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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Obamacare: Friend or Foe?

My wonderful boyfriend (Happy 9 months yesterday by the way! Even though we're 5 hours apart and I was super sick and gross all day!) sent me a text saying that by August 1st of next year all birth control would be free, with no copay. This also includes:



  • women's well visits (which I'm assuming is the PC way of describing the horror that is the gynocologist's office)
  • HPV and other STD screenings
  • breast pump rentals
  • domestic violence screenings
  • testing for gestational diabetes
  • the morning after pill (*inserts gasps of horror here*)
So, I for one think this is fabulous. Right now I'm paying $15 a month for birth control. Which, no is not breaking the bank, but come on. I'm a student making $8 an hour hosting and bussing tables at a restaurant and trying to save money so that I don't have to live on Ramen when I graduate in December and have to find a job in this GLORIOUS economy...

But, alas, the Right Wing is PISSED. It's like they have a whole bunch of ridiculous scare tactic metaphors that they just wait to use on FOXNews. Here are some fun ones I found by this woman Sandy Rios who I'm now happily Googling:

Why in the world would you encourage your daughters, and your granddaughters, and whoever else comes behind you to have unrestricted, unlimited sex anytime …”

Why does needing birth control = being a big slutty slut? If you have ONE sex partner for your WHOLE LIFE there's still a huge risk in getting pregnant. Someone needs to give Sandy a "birds and the bees" talk again. I don't think she got it the first time. Also, there are many MARRIED people who use birth control. You know, because everybody can't be super cool like the Duggars... And people who don't have sex use birth control too for acne, cramps, etc.

Yes, I am well aware that some people are flaming morons who are unaware of the whole concept of "you probably shouldn't have a baby when you have no money." But, call me Suzy Sunshine, I really think that most people are trying to do the best they can. 

She also said, in this same clip, “In Red China, they have this down to a science. The local health care centers make women come in every month to be examined to see if they’ve had their cycle to make sure they are taking their medication and if they have a baby they are roundly punished, if they have an extra baby that baby is aborted. That is the control we’re moving toward.”

Who said who to what now? So, let me try to get this straight. YOU as a Right Wing, anti-abortion woman, think that it's your right to tell people they shouldn't be having sex and you don't want to pay for any of it, BUT making birth control free is the same as FORCED ABORTION? Just because something is free doesn't mean you're forcing the person to take it... I wish politicians would stop comparing apples to oranges.

"We’re $14 trillion in debt and now we’re going to cover birth control, breast pumps, counseling for abuse? Are we going to do pedicures and manicures as well?

Honestly, this woman makes me sick. She's comparing DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COUNSELING to a PEDICURE?!? Are you kidding? Helping someone get out of an abusive relationship and a beauty treatment? I hope someone shoves that comment down her throat if someone she cares about gets raped or abused. I can't even say anything intelligent about this because it's just ridiculous. 

I think if you're trying to get someone to agree with you you probably shouldn't say things that are extremely, horribly offensive to 90% of the population. But...maybe that's just me.

Oh, and just one more from my mother's favorite, Bill O'Rielly. "Most women who get pregnant are blasted out of their minds when they have sex. They're not going to use birth control anyway."

Well, Bill, all I have to say to this is: The only way any woman would have sex with YOU after that is if they were blasted out of their minds. Because you're an asshole :)

2 comments:

  1. I still can't get over just how good this news is. And the fact that it's coming at a time when so many state legislators are pushing back (often unconstitutionally) against the rights of women to birth control and abortions means it's inevitably going to really stick in the craw of the anti-woman right.

    The thing that I love the most about that Bill Oh Really quote is that it also reflects that he has absolutely zero understanding about how women's contraception works. He literally thinks you take the pill like you use a condom, which is so ignorant it's almost cute in a really infantile way.

    What's worse about Sandy Rios's statements isn't just that he ignorance is so self-reflexively sexist; she's so classist about it, too. She's wealthy enough that she can easily afford every single one of the things that Obamacare covers. But if you can't afford it, it's your fault for being a lazy welfare whore who is also asking for it.

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  2. P.S. Sorry for the double post, but two months ago you made a post complaining about how expensive contraception is. It's like Obama is your fairy godfather who heard your cries and has now taken all those expenses and turned them into a beautiful gown and chariot to the Ball and Prince Free Contraception's palace.

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