Name:   copperline - Subject:   Sandra Fluke's quote Date:   3/4/2012 4:32:58 PM

Come on!     Contraceptives should be available thru any medical insurance plan that covers medications…it’s a critical health issue that effects huge numbers women (and men!).     Providing access to those contraceptives is far less expensive (or damaging) than an unwanted pregnancy or an abortion.  Also, i don’t see how making birth control available thru health insurance falls on the back of ‘we the tax-payers’. …that’s just wrong.    

The cost of those meds is not even noticeable to insurance companies….health insurers would gladly pay a few cents per pill rather than be obligated to expensive prenatal care, childbirth and maternity costs.   Fewer pregnancies in a benefit  group  translates into lower premiums for the employers and employees, as well as enhancing their bottom line.      This is a public health issue and doesn’t compromise anyone’s rights …. you don’t have to use birth control unless you choose to….. it benefits  insurance corporations, employers, lowers health care costs, and  ultimately helps everyone.     Birth control should be as available under insurance plans just as penicillin and flu shots.   How could you not want this?

The subtext here is the Conservative agenda regarding abortion that creeps toward a warped moral agenda about extramarital sex.   Silly.    Opposing birth control while attempting to criminalize abortion means iNCREASiNG the number of young women who become accidentally pregnant and puts them in a huge dilemma….forcing them to have children they don’t want & can’t care for.  Why would you want to do this?  

Limbaugh’s slurs are reprehensible.    This was not some welfare mother he has complained about in the past,  she’s a law student at one of the most prestigious schools in the country.   An accidental pregnancy could end her legal career & completely alter her ability to control the outcomes of her life.   Her comments were spot-on and far more thoughtful than her detractors.    

You can be a talk show host if you are a felon, but you can’t become a lawyer.  Forging prescriptions or obtaining narcotics without a Rx is a felony.   is  Limbaugh a junkie or anti-social degenerate for getting busted using illegal oxycontin?        Some icon of virtue this is…..  really…. just a showman pandering to the base instincts of his audience.