Birth Control Pill Tax: Forbes Writer Argues Women On Hormonal Contraceptive Pills Should Pay More

[oceandezignz]

While President Obama wants to grant women access to free birth control, this guy thinks women ought to pay more for access to contraception -- $1,500 per year more, to be precise.

Comments

[atheistkathleen]

give us free IUDs and save the fish

[roseofjuly]

You wouldn't have to put the IUD inside yourself, though, and it goes a different place than the tampon. I feel you, though, I hate using tampons too.

[confectionqueen]

And actually allow some of us to get our tubes tied. Don't bitch about my meds polluting the water, then tell me I can't have the surgery.

[crossfire]

Worstall is just trying to come up with an "environmentalist" argument for justifying his misogyny, probably in the vein of "let the bleeding heart libruls chew on THIS one har de har harr."

He can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. Birth control should be free. We should also be working harder on our environmental impact. These are not mutually exclusive things, and he's a fucking idiot for thinking so.

[empath_eia]

He can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut

That is quite the mental image.

[kaymyth]

Wait....his logic is that the pharmeceutical companies shouldn't pay for cleanup because the cost would just get passed on to the women who use birth control, implying that this is a bad thing.. So instead he's going to tax the women who use birth control.

O.o

Is anyone else thinking that his logic does not resemble our Earth logic?

[catalana]

Thank you - I thought I was the only person scratching my head over this.

[roseofjuly]

Yes, I was very confused by that.

[vulturoso]

Ho, ho, whoa there... Now, let's not go talkin' about holding pharmaceutical companies responsible for the pollutants they generate when we can very easily just blame sluts for being slutty (and men are great).

[erunamiryene]

Straight Men,

You would do well to remember that when we pay for birth control, we are paying for you to have sex, as sex with each other - or ourselves - does not require birth control.

Consequently, perhaps you should STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR US TO GET BIRTH CONTROL, you fucking ninnyhammers.

Goddamn, y'all are stupid sometimes.

[emofordino]

SERIOUSLY.