Maybe you’ve heard that the GOP plans to cut $327 million in family planning funding that allows low-income women get free birth control and annual lady parts checkups. This is a terrible idea!
Here is why:
1. Free birth control saves the country lots and lots of money. Frankly, birth control pills cost society a lot less overall than babies that moms can’t afford. Research shows that for every $1 we spend on birth control, taxpayers save $3.74.
2. The federal coverage is essential to making birth control accessible. Birth control costs anywhere from $10 to $50 a month if it’s not covered by insurance, a big enough price tag that certainly many low-income women would gamble on not buying it.
3. No free birth control means more teen mothers and, yes, more abortions. As the president of Planned Parenthood said when she came to cut the ribbon at Portland’s new clinic last year, anyone who wants to bring down the abortion rate should be in favor of dropping birth control out of airplanes en masse to all Americans (metaphorically, of course).
4. If there wasn’t free birth control, I would definitely be pregnant by now. And no one wants that.
What about: less birth control means more Democrats? Think about it…
Every Republican policy related to abortion and family planning is predicated on the idea that women should be punished for having sex. Once you understand that, every single one of their policies makes sense.
I’m much more comfortable with smirk procreating than WSH.
Hmm. That sounds suspiciously like reasoning. If it’s not an emotional tag line of less than 5 syllables, you’ve lost them.
Remember: reason < EMOTION.
Once there was a communist dictator who in 1966 banned birth control in his country. When the little unwanted bastards grew up they over threw Nicolae Ceauşescu’s government and used bullets to chop him and his wife into little pieces.
The US violent crime drop in the Clinton years also correlates with the drop in unwanted bastards due to available birth control.
I think Lindy is pregnant but I am afraid to ask her because she might just be well fed…
I thought Republicans claim to be the party that wants government to “stop middling in the lives of the public”.
More people, just means I’ll be even more alone, sigh…
@econoline shut up please.
@davej Please do not shut up. You are exactly right.
@ahayron: never heard of rebelling against your parents?
@bigfootdude: meddling
@sarah: glad you’re getting laid!
I like to think that reason #4 is was written in real-time. As in: “…since I started writing this article,”
“4. If there wasn’t free birth control, I would definitely be pregnant by………NOW.”
Man, what *is* it with the GOP? These people just cannot deal with the fact that the rest of us like to fuck. Talk about championship hang-ups…