Birth Control

Recently my school's newspaper came out with an article discussing the sexual liberty of women. Lets call the author, Ms. Z. Z basically tries to attack two major things, Rush Limbaugh and the infamous Blunt Amendment. I personally would like to outright state that I have nothing against women or if they choose to take contraceptives whether for sexual use or medicinal use, but when they want these things to be insured, I will strongly disagree. I don't find that men's sexual products like Viagra being insured to be a good thing either.



Ms. Z talks about how only she has a right to her body, well that and her doctor, of course... but then immediately goes on to say that only she has the decision whether or not to use birth control. My immediate reaction was, are you old enough and what do your parents think, but then again, as she likes to point out, other than preventing pregnancy, it has many health benefits.

Other than that though, she tries to debunk the congressional leaders by stating that, "Part of the problem is that many of these college-educated, influential political leaders seem confused at what birth control even does." I find it funny how she discredits their knowledge by saying that the college education that these people have and their pressure to have right answers by being constantly in the spot light makes them in-knowledgeable about women's reproductive health. (Huge straw man I know, but I think that when you make a statement like that, you are asking for it.)

After reading this, I just wondered, does she have any understanding of any modernized faith. When you force businesses to deny their faith's doctrines it is religious intolerance even if some women consider it a creepy form of sexual slavery. It would be like enforcing a private christian school to hand out free condoms and birth control pills because some people think that if they want to have sex, then they can. I don't care who you are, but the Blunt amendment states that if the company doesn't believe in providing contraception it doesn't have to. If you disagree with what they think, find someone else to work for. You might say that this economy is bad, but as you state, birth control for women costs $15-$50 per month, so  technically, you are making a financial gain by transferring to a company that provides birth control.

Yes, because when you believe that life starts at contraception, trying to prevent abortion is a crime... ಠ_ಠ

I am not saying that women shouldn't have birth control under any circumstances, I am just saying that any birth control being forced on companies that don't support it is ethically wrong. Her photo accompanying this is a picture of her biting her finger looking seductive, which I'm sure is a great way to get across her point that birth control isn't just for sluts.

Especially when it's just infighting in our own country, tearing our union apart,

ಠ_ಠ I hate propaganda...