“Congressional debate on the need to cover ‘preventive services’ in health care reform centered on services needed to prevent life-threatening diseases like breast cancer, not on a need to prevent the birth of new recipients of health care,”
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THAR.
My biggest concern about this is that Catholic and other anti-birth control organizations will be like bratty kids (reference the Catholicis closing one of their state funded adoption agencies because they didn't want to let those evil gays adopt kids) and just be like ok, fine, we just won't give our employees health insurance.
My mom works for the church and our health insurance is great... except for birth control. If there weren't any generics that worked well with my body, I'd be screwed on the bc front.
Birth control barely came up in the health care reform debate, brushed aside by the more heated debate over abortion language and coverage.
This is part of why I dislike the laser focus on abortion. It is essential, but enabling women to avoid coming to that point in the first place is just as important.
Yeah, but I imagine those folks who are so staunchly anti-choice think women just shouldn't be having sex at all. :/ It's an "argument" I've come across a lot, sadly.
Not to mention that large numbers of us take BPCs for reasons other than birth control that are medically necessary, so the opposition makes me want to throw one shoe at them for the misogyny and beat them with the other one for the ableism. Would be nice if the only pill that works for my situation wasn't a $50 copay.
Seriously. The entire reproductive system can have so many things wrong with it, being able to get birth control is absolutely essential. It's not just about selfishly dancing around a bonfire singing "No more babies, no more babies!"
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I SEE WHAT YOU DID THAR.
My biggest concern about this is that Catholic and other anti-birth control organizations will be like bratty kids (reference the Catholicis closing one of their state funded adoption agencies because they didn't want to let those evil gays adopt kids) and just be like ok, fine, we just won't give our employees health insurance.
My mom works for the church and our health insurance is great... except for birth control. If there weren't any generics that worked well with my body, I'd be screwed on the bc front.
Other than that little glitch, this is awesome.
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This is part of why I dislike the laser focus on abortion. It is essential, but enabling women to avoid coming to that point in the first place is just as important.
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Not to mention that large numbers of us take BPCs for reasons other than birth control that are medically necessary, so the opposition makes me want to throw one shoe at them for the misogyny and beat them with the other one for the ableism. Would be nice if the only pill that works for my situation wasn't a $50 copay.
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