Free Contreception for Women in the USA

There's an article going around stating that contraception could be free under the new health care law.  In this article, there was one particular statement that really stuck out.  Dr. Jeffrey Peipert a principal investigator on the study states, "the shift we need to see in the United States is a shift away from methods like the pill and condoms to the most effective methods, like implants and IUDs." Obviously he's not been in the kinds of situations that women face every single day.  He goes on to say that if someone is willing to pay for it only then will we be able to see that shift.

The Catholic Church doesn't see birth control as a preventive medicine, but more as a lifestyle choice.  Which only says to me that they wouldn't be willing to agree with making contreception available at reduced/no cost fee to women.  My only problem with that is why would the Church -- or any church regardless of religion -- be so inclined to make themselves a part of such a major decision involving a woman's right to choose. 

If we take a look at a woman who is more involved with career  than planning a family, I would think having birth control options available to her covered under her medical health plan would be ideal.  Even married or unmarried couples -- with available birth control options -- can see an opportunity to avoid an unplanned pregnancy especially if the timing just wasn't right.  

We can begin to foster the rights women deserve in having birth control available to them covered under their medical health plans.  The decision shouldn't be something that is argumentative, but rather given great consideration without further thinking through whether or not it is a necessity.  If you really wanted to be that choicy about it, what exactly does the new health law offer?  To be honest about it, I've seen nothing but increased premiums across the board.  My new Cigna health plan removed the hospital stay coverage going from $0 dollars to $500 per stay out of pocket, and happily compares that to a vacation stay at a hospital.  Excuse me, but there is no comparison.

Yes, I believe there can be a shift in lowing the rate of unplanned pregnancies.  And I believe that revolutionizing the birth control industry to move in that direction is vital.  If it is used consistently and correctly and the cost factor is removed, then yeah, we can begin to see a change.  How dramatic a chance we will see can only be governed by an over-time factor because the rate reduction will not be noticeable right away.

We are still stuck in the reality where these decisions have to have a Government ruling.  It's still the Government telling women what they can and cannot do, and what is and is not right for them.  These so called advocating groups have no compassion protesting against a woman's right to choose.  My whole thing is this, say a woman is raped and becomes pregnant, and was never on any kind of birth control for whatever reasons. Should be forced to keep a child conceived out of rape? Or does she have the right to abort that child?  Does she have the right to give it up for adoption? One would think the decision is all hers.  Whether we restrict the available funds to use to operate these clinical resources to be made available to women, it does not solve the problem.  Whereas you make birth control available to women regardless of their lifestyle, and we can probably see a shift in this area, too.

To me the whole process is going to be treated with a double edged sword because there really isn't going to be no right or wrong answers here as long as Government holds the floor.  I'd be interested in hearing the panel discussions and the arguments that are going to be delivered in favor of this cause.

Parents of sexually active daughters face the harsh reality of determining at what age should they put their daughter(s) on birth control methods. Let's keep in mind that long-term use can create other health issues, not limited to, fibroid tumors. And there's the whole market of deciding which birth control method is the right one to use, especially with all these birth control options that seem to keep popping up every where you look around.

If I were in the senate I would vote to go forward with offering free/no cost or reduced rates birth control pills covered under medical health plans. The Catholic Church should have absolutely no say in this matter because they are a bunch of screwed up individuals anyway who want to control women rights anyway, so to hell with them -- and I'm not speaking against the Church as a whole, but at some point Church has no functioning power of a woman's deciding right to pregnancy, whether she aborts that child or gives it up for adoption, or keeps it. A woman's right is what it is. A woman's right. Take a woman's right and what do you have? One problem after another.

Let there be a fair decision, and for once and for all, Government and Church regardless of religion should have no say in a woman's right.  But this is just my opinion.  You can read the entire article by going to Yahoo News and post your comments.