Nov 11
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Touchy Birth Control Issue Voted Against in MS, Other Birth Control News
Hey guys, Jill here again. A couple issues on the subject of birth control this week came up in the news. Although it is a necessity and prevents the world population from exploding and becoming unsustainable, and gives people the choice on whether to have children in their lives or not, many still hold the belief that life is life and it’s no one’s right to take life away no matter at what stage.
Mississippi just voted no on the a controversial law that would consider any life a life at conception, and had proposed to even go so far as to ban certain forms of birth control. It’s actually pretty fundamentalists for today. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, as long as that opinion doesn’t totally infringe on other’s right to choose – and by the way that is just my opinion, no one else’s while we’re throwing that word around so freely ?
It’s good to see that a law that is this oppressive and has an obvious religious agenda was not approved, especially in a state that many consider to be the heart of the “Bible Belt”. I know that sounds harsh, but that is probably why this law made it to the polls in the first place.
In other news, with the new health reform, a part of it that I actually agree with is that they are saying that health care providers and insurance companies should be providing patients with birth control of all types for free. This would include medical sterilization, ie tubes being tied in women and vasectomies in men as well as various forms of daily or monthly birth control.
This coverage, they say, should also extend to sex education and other programs devoted to improving sexual health and advising people and teens about reproduction and their health – programs that make us stronger as a society.
Other services they are lobbying for insurers to cover fully are other well needed and intended services like education on breast feeding, HIV and other STD testing, and other programs such as this. This is great news, because a lot of people are currently foregoing these types of things now due to cost or because their health insurance company does not fully cover and they don’t want to pay the deductible.
I know for me, personally, I can afford my birth control pills, but that is because I have a great insurance company that only charges me five bucks a month. Would I rather it be fully covered? Sure! That way I really wouldn’t think twice about being on the pill.
