This week, regulations were approved mandating that health insurance companies cover birth control without a co-pay. This, of course, is being marked as a historic event by organizations such as Planned Parenthood. However, quite a few conservative groups are upset. So upset, in fact, we're not sure they're even thinking before they open their mouths.
“We’re $14 trillion in debt and now we’re going to cover birth control, breast pumps, counseling for abuse? Are we going to do pedicures and manicures as well?” asked Sandy Rios, the Family PAC Federal Vice President. “Having a baby is not the worst thing. I think having multiple sex partners without any kind of restraint or responsibility is much more damning.”
Wait, what? So birth control, breast pumps and counseling are just as trivial as getting your nails done? And having multiple sex partners is worse than having a baby before your ready and possibly ruining both your lives? This woman's a genius. Or perhaps she owns a health insurance company?
Oh but it gets better. GOP Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) says we're killing ourselves by providing women with birth control.
“If you applied that preventative medicine universally what you end up with is you've prevented a generation. Preventing babies from being born is not medicine. That's not—that's not constructive to our culture and our civilization. If we let our birth rate get down below replacement rate we're a dying civilization,” King said on the House floor on Monday night.
Because 307 million people taxing the resources our homeland provides isn't enough. We need more people!
We're thinking our civilization would be doing just fine without these people all up in the uteri of people they don't even know.
“We’re $14 trillion in debt and now we’re going to cover birth control, breast pumps, counseling for abuse? Are we going to do pedicures and manicures as well?” asked Sandy Rios, the Family PAC Federal Vice President. “Having a baby is not the worst thing. I think having multiple sex partners without any kind of restraint or responsibility is much more damning.”
Wait, what? So birth control, breast pumps and counseling are just as trivial as getting your nails done? And having multiple sex partners is worse than having a baby before your ready and possibly ruining both your lives? This woman's a genius. Or perhaps she owns a health insurance company?
Oh but it gets better. GOP Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) says we're killing ourselves by providing women with birth control.
“If you applied that preventative medicine universally what you end up with is you've prevented a generation. Preventing babies from being born is not medicine. That's not—that's not constructive to our culture and our civilization. If we let our birth rate get down below replacement rate we're a dying civilization,” King said on the House floor on Monday night.
Because 307 million people taxing the resources our homeland provides isn't enough. We need more people!
We're thinking our civilization would be doing just fine without these people all up in the uteri of people they don't even know.
Great article. These people who are so worried about our future populace need to get out more often. I went to the store today and there was a woman, Im not kidding, who has 30 children, okay 7 are adopted...how did this conversation come up? I was talking to her sister when 12 children called her Mom and then after I put my eyeballs back in my head the youngest sister came up and both gave the youngest a hard time because she only has 5. All I could ask is, who pushes the cart for groceries? The oldest child with them at the time. That's 47 children! So I said, Christmas must be something. "Yes it is especially when our 2 brothers come with their 23 kids." I swear I'm not making this up. Then I thought about where I live, and remembered women my own age asking what was wrong with my girls because they didn't have at least 1 child before graduating high school. All I could answer was, "They suffer from being smart."
I can't believe the ignorance of some people! Birth control, breast pumps and abuse counseling is in no way trivial!! how can they possibly compare them to getting your nails done!! Our population is too large anyway, it's growing much too fast for the world's resources to keep up! Covering birth control for everyone is a step in the right direction!!