state, correctly, that this coverage costs the church nothing. Health care plans would actually cost more if birth control pills were not covered. That is because these providers know that if they don't provide birth control, they would have to pay for more live births. You can supply many women birth control pills for their lifetime for the cost of a live birth or two.
Point B: The pill is commonly prescribed for several medical conditions other than simply preventing pregnancies. It is an effective treatment for certain cancers, diseases, and is commonly used by some women to regulate irregular periods.
Point C: These same institutions have all been covering the pill already for the last 40 years or so! That's right - this is nothing new! Forty years and not a peep from the bishops! Now they have suddenly decided that this would make an excellent election year political football. Well, it probably will - if you don't need the women's vote!
Point D: There appears to be no outrage when it comes to these same institutions including Viagra in their coverage! Here is a pill with literally only one use! But it apparently is OK for men to have sex, not women! What do you expect from the same folks who brought you serial pedophilia?
Point E: Churches retain their religious freedom under this plan! That's right!! Churches are not included in the plan! What are included are schools, clinics, and hospitals! If a church decides to start up a business, they are being asked to play by the same rules as all the other similar businesses! If they don't like the rules, they can go back to being a church! If a church decides to start up a bank, doesn't it make sense that they would be required to comply with all the current banking regulations? Or do they get exceptions there, too? Maybe a couple walks into their bank and tries to take out a loan for their wedding. The church says no - even though they obviously qualify. Why? Because they're gay, you moron! That would clearly be discriminatory if Bank America did that!
The church is trying to roll the clock back fifty years or so when it comes to women's reproductive health! They obviously think, as Rick Santorum recently agreed, that they are being asked to pay for sexual promiscuity. That's right - the church thinks women who take the pill are sexually promiscuous! That will come as a surprise to a lot of moms out there! And most disturbing of all perhaps is the widespread erroneous belief that the pill somehow causes abortions or miscarriages. That is patently false. The pill works by preventing ovulation! When women don't ovulate, they do not produce eggs, so there is nothing to fertilize! Religious folks who like to talk about exceptions to this are without knowing it referring to the times when the pill is taken incorrectly or inconsistently. Think you know about birth control pills? Click on the link below and find out!
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Orville K. Bass, American
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