The Obama Administration is looking to force health insurance companies to eliminate any co-pays for birth control, citing that such be considered as preventative care. This new mandate will cover a wide range of services, including breast pumps, birth control pills and devices, as well as counseling. Barack Obama had been forced to compromise such back during the ObamaCare debate in Congress to get enough votes for its passage. Kathleen Sebelius of Health and Human Services said ″Not doing it would be like not covering flu shots.″ Linda Rosenstock of the Institute of Medicine, which advises the federal government connects birth control as preventative medicine to stop unintended pregnancies, which she concludes will impact the psychological, emotional and physical health of women.
So here we are, Obama changing the rules after the fact. Why bother reading the 2,700 page health care bill before you vote on it when it will be modified later? Provisions for not funding birth control were made during the political wrangling as Obama needed support from some of the Blue Dog Democrats. Most of whom were voted out in November, 2010.
Of course, we all know that all one really needs for birth control is a single aspirin tablet. A woman simply needs to hold the aspirin as firmly as possible with her knees and she won′t get pregnant. I wonder if ObamaCare will mandate that health insurers pay for that method as well without any co-pay?
That Barack Obama is going back on a promise is nothing new. That the Obama administration is finding some way to sneak birth control, eventually meaning abortion, into being funded by ObamaCare is not unexpected. With all of the egg-head Progressive-Liberal-Socialists now running amok in Health and Human Services, or the likes of Linda Rosenstock of the Institute of Medicine, calling birth control preventative medicine was obvious. Mandating that health insurance companies cover services like breast pumps and counseling is yet another sign that Obama is trying to placate his radical Left base as reelection season draws near.
August 3rd, 2011 at 6:04 am
“That the Obama administration is finding some way to sneak birth control, eventually meaning abortion…..”
Well there’s an asinine slippery slope argument for you.
I liked the part about the aspirin between the knees as well. Are you suggesting that women who can not afford birth control give up sex entirely? Because that ALWAYS works. Luckily men aren’t affected by such things…..
I would think this would THRILL republicans. Better access to birth control will DECREASE the number of unwanted pregnancies, ergo DECREASING the number of abortions and welfare babies, both of which you seem to find so distasteful.
Interesting article on the topic today on The Daily Beast. In part: “The IOM report indicated that the direct medical cost of unintended pregnancy in 2002 was $5 billion, with a savings from contraception that year estimated at $19.3 billion. With nearly half of U.S. pregnancies unintended, there’s quite a bit of room to save money with free contraception.”
August 3rd, 2011 at 7:27 am
” liked the part about the aspirin between the knees as well. Are you suggesting that women who can not afford birth control give up sex entirely? Because that ALWAYS works. Luckily men aren’t affected by such things…..”
Bullsht.
What ? Women cant diddle ?
Men pay good money to watch women play with themselves.
Its not too far a stretch seeing as how one form of birth control could pave the way for whats seen as another method of birth control.
But…
actually, the right and I might disagree on this because I am all in support of liberals getting a hold of contraceptives that can be applied in a non fertilization method such as condoms, pills, castration, etc…
Its the actual killing of a viable live fetus with heart beat and all that drives me nuckin futs.
I have no problem with contributing to the access of pills, ieds, condoms, as long as it doesnt get twisted to give justification to abortion.
August 3rd, 2011 at 7:45 am
I will gladly buy aspirin for any woman that chooses that BC method. Worked quite well for me, and many others—prior to the legalization of murdering babies.
Nothing wrong with being chaste and abstaining from sex. Nothing wrong with having morals and a scruple or 2, either!
August 4th, 2011 at 4:47 am
The second you make a comment like Andrew’s asinine “aspirin between her legs” comment, you are absolving men from any responsibility whatsoever.
It takes two to tango.
And this is what the abortion “debate” is all about. It’s not about murdering babies. It is all about men having power over women, women being forced to bear the responsibility, all the responsibility that really matters, for sex. Once women are free to have abortions, the game changes completely.
You want women to hold aspirins between their legs. Maybe we should outlaw zippers. That ought to work just as well, even better, maybe. Keep that wild horse that causes so much trouble to everyone at bay.
August 4th, 2011 at 5:28 am
“And this is what the abortion “debate” is all about. It’s not about murdering babies. It is all about men having power over women, women being forced to bear the responsibility, all the responsibility that really matters, for sex.”
no one “forced” these women to do anything.
One persons rights stop where another persons begins.
You yourself right there said the woman bears responsibility. So what is it ? Just sex ?
Would you agree that its no longer sex once that babys heart is beating ?
This bullsht argument has to stop.
Its lame, its useless, all because it flies in the face of a womans individual strength to make her own decisions.
Shes to be excused for getting irresponsibly pregnant as if she didnt have the brains to figure out what she was doing ?
Yet its not her fault when she terminates responsibility for her decisions ?
then again, you might have a decent argument if there werent options such as adoption.
I dont know if some idiot broad who couldnt employ the strategy of a pill or a condom really should be raising children.
“Once women are free to have abortions, the game changes completely.”
So, nurturing or aborting life is a game ?
Tell me klo, at what point do you determine “life”?
Can you listen to your kids heartbeat inside your lovers body and cut it out ?
In finishing.
You ass holes have no grounds to speak on whatsoever when it comes to forcing things on people.
Would you like to see the list of liberal mandates from speech to diet to the environment to our diets ?
Maybe communist China would suit you well where you’re allowed only one child and any after that will be killed with the governments blessings and everyone elses money ?