Well, your description of the way things work at the FDA would certainly make me want to do away with it as a Federal agency. I hope that there is actually SOME medicine involved.
Jindal, as a Governor, I thought we were agreed, is taking a completely political view on this. I don’t think that anything he could propose would look anything like other former-prescrpition-drugs and their transition to OTC?
I like recreational sex, too, but I don’t want to subsidize someone elses. I think most Consevatives would feel the same way, and that’s the way to beat-back Sandra Fluke and the AHCA debacle the Democrats have us in.
I suppose you are thinking of me as, you equated to Santorum, wanting to ban BC or something. That is not the case. In that sense I am in agreement with you that BC is a “settled” issue. But I think you are wrong if you think that many people want to publicly pay for it for everyone. I also think a great many parents would not like to give up what little control they have in its use.
You know, as we discussed earlier, you can both win your point and lose it, too. The use of BC is, as you say, “settled” in America. In 50 years, though, that America will no longer exist. The culture(s) that will replace it, have also “settled” the issue. They don’t use it, and that is why they will replace us.
I am not sure where you are getting the idea that Jindal or I are advocating paying for anyone's birth control. The point of making it 'over the counter' is so that we DON'T have to subsidize others sex lives. The idea is to take the pill out of the realm of prescription drugs so that it no longer needs to be covered by insurance.
The reason the idea will get some conservative support is that many on the right don't much like the FDA requiring so many drugs be prescription only in the first place. It's icing on the cake that we take the pill away from Obama as a political tool.
You know, as we discussed earlier, you can both win your point and lose it, too.
You are right about this. I get your point. But that ship has sailed, and quite frankly I don't want politicians babbling about whether birth control is good or bad. If the church wants to take a position on that, fine. But it's really just not something I believe the government should have much to do with.