$3,000 Birth Control‽

[dreadfulpenny81]

I know I'm a little behind on this story, but I've been thinking about this today. During the Democrats mock hearing on birth control, a young woman named Sandra Fluke from Georgetown spoke and said:
"Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school."
I'm just curious -- is that per month? Per

Comments

[lather2002]

Amazing of how conservatives fall into traps set up by Leftists 99% of the time. Though this topic is important in it's own way, it is but a blip on the what is what conservatives, Americans overall should be concerned about. This issue, besides being spun totally by the left, is simply a skirmish so that the majority of Americans will not see that actual battle that is occurring. Or something like that. Just saying

[dvshipper]

She most likely meant that it can cost $3,000 over the course of law school, meaning six or seven years.
I don't really agree with you. I think the government should provide birth control to women if the government wants to stop a population boom, it should provide the tools necessary to prevent it.
And yes, sex is a necessity. It continues the human race.

[leaf_kunoichi]

Yes, sex is a necessity to continue the human race. That said sex to continue the human race does not require birth control.

[dreadfulpenny81]

Seems to me that if these women want government to stay the hell away from their uterus, it's hypocritical of them to be begging for the government to mandate birth control coverage in health insurance plans.

[dreadfulpenny81]

Right, sex is a necessity for breeding purposes but if you feel you're not ready to have a child, you're not going to die if you don't have sex. Then again, no one really dies from not having sex anyway.

[leaf_kunoichi]

Law school typically lasts 3 years. So, that works that she spends about $83 dollars a year on birth control. (Be it co-pays or full cost.) If she's counting undergrad that makes it about $35 for 7 years.

I honestly don't understand why the outrage that birth control isn't handed out free to anyone who wants it. I can think of several medications that cost more than $83 a month and some people require it to, you know, stay alive. Why is there no outrage over people having to pay for diabetic supplies or asthma medication? Why is perfectly fine for my husband and I to pay $400 for 3 things of Advair so he can breathe but not ok that it would cost me $40 a month for birth control pills?