[C19fan]

They heard of them but they want the rest of us to pay for them.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"...few women I know can comfortably shell out more than $1,000 at the gynecologist's office."

OFCOL ("Oh fer cryin' out loud!") Walt-mart carries oral contraceptives (Sprintec and Tri-Sprintec) for $27 for the 3-month pack = $9 a month. Get your sorry-asterisk boyfriend to pay for it.

And as for the single mothers "stretching every dollar to feed their kids"? Single? No partner? Then why would they need a contraceptive?

And about "stretching every dollar": by far the highest expenditure for food on US EBT cards --- topping $357,700,000 a year--- is "soft drinks."

You could kinda stretch things by foregoing a couple 6-packs of Pepsi.

Then there's the whole issue of birth control vs self-control.

But you know what Mrs. Don-o's going to say about that. You might have to say "Not tonight, and not tomorrow night either" to that guy who's now in your kitchen drinking all your Pepsi.

[Mrs. Don-o]

And I'm, you could say, "pro-choice" with the proviso that "choice" is a pre-conception right.

As my old neighbor on Georgia Avenue used to say, "Chooz before you skrooz."