So what is your problem with contraceptives being provided by insurance companies?
I don't have a problem with insurance companies providing contraception. I have a problem with insurance companies being FORCED to provide contraception. If they choose to voluntarily contract with a person or a business for insurance that pays for contraception great. It's when the government says "You have to provide this" even if both parties don't want it that there is a problem.
So, you don't have a problem with the unfairness of the insurance companies? They provide Viagra but unless forced won't provide contraceptives?
And what do you mean "both parties don't want it"? Just because the insurance company provides it doesn't mean you are forced to take it.
Condoms aren't that expensive.
If that is what you prefer to use that is your choice, but you don't get to dictate to everyone else what they need to use.
Well most people like hot tubs too. That doesn't mean we have the government force every construction company to install a hottub when they build a house and then not charge the money necessary to pay for it.
Yeah, but people having hot tubs isn't making your taxes go up because you are having to subsidize them - more unwanted babies, especially to poor women means more Welfare. I thought righties didn't like welfare? Or, are you going to say, tough luck to them, after some of you have declared unending love for them?
Youre telling me that women can't choose not to have sex rather than insist their partner wear a condom and yet they can choose to have an abortion without getting all the information available?
Why is it the woman's responsibility? It takes two to tango, both parties need to decide what needs to be done. And, you keep insisting that abortions are just for the sake of birth control. Are you okay with a raped woman being forced to carry the child of a rapist? You don't want insurance companies to be "forced" to provide contraceptives, but you're okay with women being "forced" to carry the child of a rapist.
Interesting.
Personally, I've never found women that weak.
I have no idea what this comment is supposed to mean.
The fact that you don't even try to understand the actual position of others doesn't make them hypocrites. It just demonstrates that you need to stop creating straw men to attack.
You are the one that doesn't seem to understand the actual position of others. You want everyone to subscribe to your way.
Afraid of sex? How did you reach that ridiculous conclusion?
Republicans are against contraceptives, they are against abortions, and they preach abstinence, now figure it out.
Insurance companies provide whatever they contract to provide. You act like all insurance policies are the same and have to cover the same things. Which is one of the problems with the left. They want a one size fits all solution to what they percieve to be a problem. The free market allows people to find an insurance policy that address there needs and wants.
Ha,ha, since when did you tell an insurance company what they need to cover? You righties live in a fantasyland. Of course, insurance companies are going to try to cover as little as they can get away with and charge you as much as they can, but not so, with Obamacare.
I don't care if my insurance company provides for viagra. It's not something I would negotiate with them about. But if it was that important to me and one company wouldn't provide it, i would merely shop around until I either found one that would cover that, or I would merely purchase the viagra myself. That's what happens when we have liberty. Likewise if it was against my beliefs to use viagra, I would be free to negotiate a contract that didn't cover viagra and I wouldn't have to pay for those benefits.
But you are not everybody. How can women negotiate when none of the insurance companies carry them, that is, until Obamacare.
There are some people and groups that don't believe in using birth control. Why on earth should they be forced into a contract to pay for bith control coverage they don't want? Why should any two parties be forced into a contract that neither intended nor wanted to make?
They are going to be paying less, when Obamacare goes into effect, so having contraceptives is not going to make a difference. They don't have to get them, that's all.
The only thing that scares me about this conversation is the fact that I have to explain the fundamental concepts behind contractual agreements, namely the voluntariness of the agreement. This concept shouldn't be foreign to any American.
What you don't seem to understand is that Insurance Companies had us by the balls. They could cover as little as they wanted, and you could go around and try to negotiate, but if one company didn't cover it, most others weren't going to either, so negotiating wasn't going to make a difference.
It's like credit companies, if the government hadn't stepped in and enforced some regulations, they could charge you $100 for a late payment, or raise your interest X 100 times. It's not so much about voluntariness when they have the upper hand and consumers are helpless against them.