A Peek

Saturday 15 December 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

A peek under the mask of Women’s Health™:

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), whose name is often mentioned as a potential 2016 presidential candidate, penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that calls for contraception to be made available over-the-counter.

If women could buy birth control without a prescription, he argues, employers would not have to pay for it against their moral objections, and Democrats could no longer accuse Republicans of being anti-birth control.

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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently came to the same conclusion: that birth control is safe enough that it should not require a prescription. However, making contraception available over the counter would require women to pay for it out of pocket, whereas the Affordable Care Act currently requires that it be covered under most insurance plans with no co-pay.

The feminist horde cares not about having safe, easy, red-tape-less, cheap access to birth control pills available at every pharmacy and grocery store in the country without also having to incur the cost of a doctor: they want others to pay for their lifestyle choices.

2012-12-15  »  madlibertarianguy