to the boys who want to make decisions on birth control provisions in the insurance provided by employers (NOT paid for by taxpayers, that is not even in this debate) which is also deducted from the employee's paycheck:
FACT: your religion has nothing to do with my health. if you were muslim, you could not force me to fast during ramadan. you cannot force me to participate in meatless fridays during lent. americans kick and scream about "my eating habits are my choice," "i can smoke all i want to and you can't make me stop," and "insurance companies have no right to deny me benefits from my poor health choices," but you think you can deny this responsible choice based on religion?
FACT: none of you boys have ever felt the misery of rotating slowly on a cheese grater from the inside, exhausted and achy, while being mocked to keep up. birth control is used to help ease a variety of menstrual symptoms such as pain and control of blood loss, which can be dangerous. oh, you don't like hearing about girlie insides? is it yucky? put on your big girl panties and keep reading. you started this.
FACT: birth control medications cover a wide spectrum of female medical treatment plans, ONE of them being birth control. they are used to moderate hormones. they are used in conjunction with migraine treatments. birth control medications help prevent osteoporosis, heart disease, ovarian cancer, and the development of ovarian cysts. i am sure there are other uses about which i am not aware. when you eliminate birth control medications from my treatment options, you are now denying my right to accessible medical prevention plans, which have nothing to do with babies.
FACT: birth control is expensive and must be used consistently, every day of the menstrual cycle (ooh, a yucky word again) EVEN WHEN I AM NOT GETTING MY BOOTS KNOCKED. i take a pill every day because i am responsibly taking my medicine. birth control is not like viagra, where you pop it only when you need it.
FACT: you want insurance to block birth control because it is ungodly, but want to keep the meds to give you erections more easily. how about you go *pray* for that erection instead? lemme know how that works out for you. on that same note, the surest (and cheapest and least regulate-able) form of birth control is abstinence. isn't your viagra negating that? how about your wives just abstain until you come to your senses?
FACT: for those who still think this is about taxpayer dollars paying for birth control (which it is not): maryland taxpayers pay for my birth control every day. i got my tubes tied in 2003 while on medical assistance because it was the responsible thing to do after the birth of my fourth child. thanks, maryland. i enjoy my birth control and even your insurance plan revisions can't take that now. :D
