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It is about "choice". If you choose to have sex, you should choose to have sex with a person that will be a responsible father to the possible child. If you don't "want" a child, prepare, prepare, and prevent. Once you get pregnant, you should be prepared, prepared, and ready. If you are not "ready", then don't have sex, or have sex where you cannot get pregnant taking preventative measures (know that the person you lay down with will be sharing all the previous lovers' germs with you also, that could be passed to your children of the future, if you want them, and if you are having sex, there is a CHANCE you will get pregnant). To tell an employer that they are responsible for your health care, because you are now pregnant shows very poor planning (being prepared).
Blah, blah, blah...
Okay, you see, here's the thing. Because America INSISTED that health care be handled through employers rather than a single-payer universal system, yeah, that DOES obligate employers.
And frankly, I really have to honestly wonder what kind of person you are that you think that people can just totally control their sexual urges. "Ummm, before we go to bed, can I run a credit check on you?"
If you want your "employer" to cover the cost of child birth and "family leave" then get a job with such an employer "before" you choose to do actions that could cause a pregnancy. There are plenty of employers that are willing to do that (usually the job is not as interesting, and may pay less, due to the amount of benefits not offered by smaller businesses), so there is really no excuse to blame the employer. Many people will plan for child birth, without insurance. They figure out what it will cost, and make payments to the doctor in advance or arrangement for a payment plan afterwards. The "wife" may quit her job (take unpaid "leave"), until the parents "choose" to make arrangements for another to care for the child, so the wife can go back to work, possibly lasting years.
You work on the bizarre assumption that these couples who are waiting a couple years into the marriage to have a baby are really not having sex. Ummmm... nope. they are using contraception, and when contraception fails, they have abortions. About 16% of abortions are performed on married women.
To your other "point", the two women I worked with who were fired by my douchebag boss probably had good reason to think that they'd be covered.
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Again, I fail to see why encouraging young people to make the "best" choices regarding their sex life is such an issue with liberals (you have no problem telling them not to smoke, not to live a sedimentary life, how many times a week they should exercise, and what foods they should not eat, how much they should drink of "sugary drinks"). Why is that? You want to claim that you don't want to interfere with peoples' lives, but you do, in EVERY other area of their lives, except sex. In that area, you "preach" that people have no control over themselves when it comes to sex, and everyone should just "accept" that as a "fact".
Big difference between telling someone they shouldn't do something (which liberals spends a lot of money teaching safe sex and contraception to prevent abortions. More than worthless ass absitence only education.) and trying to outlaw something. If we were trying to BAN smoking, have required excercise, etc... you might be making a valid analogy.
You jokers just don't want to tell people abortion is a bad idea (which I would kind of agree with), but that they can't have them, even if they were raped or they are about to give birth to a severely deformed child.
Maybe children wouldn't be having sex if adults were honest about the consequences of having casual sex or having a child with a man that you do not respect and do not want involved in your child's life, how hard it is to raise a child with two parents that care, never mind one, with no additional support; how that child is more likely to end up living in poverty, getting into trouble, and not graduating high school, because someone told you that sex would be fun, and you would not get pregnant....
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You don't think that we already don't spend BILLIONS telling kids that?
And at the end of the day, it goes in one ear and out the other. The problem with most adults is that they either forget what they were like as teens or they remember all too well....