I don’t find your use of words frightening or judgmental. I find them to be sad and simple-minded.
First, nobody is paying anyone to have sex. That’s ludicrous.
Second, comparing the coverage of contraceptives to providing booze to alcoholics is laughable. Birth control pills are a legitimate health care need for those who wish to be responsible in their reproduction.
Finally, no sir. Providing contraception does NOT give you the right to tell anyone how to run their sex life. Do you think paying medicare tax gives you the right to tell someone who gets a triple bypass when they can eat a cheeseburger?
What really gets me about people like you is that you think you can impose your morality because a few of your tax dollars would go toward this. And you keep parroting Rush Limbaugh, calling Fluke a slut when you really have no clue as to the reality of her sex life.
So maybe you are being judgmental, possessing far less than the facts required to pass judgment. You support government and public intrusion into this woman’s life because you (for whatever flawed reason) equate birth control to promiscuity. That makes you the worst kind of conservative. You want small government, but one just big enough to fit into all of our bedrooms.
“First, nobody is paying anyone to have sex. That’s ludicrous.”
No, it is not. She wants me to pay more, either in taxes or health insurance, so she can have sex with free birth control. That means I’m paying more so she can have sex.
“Birth control pills are a legitimate health care need for those who wish to be responsible in their reproduction.”
Then let THEM pay for them. I have no obligation to pay for their sexual activities.
“Providing contraception does NOT give you the right to tell anyone how to run their sex life. Do you think paying medicare tax gives you the right to tell someone who gets a triple bypass when they can eat a cheeseburger?”
Yes, it does. I strongly support the idea that those getting triple bypasses at my expense should be REQUIRED to lose weight, or pay for their own operation. Their harmful and dangerous lifestyle is not something I need to pay for -although under our current, unconstitutional government, I often do.
“What really gets me about people like you is that you think you can impose your morality because a few of your tax dollars would go toward this...”
Damn right! When I pay the bills, I get to call the shots. When she is mature enough to pay her own way, she can ignore me.
“You support government and public intrusion into this woman’s life because you (for whatever flawed reason) equate birth control to promiscuity.”
I have NO DESIRE to get into her bedroom or her life. SHE is the one insisting I do so. SHE is the one that wants me to pay the bills for her private behavior!
“You want small government, but one just big enough to fit into all of our bedrooms.”
Nope. Not unless invited. I don’t ask the government to pay for my birth control or pregnancies, so they have no right in MY bedroom. If I ever ask the government to fund my sex life, THEN I will be asking them into my bedroom.
Question for you - if the government needs to pay for people’s birth control, then where would YOU cut spending? What do YOU consider to be optional?
Before you propose it, NO, I do not want the government paying for my meds, I don't want the government "giving" me health care, and I sure as hell don't want a government employee between me and my doctor.
If you don't understand that government "free" health care means that the government has complete control of your life, then you must be snorting birth control pills. Government health care will not care for me or any other asthmatic or diabetic or anyone with comorbidity, they will just make us comfortable until we die off. Obama has already stated that the elderly do not deserve high cost health services, instead of a pacemaker, he said they could just take a "pill". Don't you wonder why the advancement of assisted suicide is running parallel with the advancement of government health care??
Socialism is a FAILED economic system which is what everyone is arguing about. Feel free to move to Greece and enjoy the Socialist utopia there. Your village is missing its idiot.
“Birth control pills are a legitimate health care need”
BC is NOT a “NEED”, and definitely not a “health” need!
It was intended only to make it easier to have sex and not have babies - that is why it’s called BC. There are only a few uncommon things that are INCIDENTALLY helped by BC pills - but we (and you, by the following phrase in that sentence) are NOT talking about that. We are talking about their original intention, as indicated by the common nickname.
Not have babies is not a “health need”! It has nothing to do with your health!
In essence, those lacking said tolerance are much like Islamists who would execute (stoning or head removal) an Islamic woman for driving a car.
Also ... adding to my post 107 comment on intolerance ...
One major lesson I've learned from life is that intolerance backed by religious precepts can be drastically wrong; especially in precepts involving science and sex.