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Are you a muslim/immigrant/woman living in a red state? Do you rely on the public exchanges for health insurance? Did your parents bring you to America when you were a kid over a decade ago and now you're wondering if you'll be able to stay? I mean, my life is about the same too and I look forward to my tax cut just like everyone else, but I *would* figure that life would feel about the same for someone slogging out a cube job at MS.
@Barc: Excellent. I don't want to pay for other people's birth control and condoms. Nor do I want to pay for abortions. If you can't afford it, don't have sex. When did this fundamental shift occur where the promiscuous masses expected taxpayers to pay for their activities?
"If you can't afford a child, don't have sex" is a ridiculous thing to say. FYI:funding adequate birth control directly results in less requirement for terminations, for obvious reasons. Funding neither just results in a) more deaths by coathanger and/or b) greater drains on society funds through funding social services, adoption centres, childcare for low income families, healthcare for poor parents and children. Unless you're arguing that you don't want your taxes to fund anything at all, in which case you can't live in a civilised country, then you're going to have to choose one.
Trump being elected does not give every redneck in Alabama to harm an immigrant, Muslim, or woman.
The fact that you're assuming that people on the poverty line are there because they're "buying daily Starbucks" just shows how ignorant you are of the reality of some peoples' circumstances. I grew up dirt poor, and I've spent at least a year unemployed through no fault of my own. Your option 3 - Medicaid - isn't a valid option because I'm talking about what happens when the government doesn't fund birth control, at the request of @GS1, so that point is moot. I don't know how much time and money you've given personally, but FYI the US is not the most charitable nation when you consider it as a percentage of GDP. Everybody thinks they're generous in the US but the tax level is so low that your concept of charity is skewed. The US barely makes the top 20 of international charity as a % of GDP (0.17% compared to #1 sweden's 1.4% and #6 UK's 0.71%). Pardon me, but the whole American Dream "everyone is successful for their own success" really f's up your worldview.
But at least they won't "took er jerbs!!"
Why on earth should taxpayers pay for your birth control? You don't pay for my condoms.
In the U.K., both condoms and birth control are available to everyone for free on the NHS.
Im fine paying to provide birth control as a public good. Long term overpopulation is huge threat to the survival and acceleration of humanity. VP is uninformed about human nature and public policy, thinking that shifting additional burdens onto individuals (by revoking access to affordable reproductive health services) is an effective way of bringing about a better society. Apparently he missed the main lesson that uncle Ben teaches Peter Parker in Spider-Man; with power comes responsibility. People who are poor and don't have access to health care aren't their own responsibility. They are yours. Because that's how society works. The strong care for the weak. Hopefully you can fortify your surroundings while society crumbles due to shirking your own responsibility to others while ironically accusing them of being irresponsible.
As an LGBT woman I'm a bit concerned about the fact that there's nothing about my rights on the Whitehouse website anymore (yes I know that's how new websites work, but it's still a bit concerning that his 5 current policies are all about being big and strong and military but nothing about equality, rights or support). And I'm also a bit concerned about that sneaky bill introduced about how "human life begins at fertilisation" meaning my termination rights could be restricted - even though me and many friends who are less financially sound than myself seem to be about to have our access to birth control limited. So, not a normal Monday. Go figure.
Also, by the way: planned parenthood, which receives government funding, also cover condoms under birth control and sexual health, and people in the US can get them for free. So, you're wrong.
Well, you can't go in a shop to get condoms and expect not to pay for them because "there're free on the NHS". You have to actually get them from a GP.
Not necessarily a GP @UBS1 - because using up GP time to get condoms, pretty much every district has a sexual health clinic as part of a hospital, doctors surgery, pharmacy or similar where you can just walk in and ask for condoms and they'll hand you a nice big pack of them. Sure, it's less convenient than a shop, but not *that* much less convenient, and you can get like 20 at a time in most places
There are other options 1) use the pull out method 2) have sex with a partner who has resources for b.c 3) go on Medicaid and buy b.c with your plan 4) here's my favorite idea. Learn how to budget so instead of buying daily Starbucks, one allocates the money to fund their own monthly b.c expense.
Lazard1: while I respect your right to disagree. I'm not here to win your vote. US Women are gifted with more than they appreciate. Over population is a problem in developing country not in the US. The US remains the most charitable nation globally because of the generosity of private citizens. Unless you've given as much time, resources and $ as I have to underprivileged communities domestic and abroad, spare me the lecture.
The question of where individual responsibility ends and where responsibility to one's community begins (and ends) is extremely contentious. With many intelligent and conscientious individuals taking opposing positions - I don't have any proprietary moral or ethical knowledge. I don't know how much in terms of resources you have provided to the community but I believe we all prosper through the generosity and decency of private citizens. I believe the gift of life is too much for any of us to appreciate. I don't think lectures do any good in cases of disagreements. Perhaps instead we can both take the time to reflect upon the opposing viewpoint and it's merits. I will go first and think about whether it's fair for the government to compel you by force to assume financial responsibility for others sexual health.
Alright Lazard1, I accept your invitation to reflect and discuss this subject. Just so we are clear, my personal position is counter to the opposing viewpoint I will assume for this discourse. For my part of this discussion, I will reflect and consider the role and financial responsibility of government to provide for its citizens' sexual health.