Senator: Birth-Control Coverage "An Assault on Freedom"
Today's outrageous comment award, birth-control edition, goes to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
The senator is backing a bill that would allow any boss to deny his employees coverage of birth control--even though 99 percent of American women (including 98 percent of Catholic women) use birth control at some point in their lives.
Sen. Johnson called President Obama's policy ensuring that all women can get contraceptive coverage without a copay "just the tip of the iceberg" in "an assault on freedom."
He also dismissed insurance coverage of birth control as unnecessary:
Nobody is taking away women's health-care benefits. Any woman in America can get free contraceptives if they can't afford to pay for them through county health services, through a variety of places. This is about an assault on freedom.
Oh, really? Any woman can get free contraceptives? Nobody's taking away their health-care benefits?
Let's take a trip down memory lane to, say, last spring.
That's when the U.S. Senate twice rejected attempts to eliminate the Title X family-planning program, defund Planned Parenthood, and generally take away women's health-care benefits.
And guess who voted for defunding Planned Parenthood and eliminating Title X?
Indeed, the distinguished gentleman from Wisconsin, Mr. Johnson.
So, yes, women do have access to birth control--but only because Sen. Johnson's attempts to take it away were foiled.
How does the senator propose that women get birth control if their insurance refuses to cover it and community family-planning programs are eliminated?
Call his office in Milwaukee at (414) 276-7282 and ask him!
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BarackObama, Birth control, birth control, birthcontrol, contraception, no-cost birth control, Obama administration, Planned Parenthood, Ron Johnson, Title X, Wisconsin,
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The Right wants to allow people with religious beliefs to not have to pay for things their religions doesn't support. Last time I looked the Catholic Church barred birth control, they also ban divorce. So I would like to see a law passed that would bar Catholics from getting divorce. I would like to see someone offer this up as an amendment to every Bill that comes up banning birth control.
I'm glad to FINALLY hear someone talking about this contraceptives insurance offer as the defense and protection of women's freedom. Freedom to choose! The Catholic Church is oppressive to women -- always has been. They are not satisfied with the President Obama's solution because it gives women a CHOICE. It's impossible to oppress women who are free to make their own decisions and free to make their own choices. Of course Catholic Bishops are bucking the solution. I knew they would. (I was raised catholic and attended catholic schools). The solution gives EVERYONE a choice: Catholic Bishops and Tea Parties are free to practice religion of their choosing and have a choice not to participate ... or (individually secretively and discretly)TO; women have a choice to participate ... or NOT; and Insurance Companies that do not want to offer contraceptives free of charge ... have a choice to stay off the exchange and sell their policies elsewhere. It's a win, win, win for EVERYBODY -- except ANTI-CHOICE, ANTI-FREEDOM, and ANTI-WOMAN!!
Blow it out your as- you idiot.