A Government Threat to Birth Control
Sen. Hillary Clinton and other advocates of women's rights say a planned regulation could cut access to contraception
Reader Comments
Amazed at Ruben Haddad
Wow that has got to be the most ignorant statement I've ever witnessed. You should consult a good friend named Websters Dictionary. Do you know the true definition of a witch? Do you even know what murder is? The people you pointed out don't fit those descriptions at all. You should really get proper information about these claims before you make statements like that. Otherwise, the insult isn't effective at all if the words don't apply.
By the way, what difference does it make what her last name means? Either that's her family name or the name she married into. Why should she be ashamed of that? If you have a true issue with her last name then be grateful that your last name is ?Haddad? instead.
I'd appreciate it if you'd prove a VALID point. And the point has to be about the article in question.
I believe that the point in which life begins is highly controversial and differs for each person. I just think this is all rather ridiculous and I pray that our government is wise enough to throw this out.
I have a bright future ahead of me. I look forward to going to college and yes, I take birth control. I will not bring a child into this world if I am not be able to support it. Now, what kind of life would that be for my child if I were to get pregnant as an age where i have no means of income ? I look to the quality of life and I simply cannot provide for a child. I think children should be brought into a situation in which they can be cared for entirely. So that they may grow up secure and healthy. I cannot do this at this stage in life.
Some are forgetting something quite simple: We are entitled to individual rights. If it is my body, shouldn't I be able to decide what happens to it? I think I'm well qualified to make that decision, wouldn't you?
Hillary Clinton is a witch and a murderer
As is Pelosi and the rest of the feminazis.
Kotz means vomit, you should consider changing it to something nicer.
why are pro-life doctors being given special privileges?
Professionals of other careers are required to sign documents, in accordance with their licensing boards, that require them to refer clients to other practitioners when they themselves cannot or will not be able to provide that client with the services the client is seeking.
Why are doctors and other medical professionals being allowed to be exempt from this?
Because it isn't doctors (for the most part) that want this option to opt-out. Its pro-life legislators who want to enforce their values on others.
Any self-actualized medical student would surely be able to examine their values and beliefs during their educational period to see if they align with the skills it takes to perform their future professions. You'd have to be asleep or incompetent to be a medical student and assume you won't have to do things, in the future, that may make you question your values. But if you're also a GOOD DOCTOR, then you recognize that practicing medicine ISN'T ABOUT YOU. ITS ABOUT THE CLIENT.
I'm a social worker. I have to work with clients ALL THE TIME who express sentiments that offend me. Its part of the job. If it REALLY offends me, then I don't work with that population. Period.
Don't become an OB/GYN if you don't want to fulfill women's reproductive needs. ALL OF THEM.
It's about THEM. Its not about you and your values.
And remember what Rose Kennedy said: "If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
Big Brother wants to stop Contraception
When my girls were 14 and 16 I told them that I would take them to Planned Parenthood for birth control pills.Eventually, they took me up on it. I took them to the family OB/GYN for a prescription. Don't take this opportunity away from mothers and daughters.
Stop MEN from controlling WOMEN's lives. They want to go back to the dark ages.
It's already here
The "threat" to birth control is the five Catholics already sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court----four and a half of them thoroughly conservative.
Back at ya!
Actually, my parents did teach me to fullfill my obligations, which is why I have had to make sure that I can provide for myself before I drag anybody else into it. That's common sense. And I'm all for introducing higher taxes to this selfserving country - If only they'd use the money to pay for good teachers and facilities, build healthy infrastructure for every population strata, regulate employers to rise above raw profit hunger and pay above minimum wage as well as cover healthcare, resuscitate federal boosters such as Workers Comp so that nurses are not afraid to voice injuries out of fear of losing their jobs... Just to name a few. But, no - the economy is so taxed out due to useless research and the funding of a futile war far away that it just "cannot" fix what's wrong here. Circumstance? Sane decisions are made with deliberation, not by default. You are simply delusional if you believe that America is really truely the land of individual success. It IS indeed the responsibility of every government to ensure sustainable living for its citizens. I, myself, strive to create a world that is worth populating. What do you do?
CA, did your parents really never teach you that you cannot wait to fulfill your obligations after someone else fulfills theirs? And since when is the government responsible for providing all of those things for us? Those responsibilities do not lie with the government, but with individuals. I am responsible for making sure that my family and I have a roof, food, medicine, education and a job to pay for it all. Sometimes the government allocates funds that help individuals in those areas, but that does not make it their responsibility, merely their charity.
In Response...
First of all, Peter, death is not universally defined as the moment of brain death. It can also be defined as the cessation of heart and lung function (w/o these the brain can function for up to 13 hours). In many non-westernized cultures, death has even looser definitions. Death is not universally defined- it's just not argued about as loudly.
CA, did your parents really never teach you that you cannot wait to fulfill your obligations after someone else fulfills theirs? And since when is the government responsible for providing all of those things for us? Those responsibilities do not lie with the government, but with individuals. I am responsible for making sure that my family and I have a roof, food, medicine, education and a job to pay for it all. Sometimes the government allocates funds that help individuals in those areas, but that does not make it their responsibility, merely their charity.
Lon, if it were only a theoretical fertilized egg, then why would anyone choose to flood their body with hormones to get rid of it? People treat medical issues based on a reasonable certainty that they NEED the treatment. Making it theoretical just makes every woman that takes it (and you, you lucky unique man) into and idiot.
Joe, contraception is not a moral evil. The use of it can be, but the object alone is amoral.
Katie, that's ridiculous. You can't say that our government is there to protect our freedoms and then say that the freedom of those who believe differently than you is something no one cares about. Religious people have freedom too. That's kind of why America protects freedom- that's why people moved here in the first place- because they didn't want to be forced to be Anglicans.
Erica, I fail to understand your reasoning. Why should we only allow women seeking contraception to have freedom over their own lives and bodies. Shouldn't the doctors, nurses, and pharmacists have the freedom to decide what to do with their own lives and bodies (handing you a pill vs. not)? Why is it only women who want these forms of birth control who should be allowed freedom?
Angry Woman, birth control is a very distinct thing from safe
childbirth, Viagra, Cialis, and other reproductive health medications. It is absurd to classify them together in the way that you have. This bill is not intended to "stick it to women" and make life harder for them. It's there to protect the freedom of the doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. It's not about someone trying to squash your fun.
To Joe of NJ:
...the man, growing used to the prospect of a continuously pregnant mate, may finally lose respect for the woman and, no longer caring for her physical and psychological equilibrium, may come to the point of considering her as a mere instrument of reproducing his genetics as well as instrument of selfish enjoyment, and no longer as his respected and beloved companion" (HIV 17).
Indeed, recent studies reveal a far greater divorce rate in marriages in which contraception is regularly practiced than in those marriages where it is not. The logical conclusion is that people who are opposed to contraception are also opposed to divorce.
Myself, personally, i had the IUC Mirena implanted right after i had my first child, and let me tell you its the best thing ive ever done. i dont believe that abortions are right, but i am prochoice...its a womans body, its a womans cells that are affected. i am outraged that this joke of an administration is trying to impose their insane hard right views on the majority of a nation that cant stand them anyway. who do they think they are????? if this goes through, then they may as well do away with safe childbirth, as well as Viagra, Cialis, and any other drug that can get a man hard. why dont they get rid of all reproductive health medications all together? i am tired....so very tired of hearing about stuff like this. what will these idiots come up with next?
