If you don't want birth control...DON'T GET BIRTH CONTROL. Can it really be any simpler than that?

[Hugabear]

"You know, morally I'm opposed to birth control. But now that my insurance company is mandated by law to offer it, I just don't see any choice! Guess we'll have to start using birth control now!"

[Lint Head]

1. When I see this discussed on CNN or MSNBC it just galls me when the interviewer doesn't say that.

I'm starting to believe that one of the requirements to being a reporter or news talking head you have to be as dense as matter right before the Big Bang. (or a brick)

It must a be a requirement for the job.

[marybourg]

2. Only when talking to the rite wing.

When interviewing a Democrat the "liberal" media can be stiletto sharp. I notice this on NPR, since that's what I listen to.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. Some people don't want others to have access to birth control

It's not just about making a personal choice not to use it for them.

Somehow they feel they have a religious right to deny coverage of birth control to others.

[pacalo]

4. That's the way I see it, too. They are trying to impose their religious beliefs on others by making

this a political issue.

[MANative]

7. Yup. This. n/t

[earthside]

5. No it cannot be any simpler.

Frankly, I think the reason the bishopric of the Roman church takes the position it does on this is because they will ultimately find out that 90+ percent of Catholics they employ use birth control, and/or have had tubal ligations and/or vasectomies.

What a blow to their self-importance if it becomes an empirical fact that their own flock directly goes against this critical church dogma.

If this were really about freedom of religion, then what you say would be ultimately true: Catholics are not being forced by anyone to use insurance-covered birth control.

Of course, it is also true that if the hierarchy of the Roman church does not want to ever pay for insurance-covered birth control, then they can just stay strictly in the church business ... and get out of any business or organization they run that hires from the general public, that is accessible to the general public and that benefits from taxpayers' dollars.

[Southerner]

6. One point missing in this thread so far...

...is conversatives are opposed to being forced to PAY for other people's birth control. Of course, what's the cost of a condom versus the cost of a birth?

[hfojvt]

8. presumably many people having sex would still use condoms or the pill

even if I was not helping them to pay for it.

[MANative]

9. That's what some of them argue. Others, however, have taken it further...

Santorum has said that he'd like to have the states decide whether contraception should be "legal" and Ron Paul has echoed that stance. R-Money recently jumped on that bandwagon, IIRC.

Like you, I question the basic logic in paying for contraception versus paying for pregnancy and childbirth expenses, to say nothing of the $250k plus that it costs to raise a child to age 18 these days. Is Santorum going to pay for that for all the millions of babies who would be born as a result of contraception being declared illegal? 'Cause people sure aren't going to stop having sex, and the "rhythm method" was discredited a century ago. Can't tell you how much I abhor the stupidity....

[Louisiana1976]

10. K&R