No, I don't think they should....Since when is it the task of the government to decide how many pregnancies there should be?
The government doesn't tell anyone how many babies they can have, but it does provide services for those who can't afford it, for women's health care needs, and birth control devices or pills are a part of that....it is solely up to the individual on when to choose to have a child....
I suppose the perk for the government is if the mother chooses to plan her children, she will be more financially responsible when deciding the time of her own pregnancy, and not just deliver one baby after another that the Government will end up subsidizing with other welfare programs for the next 18 years of the child's life.
Again, it is not the role of the government to fund this. Do you feel the government should fund all adoptions, in vitro fertilizations, programs that encourage mothers to have more children, etc?
As I have mentioned the US gvt is so in to do do already and it is simply impossible to change things overnight that took 70 years to put in place without chaos and without seriously harming people in some cases....I don't wear blind folds, I know what is going on, but I also know that everything that needs to be done with cuts, will have consequences that will befall us all and think that we need to KNOW what those consequences will be before we make any rash moves.
We've dug a hole so deep, that the sides can cave in on us with any move we make trying to get out of it.
as example, the Private Health care industry has been subsidized for many many decades, by our federal, State and even some times even local taxes....hospitals with payments for the indigent, hospital expansions, health insurance by allowing a deduction for it, and allowing businesses to deduct these costs as well, and grants given to medical schools and nursing schools, and grants for Medical research and development, and grants or special loans given to medical students and nursing students and laboratory technician students, and with programs such as Medicare, and the Medicare Pill Bill, and Medicaid, and Chips for children's health care, and Lab grants, and Pharma guidelines and pharma research and development grants....and I am certain I have missed a gazillion other things our gvt is spending on or giving tax incentives on.... in this industry.....And I am NOT necessarily knocking all of these programs....
but what I am trying to say is that turning back now is near impossible....especially for the poorer women who utilize planned parenthood for their medical needs....
Prices in the market place for medical care are out of whack, with the money that poor or middle class families take in...
I can certainly recognize that "the free market" has not been functioning to lower prices because of all of our government's involvement in so many many many different areas of the industry....there's been no reason for them to worry about raising prices all these years, because they had a guaranteed customer, with the US and State gvts, with only minor constraints on increases.
Due to this, these lower middle class women, and poorer women can not afford the unnaturally inflated prices that are in the "market" for the necessary services they need....basically-'they would be put out on to the street with no where to go', and none of this was truly their doing. (and sorry, this someone with the handle of Care4all, just can't accept that)
Hind site is 20/20, so they say.
So, I am sure you are asking, where do we go from here? And thinking...somebody is going to get hurt sooner or later... but in my mind, who can we hurt the least when trying to get out of this mess....I'd like to see those already hurting in one form or another for no cause of their own regarding this mess, hurt the least...yes a tongue twister, and even more difficult to accomplish than mouth, but still a goal, none the less....
What can be done? Where does the Affordable Care Act fit in? Why accept it or reject it, at this point in time? All valid questions among many others...and all open in my mind to debate, one by one....