Responding (political post) -- Part 2

Yesterday Sqoodd wrote

No way should the government be telling a private company that it will becovered in their policy. Birth control is already available at healthdepartments around this country. Besides, only one ever got pregnant usingabstinence in the entire history of humans. For us mere morals, it worksevery time it has been tried.Sqoodd

and I responded to the first part -- now for part 2

Birth control is already available at health departments around this country

hmm

is it?

in my fine state the misogynistic lawmakers have managed to defund Planned Parenthood  -- at least with state funds.  They will no longer allow any agency that also provides abortion with any funds at all.

So -- this limits choices for women to have access to birth control -- and other vital services.

Let's go back to the example I posted a few days ago

she's part of the working poor.
she makes too much money for state aid
and not enough to be able to afford her employer provided insurance and to feed her kids and take care of the one one the way.

so she would need to pay some part of her birthcontrol.

I used BC for a great many years
and I never ever got it for free

not even when I was part of the working poor myself.

I always had to pay for them
and they were not cheap.

so -- she could go to a clinic.

If she lives in a busy city like mine
she might be able to go
but she might also have to wait weeks for an appointment
and then wait hours and hours to see a nurse to get an exam

if she lives in a rural area she might not have access to public transportation
so she might not be able to get to the clinic
or might not be able to get there often enough to take the pills all the time

even then -- she might or might not be able to afford the birth control.

and sending someone to the state to get birth control
means

you and I pay for it.
with our tax money

(by the way -- even if I'm morally opposed to something -- my tax money can still be used to pay for it -- isn't that interesting)

here's the thing

if you expect the poor to get their birth control from state funded health facilities
then your people need to stop cutting funding for them.

if you expect the poor to be educated about their birth control choices
then you need to provide better education
in many states they want to limit sex education to abstinence programs
rather than teach girls the proper way to use condoms
that could save their lives

rather than teach them the right way to take the pill

rather than give them options
before they make a foolish mistake
and have the rest of their lives written out for them

part 3 tomorrow.