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Barbara Boxer: Why no Viagra complaints?
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Posted on 03/25/2014 9:25:09 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Barbara Boxer: Why no Viagra complaints? By: Tal Kopan March 25, 2014 11:28 AM EDT

As the Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday about the Obamacare mandate on birth control coverage, Sen. Barbara Boxer questioned why those up in arms about the requirement have no problem with most insurance covering Viagra.

“I have never heard Hobby Lobby or any other corporation, I could be wrong, or any other boss complain that Viagra is covered in many insurance plans, practically all of them, or other kinds of things, you know, for men, which I won’t go into,” Boxer said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Jansing & Co.”

The California Democrat was discussing the lawsuit before the Supreme Court Tuesday morning arguing that companies like Hobby Lobby, which brought the suit, shouldn’t have to provide for employees’ birth control because it violates their religious beliefs.

Host Chris Jansing pressed Boxer as to whether she could compare Viagra and birth control, saying Hobby Lobby and other advocates argue that birth control is a “life issue.”

“I have never heard them put any type of moral objection, remember, this is a moral objection, to men getting Viagra, but they have a moral objection to women getting certain types of birth control,” Boxer said. “What’s their next moral objection, do they then object to vaccinations? Where do you take it from here? … There has been a well-documented study by a university that gave women free birth control for several years. Abortions went down by 50 percent, Chris. So if you are for life and want to attack this issue for abortion, this is a place we could work together and reduce the number of abortions.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; abortion; barbaraboxer; dopeydems; hobbylobby; infanticide; thebiglie; viagra; waronwomenmeme
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To: Malone LaVeigh; shibumi

Anything beyond 2 hours is just showboating.

:)


61 posted on 03/25/2014 9:56:08 AM PDT by Salamander (SNEK!!!)
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To: Smedley

I do not want to think of women on that filling the streets to take advantage of defenseless men. I’d go blind.


62 posted on 03/25/2014 9:56:38 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Sub-Driver

Viagra is medicine for a serious condition, the inability to have sex, it isn’t an aphrodisiac, or a sex ointment, or sex toy to enhance sex, or to improve sex, or to make it more frequent, but simply to make the body part be able to function. Viagra is medicine, but since it is related to a man’s penis, people just can’t treat it as medicine, it always has to be a sex joke, or in this case, wrap it up in sexist male sexuality, condoms and birth control are an entirely different area.


63 posted on 03/25/2014 9:56:41 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: Sub-Driver

So to this fools eyes, aiding in the potential creating of life is equivalent to aiding in the willful destruction of life...... Interesting


64 posted on 03/25/2014 9:57:06 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Vermont Lt
Used properly, the morning after pill makes it impossible for the egg to become fertilized.

Yes? How does it do this rather than simply prevent implantation?

65 posted on 03/25/2014 9:58:28 AM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: grania
Why the heck is Viagra covered by insurance? She makes a good point.

Oh please. Erectile dysfunction drugs are meant to correct a medical or physical condition that prevents normal function. Birth control drugs are meant to disrupt normal function. How hard it that to understand?

66 posted on 03/25/2014 10:01:03 AM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: Oberon

Boxer is hoping for a miracle drug maybe a Viagra/LSD combo so someone might go for her...


67 posted on 03/25/2014 10:01:21 AM PDT by eartotheground
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To: Sacajaweau
Viagara is a buck a pill and up. If you can’t find a buck, you’re dead meat.

I don't care who you are...that's funny!

68 posted on 03/25/2014 10:02:35 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: mc5cents
How often is Viagra NECESSARY for health? If someone wants an optional choice, fine, let them pay for it out of their own pocket.

Viagra has probably killed more old geezers than it's saved.

69 posted on 03/25/2014 10:03:34 AM PDT by grania
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To: Malone LaVeigh
Well this man I would guess.......

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/man-abuses-erection-drug-has-penis-amputed/nZ4pZ/

70 posted on 03/25/2014 10:04:27 AM PDT by annieokie
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To: grania

a huge smile would be a dead giveaway.


71 posted on 03/25/2014 10:06:27 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: jsanders2001

That would be one very LARGE pill.


72 posted on 03/25/2014 10:10:40 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Sacajaweau

More like $7.50


73 posted on 03/25/2014 10:13:08 AM PDT by newbie 10-21-00
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To: newbie 10-21-00

http://atlantic-drugs.net/products/viagra.htm


74 posted on 03/25/2014 10:15:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: grania
How often is Viagra NECESSARY for health?

We are talking about procreative health here. It is after all the reason for a marriage between a man and a woman is it not? If not then maybe we have a bigger problem than many think.

75 posted on 03/25/2014 10:19:03 AM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: Sub-Driver

No one objects to covering pharmaceutical treatments for female sexual dysfunction either, and the same folks who object to covering hormonal contraceptives for women also object to covering condoms and will object to covering a pharmaceutical contraceptive administered to men should one ever be developed.

Boxer is an idiot, though she’s not the first I’ve heard this nonsense from. I’m not sure where the meme of equating hormonal contraceptives with treatments for male sexual dysfunction came from, but it seems to have surprising currency among the less thoughtful. (And, yes, I used meme deliberately — it fits here: an idea-like thing that spreads linguistically, but has no actual content.)


76 posted on 03/25/2014 10:21:48 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Sub-Driver

viagra’s purpose into to murder a preborn baby, or anyone for that matter.

further women are also beneficiaries of a guy taking viagra as well.

what do we expect for a stupidcomparison, coming from barbie bobby-soxer?


77 posted on 03/25/2014 10:22:46 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Amazing the ignorance on the left... geezers!!


78 posted on 03/25/2014 10:23:07 AM PDT by SIRTRIS
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To: grania

because the GOV is not requiring insurance to cover Viagra.


79 posted on 03/25/2014 10:24:19 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: DoodleDawg

The reasons why insurance companies are interested in paying for either vasectomies or abortions is that they represent stop-losses.

From an actuarial standpoint, its in their financial interest to cover them.

To the extent that abortions are not covered, it is because it is essentially licensed infanticide and brings a fresh set of financial risks that are not necessarily medical.


80 posted on 03/25/2014 10:26:59 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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