FOX: "Anybody" can afford birth control

[kpete]

FOX's GUTFELD: This makes no sense to me. There are two elements that kinda drive me crazy here: The decision is supposed to help make birth control affordable to millions. How much more affordable can you make it? It's like 50 bucks a month. I mean, do we -- should we start up like a "buy the pill" campaign? Like "feed the children" where we make sure we all adopt one woman and pay for her pills? Anybody can afford this.

video & more:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201202080001

[KatyMan]

1. Mind boggling...

And they call liberals elitists

[JustAnotherGen]

2. This same

f*ckwit will scream and yell about teen pregnancy rates in two weeks. Let's start the countdown now. . . and I'm calling him a f*ckwit because I earn well into six figures a year and I couldn't imagine paying for my Loestrin each month if I made $24K a year. He's got to be kidding me right?


And I've already given you a few hearts kpete and I'm not giving you anymore hearts for getting me po'd at Faux. So there!

[kpete]

3. nice mid day

laugh for me

thank you JustAnotherGen,
peace, kpete

[Fla Dem]

5. Yes, or crapping on people on welfare who keep having kids. n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Oh that's next

No doubt! No doubt! They have ZERO need to make sense!

[DCKit]

4. What an out-of-touch dipshit. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. For many people, $50 a month is a lot of money.

It's a tank of gas, it's lunches for you or your kids, it's any number of things. If you're unemployed it's an especially big hit. For some overpaid nitwit at Faux "News" it's just pocket change. It's a week's worth of lattes at Starbuck's, or a bottle of good wine at a nice restaurant with their nitwit pals. But many of the 99% it's more than they have to spare.

So some of these women get pregnant and can't afford to support a child, can't get an abortion because either they can't afford it or they don't have access because some nutter blew up the last PP clinic within 500 miles, and then what? Public assistance has been slashed to the bone, so they can't get prenatal care, can't get help with food or health care when the kid is born (no help for you when you're no longer a fetus!), no housing, no shelter.

What clueless, heartless idiots.

[Tansy_Gold]

7. Don't forget the cost of the doctor visit to get the prescription

Could be $100, $200. Throw in any routine tests they want to do before writing the prescription. It adds up. It all adds up.

[Scootaloo]

9. I saw that number and my jaw dropped

Even though I could probably afford such a cost (having a Y chromosome means I'll probably never need to find out, of course) I was raised in a family that certainly COULDN'T afford fifty bucks a month; that would have been a full eighth of the monthly income. Let's see, does mom pay the power bill and risk another mouth to feed, or do we go without running water for a while?

These people are so detached from reality that it boggles my mind

[nobodyspecial]

10. Only people who can afford it

should be allowed to have sex. Next, stop, mandatory sterilization for those below the poverty line.

[Beaverhausen]

11. many women take BC pills for medical reasons and not simply for birth control

but of course these men know everything about it. assholes.