Taking birth control is being absolved of your choices now? Better tell that to all the women out there who take it to regulate their periods.
Seriously, why does anyone give a **** about this issue? Of course women should have free access to contraceptives. I mean, unless you love all the awesome things that come with over-population?
Of course you do. You're Conservatives. You think this planet will sustain us forever, and if it doesn't WHO CARES! You'll be long dead before it goes kapow, so why try and minimize our impact on it?
...or people could just not have sex until they can pay for their own preventive measures or until they're ready to have children.
It's called "personal responsibility". I understand it's a foreign concept to you.
Oh, so you have no ******* clue what birth control pills are, or how they're used?
Here's a quick primer:
1. Many women take these pills REGARDLESS OF HOW OFTEN THE **** so they can regulate very painful, often often debilitating menstrual issues. I'm sure most of the women you meet at the Early Birds special at the singles bar are all dried up down there, but many, many women take these pills outside the auspices of sex.
2. People ****, Dave. I know you and your fellow Conservatives don't like to hear this, but regardless of all your hand-wringing and Jesus-fying, people still ****. And the **** a lot. They **** so much that without birth control methods readily available, our population will skyrocket, which leads to rampant poverty, which leads to crime, etc. Population control is a GOOD thing.
3. It's not "personal responsibility" that you're preaching. It's trying to curb natural biological impulses in a completely impossible way. My parents are two of the most devout born-again Conservatives you'll ever meet. And when they were 17 they had sex out of wedlock ON PURPOSE to create a baby so they could go live with each other. They're still together now, by the way 40 years in December. So if we know people are going to do this shit, regardless of their upbringing, why not make the good, healthy, and productive means of stemming population growth available?
I know why...because you're old and out of touch.