Musings on the Arizona Contraceptives Bill...

[brooklynite]

I just had a horrible revelation. This proposed bill to require women to provide a non birth-control medical reason to get coverage from their employer has a gaping loophole: The women that are lucky enough to have a medical condition requiring contraceptive medication will get a bonus: the ability to have as much promicuous sex as they want -- for free!. No shame, no cost or psychological scarring of an unwanted pregnancy! How could the GOP allow this travesty. They better pull the bill and tighten it up...

(AP reports that the Bill is "close to passage&quot

[Skittles]

1. you'd think they'd have that one covered

perhaps they will require lie detector tests to further differentiate the medically-needed and the sluts

[LiberalLoner]

2. I'm sure they will create a bill to sew all said vaginas shut

so that women aren't able to have intercourse without being cut open, like they do with the most extreme female genital mutilation cases. Seems to me that the Repukes would be very very very much pro-FMG types.

[IcyPeas]

4. don't give them any more ideas.

[Fawke Em]

3. If most OB/GYNs are like my doctor (and I suspect

they are or they wouldn't have gone into the profession), most BC pills in AZ will now be prescribed because the woman has - wink, wink, nudge, nudge - "female issues."

Those are the non-specified issues that women and their doctors have long used to evade and avoid pesky laws oft levied upon women to prevent them from being fully human. Other terms included "monthly issues," "delayed cycles," etc.

Those OB/GYNs who are willing to "play the game," will become popular with robust businesses, while those who don't give a fig about their patients' TOTAL well-being will be left for broke.

It's sad that, in this day and age, doctors will have to "play the game" to see that women get the COMPLETE medical care they need, but I predict that will be the case until this stupid law is either knocked down or repealed.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I guess Arizona no longer wants young to middle age people to live there.

Just old, white retirees. Wouldn't that be great? There would no longer be a need to pay for public schools since there won't be any children. Businesses will have to shut down for a lack of workers.
I really can't see anybody except the religious nutcases who will want to live there. Do the Hopi and Navajo Nations have to obey stupid Arizona laws?

[saras]

6. I think you could find a doctor to assert that nymphomania is a non-birth-control medical reason...

...and it would make a damned funny court case.

"It's NOT birth CONTROL. It's birth PREVENTION."

[HockeyMom]

7. Hormone therapy

That is what they called it when I took the Pill at 12 years old in 1960. At that time they didn't even call it the Pill or contraceptive. Hormone therapy can be ANYTHING. My husband has an underactive thyroid. That's hormone therapy. Need insulin? Horomone therapy. The possibilities are endless.