Wanting free contraception makes you
a whore. At least, if you are asking the
opinion of Rush Limbaugh or his supporters you are. Now, let’s face the facts, not a single one of
us wants to give up on our birth control and if there is one person who wants
us to loose our birth control less than we do it’s our boyfriends/husbands, and
to be honest, although they don’t like to admit it, our fathers. We as women are made to have babies, and
society has primed us to raise them. If
the girls on 16 and pregnant can it,
we can too! On the other hand, there is
no 16 and my girlfriend is pregnant
to prep boys for fatherhood. In fact
most of the fathers on the show end up being exactly the kind of guy your
boyfriend is trying NOT to be. Our
fathers also know this, and panic worse than we do when we say we are pregnant.
Babies aside (we all know that is cost about a million dollars to raise a baby and that will fall on us if a woman is not financially prepared to have a baby), however, we all know that
birth control does AMAZING things for our bodies. The hormones lessen the blow of the much
feared PMS mood swings (as well as all the other icks that come along with
it). So why would any guy (or anyone for
that matter) near us want us off this miracle drug? So, when that silly little boy makes a
comment about our birth control, it is far too easy to get emotional, call him
an idiot, and walk away. However, there
is far more to this controversy, and we all need to calm down pat him on the
shoulder and calmly explain to him the true facts of the issue. This, of course, means that we need to know
the full issue, because if you get down to it this issue isn’t about birth
control at all.
The issue of Obama-care has been
brought before the supreme court is not because of birth control at all, but
because it requires all individuals to purchase a minimum standard of
healthcare. Whether you think this is
right or wrong is your own prerogative.
However, you should be able to fight your opinion on THIS matter,
without attacking or even bringing up women specifically.
So why is birth control even an
issue? Well, under this new minimum
standard, all preventative health care is available without co-pay. Birth control, rightfully, is considered
preventative healthcare. Why? Well in
addition to preventing babies, birth control also prevents uterine and ovarian
cancer, symptomatic endometriosis, and the need for surgery for fibroids, it helps
with PCOS, PMDD, irregular bleeding, and
regulates PMS. If anyone calls into
question the preventative nature of birth control, simply direct them to google
or a doctor, because factually birth control is preventative care.
The issue, was actually raised into
question by Catholic bishops, before conservative politicians used it as a
shiny distractor in their own campaigns.
Funny thing is, while these bishops were busy defending their pocket
books, the Pope had actually been speaking out in defense of birth
control. Historically, while the church
was against birth control, we must keep in mind that this came into practice
during the same time when birth control was still unsafe to use. However, now that it is becoming safer, the
church has lessened its grip on it, in a similar fashion to the way that they
now allow you eat bacon and ignore all the other rules listed in Leviticus. Of course, the church still wants to remain
in full support of procreation, the church has officially come out saying that
although they are against the use of sex for a purpose other than procreation,
if you are in a situation in which you don’t intend on procreating, go ahead
and use contraception as it is not making what you’re doing bad, it’s the original
action. Nuns with in the church, have
also come out in support of this new mandate because of its access to birth
control, because nuns are actually out working with the population and seeing
the need. Also, nuns are women. What it comes down to for the church, is
money. I hate to say it, but after
thirteen years in a catholic schooling, I know fully well that the church is
actually a business. Sure, they are in a
“noble” business of helping to develop our souls; much like a university
develops our minds or a gym develops our bodies. However, when you get down to it, it’s a
business. If it weren’t about money,
wouldn’t these bishops have tried it and shown that the women under their
employment weren’t taking the drug and therefore, they shouldn’t have to pay for
it? If they had used this method I may
have agreed with them and said “sure don’t worry about paying for it,” but they
didn’t because we all know the women working for them are on it (98% of
sexually active) catholic women have taken birth control.
So, why are we even debating
it? Because it’s a distraction. Our politicians all know that there are so
many issues in our world today that they cannot find the perfect answer
too. In fact, they probably could not
even fight against the previous battle in a way that would win them
supporters. In all honesty how can you
easily fight that one child deserves better preventative health care than
another because of their parent’s income.
Especially, when they are both American children just like you or
I. Is requiring mandated health care the
best solution? It’s a big issue, with complicated
solutions, which are hard to debate. So,
for a politician it is easy to throw up something like birth control and say it
is wrong because it is immoral and gain backing from people who were raised
under these old beliefs of the church.
It is easy to call girls who want something that enables them to have
sex whores, but guess what buddy it takes two to tango. When their opposition questions them on
keeping birth control away from women, they can always say well I’m not against
it when they are paying for it (that’s funny cause you didn’t say that before). The fact of the matter is when you give women birth control,
poverty levels go down, and education levels go up and that is something any
nation will benefit from.
We as women, have survived for
plenty of years without free birth control, and if Obama-care is thrown out for
mandating citizens to purchase something, we shall continue to pay for it. Were it is wrong is for these men to call
women out as being “whores” and “sluts” or defending what our country has
deemed our right as it has been in this health care reform.
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