More Birth Control = Fewer Abortions

[Dragonlady]

If there's no funding or mandates many women will not have access to birth control. Insurance covers viagra no questions asked. Why can't birth control be treated the same?

Viagra treats a medical problem.

What affliction does birth control treat?

Yes I know about female issues. Most employers make exception when proscribed for those issues.

Here is the thing, when I complete my 40+ hours of work per week I have earned my money to spend how I want. I have also earned my right to use my insurance as I want. If you do not want your paid wages to go to birth control nobody sais you have to be an employer. My boss has no right to tell me what to do with my money or my insurance. I get freedom of religion and freedom from religion.

When an employer provides healthcare insurance to the employees, the employer is buying the insurance package.
The employer should be the one to decide what is included and not included in the package.
If you do not like the package the employer has purchase, you can get a different job.
Your employer is not telling you what to do with your money. The employer is choosing what to do with his money.

Wrong on every score. The health insurance is part of MY compensation. Part of what I'm paid for doing the job. You're basically saying that your employer gets to decide what I do with my pay check.

If I applied for a job and the employer healthcare package didn't include birth control, I would refuse the job. Not because I need birth control, but because this is not the kind of employer I would want to give my talents or abilities to help.

That is your choice. Everyone should have that choice. Does that make sense now?

You miss the point. Employers should have NO SAY in what medical treatments are covered in employee health care packages. None. That is between the employer and their doctors.

Here in Canada, the Catholic Church pays for health care for its employees which includes both birth control and abortion. Not once ever have they filed lawsuits claiming a violation of their religious freedom.

This whole "it's against our religion" is a scam to try to force others into living by THEIR religious ideals. That violates the religious freedom of every employee working for them.

 

[evenflow1969]

This is an informative article on what really happens when people try to legislate sexual morality and insist others live according to THEIR religious beliefs. Sadly, this is not going to have the effect the moral warriors are hoping for. Limiting birth control options by making them more costly or harder to access is going to lead to more abortions or more poor outcomes for both the mothers and children. Abstinence based initiatives have been studied and shown to have no measurable impact on abortion rates. Birth control use did. In a big way. Don't like abortion? Make birth control MORE available, not less.

So why is the current Administration trying to make birth control harder to come by?

Trump jeopardizes progress in reducing teen pregnancy and abortion rates


Teen birth rates have been cut in half over the last decade, which is beneficial not only to young women but to Americans as a whole. The decline is attributed to public health outreach and better use of contraception.

President Donald Trump has put that access to contraception in jeopardy with his rollback of a rule that required employers, with some narrow exceptions, to include contraception, at no cost, in their health insurance plans....

The Trump administration has already quietly cut more than $200 million for ongoing research into the most effective ways to prevent unwanted teen pregnancies, a decision most likely driven by ideology rather than science.

Three-quarters of U.S. teen pregnancies are unplanned and nearly a third end in abortion, which is much higher than the overall abortion rate of 14.6 percent. That’s the lowest rate since 1973, the year of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

Teen pregnancy has multi-generational consequences. Only half of teen mothers receive a high school diploma by age 22, compared with 90 percent of women who do not give birth as teens.

The children of teenage mothers also are more likely to drop out of high school. In addition, they are more likely to have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as teenagers, and face unemployment as young adults.

No government official is preventing anyone from getting birth control.
All that is happening is the removal of mandates forcing people to do things against their will.
I thought you were against rape.

If there's no funding or mandates many women will not have access to birth control. Insurance covers viagra no questions asked. Why can't birth control be treated the same?

Viagra treats a medical problem.

What affliction does birth control treat?

Yes I know about female issues. Most employers make exception when proscribed for those issues.

Here is the thing, when I complete my 40+ hours of work per week I have earned my money to spend how I want. I have also earned my right to use my insurance as I want. If you do not want your paid wages to go to birth control nobody sais you have to be an employer. My boss has no right to tell me what to do with my money or my insurance. I get freedom of religion and freedom from religion.

When an employer provides healthcare insurance to the employees, the employer is buying the insurance package.
The employer should be the one to decide what is included and not included in the package.
If you do not like the package the employer has purchase, you can get a different job.
Your employer is not telling you what to do with your money. The employer is choosing what to do with his money.

It is not the employers money, I traded my hours for my wages it is now my money. You want to lick your bosses boot and cup his balls go ahead, it is not for me. Where does your bosses influence end? No kidney or liver treatment because they are against alcohol. No treatment for gun shot wounds because they are against guns. The employers rights end at my nose. What a peice of dung you are. You are not american, yuo want kings issueing edicts go live in a monarchy or a dictatorship Trator!!!!! Russian paid troll, go back to russia this is america.Why not ask my employer how to spend every penny you lacky. You go neal to the rich man, I 'll resort to my second ammendment rights before I do.

 

[sakinago]

Get together with all of your liberal friends and start a free sex telethon! Take the money raised and fund it, but don't expect everyone to have to fork over money for Horny Hank and Hot Pants Patty to explore each others nether regions!

Whose been trying to limit birth control?? Haven’t heard anyone trying to do this.

If you’re talking about people not on board with throwing birth control around for “free” that’s a different subject entirely. But if it means we can ban abortion if birth control is free, I’m down for that.

You haven't been paying attention. Republicans have been very vocal in saying that access to birth control isn't "good for women". That it encourages "immoral behaviour". It's really none of their business but Republicans are all about "freedom" except when it comes to women and sex. Then we have to be controlled as much as possible.

Really? Who said that? Is that a plank in the Republican Party platform?

Your imagination is getting the best of you again, Canuck!

You obviously don't read much do you?

Trump’s relentless war against birth control

That’s not a relentless war on birth control, that’s a ridiculous straw man argument.

Why do Republicans want to shut down one of the leading sources, Planned Parenthood and want to make it so BC costs are not covered by some health insurance plans.

Oh yea there's a war alright . You're just too stupid to see it.

There are plenty of other women’s health organizations that not only provide birth control, but prenatal care, ACTUAL cancer screenings (not just referrals), counseling, and all sorts of women’s health items that PP doesn’t offer...why is it PP gets all the money, when there are tons of other needs of women that they DO NOT provide...just because they provide BC? You know what’s easier to find than PP...CVS, why isn’t there a program/subsidies with one of these BC providers?? If your goal was better access to BC, this should be your goal, not PP.

 

[Defiant1]

Viagra treats a medical problem.

What affliction does birth control treat?

Yes I know about female issues. Most employers make exception when proscribed for those issues.

Here is the thing, when I complete my 40+ hours of work per week I have earned my money to spend how I want. I have also earned my right to use my insurance as I want. If you do not want your paid wages to go to birth control nobody sais you have to be an employer. My boss has no right to tell me what to do with my money or my insurance. I get freedom of religion and freedom from religion.

When an employer provides healthcare insurance to the employees, the employer is buying the insurance package.
The employer should be the one to decide what is included and not included in the package.
If you do not like the package the employer has purchase, you can get a different job.
Your employer is not telling you what to do with your money. The employer is choosing what to do with his money.

Wrong on every score. The health insurance is part of MY compensation. Part of what I'm paid for doing the job. You're basically saying that your employer gets to decide what I do with my pay check.

If I applied for a job and the employer healthcare package didn't include birth control, I would refuse the job. Not because I need birth control, but because this is not the kind of employer I would want to give my talents or abilities to help.

That is your choice. Everyone should have that choice. Does that make sense now?

You miss the point. Employers should have NO SAY in what medical treatments are covered in employee health care packages. None. That is between the employer and their doctors.

Here in Canada, the Catholic Church pays for health care for its employees which includes both birth control and abortion. Not once ever have they filed lawsuits claiming a violation of their religious freedom.

This whole "it's against our religion" is a scam to try to force others into living by THEIR religious ideals. That violates the religious freedom of every employee working for them.

I don't believe in religion. I believe in ownership rights.
When I use the word employer, I'm talking about the owner of the company.
The owner gets to spend his money as he sees fit.
Including not providing any insurance at all.

 

[Defiant1]

No government official is preventing anyone from getting birth control.
All that is happening is the removal of mandates forcing people to do things against their will.
I thought you were against rape.

If there's no funding or mandates many women will not have access to birth control. Insurance covers viagra no questions asked. Why can't birth control be treated the same?

Viagra treats a medical problem.

What affliction does birth control treat?

Yes I know about female issues. Most employers make exception when proscribed for those issues.

Here is the thing, when I complete my 40+ hours of work per week I have earned my money to spend how I want. I have also earned my right to use my insurance as I want. If you do not want your paid wages to go to birth control nobody sais you have to be an employer. My boss has no right to tell me what to do with my money or my insurance. I get freedom of religion and freedom from religion.

When an employer provides healthcare insurance to the employees, the employer is buying the insurance package.
The employer should be the one to decide what is included and not included in the package.
If you do not like the package the employer has purchase, you can get a different job.
Your employer is not telling you what to do with your money. The employer is choosing what to do with his money.

It is not the employers money, I traded my hours for my wages it is now my money. You want to lick your bosses boot and cup his balls go ahead, it is not for me. Where does your bosses influence end? No kidney or liver treatment because they are against alcohol. No treatment for gun shot wounds because they are against guns. The employers rights end at my nose. What a peice of dung you are. You are not american, yuo want kings issueing edicts go live in a monarchy or a dictatorship Trator!!!!! Russian paid troll, go back to russia this is america.Why not ask my employer how to spend every penny you lacky. You go neal to the rich man, I 'll resort to my second ammendment rights before I do.

You are too incoherent for a response.

 

[Dragonlady]

Here is the thing, when I complete my 40+ hours of work per week I have earned my money to spend how I want. I have also earned my right to use my insurance as I want. If you do not want your paid wages to go to birth control nobody sais you have to be an employer. My boss has no right to tell me what to do with my money or my insurance. I get freedom of religion and freedom from religion.

When an employer provides healthcare insurance to the employees, the employer is buying the insurance package.
The employer should be the one to decide what is included and not included in the package.
If you do not like the package the employer has purchase, you can get a different job.
Your employer is not telling you what to do with your money. The employer is choosing what to do with his money.

Wrong on every score. The health insurance is part of MY compensation. Part of what I'm paid for doing the job. You're basically saying that your employer gets to decide what I do with my pay check.

If I applied for a job and the employer healthcare package didn't include birth control, I would refuse the job. Not because I need birth control, but because this is not the kind of employer I would want to give my talents or abilities to help.

That is your choice. Everyone should have that choice. Does that make sense now?

You miss the point. Employers should have NO SAY in what medical treatments are covered in employee health care packages. None. That is between the employer and their doctors.

Here in Canada, the Catholic Church pays for health care for its employees which includes both birth control and abortion. Not once ever have they filed lawsuits claiming a violation of their religious freedom.

This whole "it's against our religion" is a scam to try to force others into living by THEIR religious ideals. That violates the religious freedom of every employee working for them.

I don't believe in religion. I believe in ownership rights.
When I use the word employer, I'm talking about the owner of the company.
The owner gets to spend his money as he sees fit.
Including not providing any insurance at all.

If health insurance is part of the compensation package it's not his money it's his employees' money. They earned it. The employer should be asking the employees what they want in their healthcare since it's their healthcare not his.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

When an employer provides healthcare insurance to the employees, the employer is buying the insurance package.
The employer should be the one to decide what is included and not included in the package.
If you do not like the package the employer has purchase, you can get a different job.
Your employer is not telling you what to do with your money. The employer is choosing what to do with his money.

Wrong on every score. The health insurance is part of MY compensation. Part of what I'm paid for doing the job. You're basically saying that your employer gets to decide what I do with my pay check.

If I applied for a job and the employer healthcare package didn't include birth control, I would refuse the job. Not because I need birth control, but because this is not the kind of employer I would want to give my talents or abilities to help.

That is your choice. Everyone should have that choice. Does that make sense now?

You miss the point. Employers should have NO SAY in what medical treatments are covered in employee health care packages. None. That is between the employer and their doctors.

Here in Canada, the Catholic Church pays for health care for its employees which includes both birth control and abortion. Not once ever have they filed lawsuits claiming a violation of their religious freedom.

This whole "it's against our religion" is a scam to try to force others into living by THEIR religious ideals. That violates the religious freedom of every employee working for them.

I don't believe in religion. I believe in ownership rights.
When I use the word employer, I'm talking about the owner of the company.
The owner gets to spend his money as he sees fit.
Including not providing any insurance at all.

If health insurance is part of the compensation package it's not his money it's his employees' money. They earned it. The employer should be asking the employees what they want in their healthcare since it's their healthcare not his.

You have no clue how this works do you?

Employers have no obligation to give an employee anything other than what they want to provide.

If you work for me, I lay out the job offer. You can take it or leave it. If you want something I am not willing to offer, you are more than welcome to find another employer.

All of your whining is irrelevant.

 

[Weatherman2020]

This is an informative article on what really happens when people try to legislate sexual morality and insist others live according to THEIR religious beliefs. Sadly, this is not going to have the effect the moral warriors are hoping for. Limiting birth control options by making them more costly or harder to access is going to lead to more abortions or more poor outcomes for both the mothers and children. Abstinence based initiatives have been studied and shown to have no measurable impact on abortion rates. Birth control use did. In a big way. Don't like abortion? Make birth control MORE available, not less.

So why is the current Administration trying to make birth control harder to come by?

Trump jeopardizes progress in reducing teen pregnancy and abortion rates


Teen birth rates have been cut in half over the last decade, which is beneficial not only to young women but to Americans as a whole. The decline is attributed to public health outreach and better use of contraception.

President Donald Trump has put that access to contraception in jeopardy with his rollback of a rule that required employers, with some narrow exceptions, to include contraception, at no cost, in their health insurance plans....

The Trump administration has already quietly cut more than $200 million for ongoing research into the most effective ways to prevent unwanted teen pregnancies, a decision most likely driven by ideology rather than science.

Three-quarters of U.S. teen pregnancies are unplanned and nearly a third end in abortion, which is much higher than the overall abortion rate of 14.6 percent. That’s the lowest rate since 1973, the year of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

Teen pregnancy has multi-generational consequences. Only half of teen mothers receive a high school diploma by age 22, compared with 90 percent of women who do not give birth as teens.

The children of teenage mothers also are more likely to drop out of high school. In addition, they are more likely to have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as teenagers, and face unemployment as young adults.

I had no idea Trump was President prior to this year.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Funny how the left think a 50 year old male should be covered for maternity.

 

[Defiant1]

Wrong on every score. The health insurance is part of MY compensation. Part of what I'm paid for doing the job. You're basically saying that your employer gets to decide what I do with my pay check.

If I applied for a job and the employer healthcare package didn't include birth control, I would refuse the job. Not because I need birth control, but because this is not the kind of employer I would want to give my talents or abilities to help.

That is your choice. Everyone should have that choice. Does that make sense now?

You miss the point. Employers should have NO SAY in what medical treatments are covered in employee health care packages. None. That is between the employer and their doctors.

Here in Canada, the Catholic Church pays for health care for its employees which includes both birth control and abortion. Not once ever have they filed lawsuits claiming a violation of their religious freedom.

This whole "it's against our religion" is a scam to try to force others into living by THEIR religious ideals. That violates the religious freedom of every employee working for them.

I don't believe in religion. I believe in ownership rights.
When I use the word employer, I'm talking about the owner of the company.
The owner gets to spend his money as he sees fit.
Including not providing any insurance at all.

If health insurance is part of the compensation package it's not his money it's his employees' money. They earned it. The employer should be asking the employees what they want in their healthcare since it's their healthcare not his.

You have no clue how this works do you?

Employers have no obligation to give an employee anything other than what they want to provide.

If you work for me, I lay out the job offer. You can take it or leave it. If you want something I am not willing to offer, you are more than welcome to find another employer.

All of your whining is irrelevant.

It is amazing enough when people think they have ownership rights just because they work for a company, now they want rights because they are applying for a job or thinking of applying for a job.

We have allowed liberalism to go too far. Now is the time to push it back.

Go President Trump. Make America Great Again.

 

[Defiant1]

Funny how the left think a 50 year old male should be covered for maternity.

I don't think it's funny!!!!!

If I wake up tomorrow and believe I'm pregnant, who are you to tell me I'm not.

 

[OldLady]

This is an informative article on what really happens when people try to legislate sexual morality and insist others live according to THEIR religious beliefs. Sadly, this is not going to have the effect the moral warriors are hoping for. Limiting birth control options by making them more costly or harder to access is going to lead to more abortions or more poor outcomes for both the mothers and children. Abstinence based initiatives have been studied and shown to have no measurable impact on abortion rates. Birth control use did. In a big way. Don't like abortion? Make birth control MORE available, not less.

So why is the current Administration trying to make birth control harder to come by?

Trump jeopardizes progress in reducing teen pregnancy and abortion rates


Teen birth rates have been cut in half over the last decade, which is beneficial not only to young women but to Americans as a whole. The decline is attributed to public health outreach and better use of contraception.

President Donald Trump has put that access to contraception in jeopardy with his rollback of a rule that required employers, with some narrow exceptions, to include contraception, at no cost, in their health insurance plans....

The Trump administration has already quietly cut more than $200 million for ongoing research into the most effective ways to prevent unwanted teen pregnancies, a decision most likely driven by ideology rather than science.

Three-quarters of U.S. teen pregnancies are unplanned and nearly a third end in abortion, which is much higher than the overall abortion rate of 14.6 percent. That’s the lowest rate since 1973, the year of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

Teen pregnancy has multi-generational consequences. Only half of teen mothers receive a high school diploma by age 22, compared with 90 percent of women who do not give birth as teens.

The children of teenage mothers also are more likely to drop out of high school. In addition, they are more likely to have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as teenagers, and face unemployment as young adults.

No government official is preventing anyone from getting birth control.
All that is happening is the removal of mandates forcing people to do things against their will.
I thought you were against rape.

If there's no funding or mandates many women will not have access to birth control. Insurance covers viagra no questions asked. Why can't birth control be treated the same?

State and local governments should tax accordingly so they can fund these projects and not expect the Federal Government to do their job.

I have no issue with having free programs but prefer it to be on the Local and State level instead...

What is wrong with it being through insurance, Bruce? What if some states don't want to fund birth control?

Somebody is paying for it!

If the state doesn't want to pay for it, that just is added incentive for the deadbeats to move to California or some other liberal bastion.

It is viewed as preventive medicine and most of these teenagers we are discussing are not dead beats; they are covered under their parents' insurance through work. How twisted your view of what is going on here!
It IS preventive medicine. Free reproductive services under everyone's insurance plan, including birth control, has significantly PREVENTED abortions and future welfare recipients by taking away any barriers to effectively preventing unwanted pregnancy.

 

[Defiant1]

When an employer provides healthcare insurance to the employees, the employer is buying the insurance package.
The employer should be the one to decide what is included and not included in the package.
If you do not like the package the employer has purchase, you can get a different job.
Your employer is not telling you what to do with your money. The employer is choosing what to do with his money.

Wrong on every score. The health insurance is part of MY compensation. Part of what I'm paid for doing the job. You're basically saying that your employer gets to decide what I do with my pay check.

If I applied for a job and the employer healthcare package didn't include birth control, I would refuse the job. Not because I need birth control, but because this is not the kind of employer I would want to give my talents or abilities to help.

That is your choice. Everyone should have that choice. Does that make sense now?

You miss the point. Employers should have NO SAY in what medical treatments are covered in employee health care packages. None. That is between the employer and their doctors.

Here in Canada, the Catholic Church pays for health care for its employees which includes both birth control and abortion. Not once ever have they filed lawsuits claiming a violation of their religious freedom.

This whole "it's against our religion" is a scam to try to force others into living by THEIR religious ideals. That violates the religious freedom of every employee working for them.

I don't believe in religion. I believe in ownership rights.
When I use the word employer, I'm talking about the owner of the company.
The owner gets to spend his money as he sees fit.
Including not providing any insurance at all.

If health insurance is part of the compensation package it's not his money it's his employees' money. They earned it. The employer should be asking the employees what they want in their healthcare since it's their healthcare not his.

This isn't about Canada.
I don't expect you to understand American freedom.

 

[evenflow1969]

If there's no funding or mandates many women will not have access to birth control. Insurance covers viagra no questions asked. Why can't birth control be treated the same?

Viagra treats a medical problem.

What affliction does birth control treat?

Yes I know about female issues. Most employers make exception when proscribed for those issues.

Here is the thing, when I complete my 40+ hours of work per week I have earned my money to spend how I want. I have also earned my right to use my insurance as I want. If you do not want your paid wages to go to birth control nobody sais you have to be an employer. My boss has no right to tell me what to do with my money or my insurance. I get freedom of religion and freedom from religion.

When an employer provides healthcare insurance to the employees, the employer is buying the insurance package.
The employer should be the one to decide what is included and not included in the package.
If you do not like the package the employer has purchase, you can get a different job.
Your employer is not telling you what to do with your money. The employer is choosing what to do with his money.

It is not the employers money, I traded my hours for my wages it is now my money. You want to lick your bosses boot and cup his balls go ahead, it is not for me. Where does your bosses influence end? No kidney or liver treatment because they are against alcohol. No treatment for gun shot wounds because they are against guns. The employers rights end at my nose. What a peice of dung you are. You are not american, yuo want kings issueing edicts go live in a monarchy or a dictatorship Trator!!!!! Russian paid troll, go back to russia this is america.Why not ask my employer how to spend every penny you lacky. You go neal to the rich man, I 'll resort to my second ammendment rights before I do.

You are too incoherent for a response.

You not a conservative, defiant one. You are an idiot. You want me to force my values down your throat? I see your todays musket pic. How are you going to shoot any one with y

That is your choice. Everyone should have that choice. Does that make sense now?

You miss the point. Employers should have NO SAY in what medical treatments are covered in employee health care packages. None. That is between the employer and their doctors.

Here in Canada, the Catholic Church pays for health care for its employees which includes both birth control and abortion. Not once ever have they filed lawsuits claiming a violation of their religious freedom.

This whole "it's against our religion" is a scam to try to force others into living by THEIR religious ideals. That violates the religious freedom of every employee working for them.

I don't believe in religion. I believe in ownership rights.
When I use the word employer, I'm talking about the owner of the company.
The owner gets to spend his money as he sees fit.
Including not providing any insurance at all.

If health insurance is part of the compensation package it's not his money it's his employees' money. They earned it. The employer should be asking the employees what they want in their healthcare since it's their healthcare not his.

You have no clue how this works do you?

Employers have no obligation to give an employee anything other than what they want to provide.

If you work for me, I lay out the job offer. You can take it or leave it. If you want something I am not willing to offer, you are more than welcome to find another employer.

All of your whining is irrelevant.

It is amazing enough when people think they have ownership rights just because they work for a company, now they want rights because they are applying for a job or thinking of applying for a job.

We have allowed liberalism to go too far. Now is the time to push it back.

Go President Trump. Make America Great Again.

I have rights when I am I applying for a job or not applying for a job. I have rights if I have a job. I have rights if I do not have a job. So what are you saying. Your employer should get line item veto for the insurance they purchase. So the insurance company gets no say in the product they offer. Are you saying we should outlaw insurance companies from offering birth control. I am an employer. If I want to offer insurance with birth control being covered then that is my right. You get to dictate to me what I am willing to provide? My view is not irrelivant. So how do we legislate your view? Tell me.

 

[Esmeralda]

Well they want to get rid of Medicaid and they really do not care about the poorer population in my opinion. No funding for Chip as of yet, and in my opinion they are only anti PP due to Title X.

They care more about the fetus before it leaves the womb than after.

They don't care at all about the fetus after it leaves the womb. Not at all.

 

[OldLady]

Viagra treats a medical problem.

What affliction does birth control treat?

Yes I know about female issues. Most employers make exception when proscribed for those issues.

Here is the thing, when I complete my 40+ hours of work per week I have earned my money to spend how I want. I have also earned my right to use my insurance as I want. If you do not want your paid wages to go to birth control nobody sais you have to be an employer. My boss has no right to tell me what to do with my money or my insurance. I get freedom of religion and freedom from religion.

When an employer provides healthcare insurance to the employees, the employer is buying the insurance package.
The employer should be the one to decide what is included and not included in the package.
If you do not like the package the employer has purchase, you can get a different job.
Your employer is not telling you what to do with your money. The employer is choosing what to do with his money.

Wrong on every score. The health insurance is part of MY compensation. Part of what I'm paid for doing the job. You're basically saying that your employer gets to decide what I do with my pay check.

If I applied for a job and the employer healthcare package didn't include birth control, I would refuse the job. Not because I need birth control, but because this is not the kind of employer I would want to give my talents or abilities to help.

That is your choice. Everyone should have that choice. Does that make sense now?

You miss the point. Employers should have NO SAY in what medical treatments are covered in employee health care packages. None. That is between the employer and their doctors.

Here in Canada, the Catholic Church pays for health care for its employees which includes both birth control and abortion. Not once ever have they filed lawsuits claiming a violation of their religious freedom.

This whole "it's against our religion" is a scam to try to force others into living by THEIR religious ideals. That violates the religious freedom of every employee working for them.

 

[OldLady]

This is an informative article on what really happens when people try to legislate sexual morality and insist others live according to THEIR religious beliefs. Sadly, this is not going to have the effect the moral warriors are hoping for. Limiting birth control options by making them more costly or harder to access is going to lead to more abortions or more poor outcomes for both the mothers and children. Abstinence based initiatives have been studied and shown to have no measurable impact on abortion rates. Birth control use did. In a big way. Don't like abortion? Make birth control MORE available, not less.

So why is the current Administration trying to make birth control harder to come by?

Trump jeopardizes progress in reducing teen pregnancy and abortion rates


Teen birth rates have been cut in half over the last decade, which is beneficial not only to young women but to Americans as a whole. The decline is attributed to public health outreach and better use of contraception.

President Donald Trump has put that access to contraception in jeopardy with his rollback of a rule that required employers, with some narrow exceptions, to include contraception, at no cost, in their health insurance plans....

The Trump administration has already quietly cut more than $200 million for ongoing research into the most effective ways to prevent unwanted teen pregnancies, a decision most likely driven by ideology rather than science.

Three-quarters of U.S. teen pregnancies are unplanned and nearly a third end in abortion, which is much higher than the overall abortion rate of 14.6 percent. That’s the lowest rate since 1973, the year of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

Teen pregnancy has multi-generational consequences. Only half of teen mothers receive a high school diploma by age 22, compared with 90 percent of women who do not give birth as teens.

The children of teenage mothers also are more likely to drop out of high school. In addition, they are more likely to have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as teenagers, and face unemployment as young adults.

I had no idea Trump was President prior to this year.

President Donald Trump has put that access to contraception in jeopardy with his rollback of a rule that required employers, with some narrow exceptions, to include contraception, at no cost, in their health insurance plans....

 

[sakinago]

When an employer provides healthcare insurance to the employees, the employer is buying the insurance package.
The employer should be the one to decide what is included and not included in the package.
If you do not like the package the employer has purchase, you can get a different job.
Your employer is not telling you what to do with your money. The employer is choosing what to do with his money.

Wrong on every score. The health insurance is part of MY compensation. Part of what I'm paid for doing the job. You're basically saying that your employer gets to decide what I do with my pay check.

If I applied for a job and the employer healthcare package didn't include birth control, I would refuse the job. Not because I need birth control, but because this is not the kind of employer I would want to give my talents or abilities to help.

That is your choice. Everyone should have that choice. Does that make sense now?

You miss the point. Employers should have NO SAY in what medical treatments are covered in employee health care packages. None. That is between the employer and their doctors.

Here in Canada, the Catholic Church pays for health care for its employees which includes both birth control and abortion. Not once ever have they filed lawsuits claiming a violation of their religious freedom.

This whole "it's against our religion" is a scam to try to force others into living by THEIR religious ideals. That violates the religious freedom of every employee working for them.

I don't believe in religion. I believe in ownership rights.
When I use the word employer, I'm talking about the owner of the company.
The owner gets to spend his money as he sees fit.
Including not providing any insurance at all.

If health insurance is part of the compensation package it's not his money it's his employees' money. They earned it. The employer should be asking the employees what they want in their healthcare since it's their healthcare not his.

You both are wrong. The only reason we basically HAVE to get health insurance through our work is because of over regulation. That regulation corners us into tighter markets for the insurance companies. So instead of having 500 some plans to choose from depending on your needs (and employers saying we’ll pay for this amount of that cost) you get maybe 3 options, and the risk is not spread out to the rest of America, but to the 40 or so employees you work with, and if 10 of them are over 50, another 5 are overweight, and another 5 smoke...well the other 20-30 have to cover that increased risk.

 

[OldLady]

Funny how the left think a 50 year old male should be covered for maternity.

This is the way medical insurance has always worked. No one bitched about it until the Republicans came up with this clever idea as part of repeal and replace Obamacare. People could pick and choose their coverage like a salad bar. It wasn't voted in because IT DOESN'T WORK. So get over it. Women have always paid for men's enlarged prostate and erectile dysfunction.

 

[Weatherman2020]

This is an informative article on what really happens when people try to legislate sexual morality and insist others live according to THEIR religious beliefs. Sadly, this is not going to have the effect the moral warriors are hoping for. Limiting birth control options by making them more costly or harder to access is going to lead to more abortions or more poor outcomes for both the mothers and children. Abstinence based initiatives have been studied and shown to have no measurable impact on abortion rates. Birth control use did. In a big way. Don't like abortion? Make birth control MORE available, not less.

So why is the current Administration trying to make birth control harder to come by?

Trump jeopardizes progress in reducing teen pregnancy and abortion rates


Teen birth rates have been cut in half over the last decade, which is beneficial not only to young women but to Americans as a whole. The decline is attributed to public health outreach and better use of contraception.

President Donald Trump has put that access to contraception in jeopardy with his rollback of a rule that required employers, with some narrow exceptions, to include contraception, at no cost, in their health insurance plans....

The Trump administration has already quietly cut more than $200 million for ongoing research into the most effective ways to prevent unwanted teen pregnancies, a decision most likely driven by ideology rather than science.

Three-quarters of U.S. teen pregnancies are unplanned and nearly a third end in abortion, which is much higher than the overall abortion rate of 14.6 percent. That’s the lowest rate since 1973, the year of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

Teen pregnancy has multi-generational consequences. Only half of teen mothers receive a high school diploma by age 22, compared with 90 percent of women who do not give birth as teens.

The children of teenage mothers also are more likely to drop out of high school. In addition, they are more likely to have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as teenagers, and face unemployment as young adults.

I had no idea Trump was President prior to this year.

President Donald Trump has put that access to contraception in jeopardy with his rollback of a rule that required employers, with some narrow exceptions, to include contraception, at no cost, in their health insurance plans....

Teens have full access to birth control.

Government does not belong in our bedrooms.