Quote:You say,

 

"...if you want to tell me it's a women's choice what to do once pregnant don't turn around and tell me it's society's responsibility to make sure she doesn't get pregnant."

 

But someone else would say, "if you want to tell me it's not a women's choice what to do once pregnant don't turn around and tell me it's not society's responsibility to help her make sure she doesn't get pregnant."

 

After all, can't we eliminate most abortions by eliminating unwanted pregnancies?  If abortions are evil and undesirable, then why not undertake an effort to provide women with birth control?  

 

The policy, no birth control and no abortion, is one that condemns women to having babies they don't want and/or cannot support.  We have lots and lots of babies born to unwed poor mothers, and that is a huge drain and drag on society.   The women drop out of school, go on welfare, the children wind up in prison because of the lack of a father at home, etc etc etc.   So why do you not want these people to have birth control? 

 

I know your answer already.   You want them to use birth control, you just don't want the government to provide it or mandate it in insurance plans.   But to me, this is the perfect place for the government to step in and do something to reduce a huge cost to society: unwed mothers, young men that wind up in prison because of the lack of a father, or, worst of all to the religious people, ABORTIONS. 

 

The answer is birth control, and we should be pushing it on people, not making it more difficult to get. 

 

No one's making it difficult to get, it's at every store even some gas stations. What you're asking is for me to pay for my neighbors sex habit and using the threat of force to do so. 

 

Outlaw Abortions, I'll be the first to sign up for tax payer funded birth control. But that will happen about the same time we see spending cuts in relation to tax increases.

 

Bottom line, there is NO constitutional authority for government to come into a private ran business and say you must pay for _____ medical procedure. If you want the government to have that authority then be ready for a single payer system because it doesn't stop at birth control and most business's can't afford to pay for every possible health procedure under the sun. 

 

That's ultimately the goal of this game, push the cost up so we have to default to single payer. You think health care sucks now? Just wait until everyone's on the equivalent of VA or Medicaid. 

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