Counterpoint

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/HealthandC


Above- a video of the Georgetown Law Student who didn't get to testify to the Republican run committee speaks her peace at another event Pelosi, Holmes-Norton and two other Congresspeople set up just for her. Worth listening to in full.


They might rename the US Planned Pharmaland- because according to this - everyone should be on drugs and shame on the government or someone for not paying for all mine. Ridiculous. I went to Georgetown law school and I wouldn't in a million years expect that the school should approve paying for contraception or abortofascients when they don't even approve of sex outside of marriage.

Has it occurred to the law student that she has no constitutional right to sex? Where is that in the Constitution. Has she thought she really might defer a sexual life until marriage? The catholic institutions that they attend have values that include abstinence until marriage. Abstinence is a 100 percent contraceptive.
It is also statistically smart to wait for reasons of emotional, and financial stability and security.
Has she thought it possible to have a partner without sex unless committed to a point of marriage?
The policy of free contraceptions here does enforce the normalization of sex anytime you can get someone to do it with you anytime you want. I take the point of the Holiness people that this looks bizarre. There is totally a lack of sense of what is Holy. The people in the Holiness business have a right to not promote or pay for what they find morally objectionable.



Even if you agree with everything she said, it says nothing about the legitimacy of abortofascients or Plan B or Ella or any morning after drugs which are part of the package and -why??

Contraception prevents unwanted pregnancies so should be extracted from the argument about abortofascients or Plan B or morning after pills. Contraception can promote women's mental health. Abortion does something different. The public policy has to be different.

Seriously, how have we twisted the social norms to a place where men have convinced women that they have to be on drugs because they have to sleep with men who won't use condoms or
marry them? Why do women believe they have to for 20-30 years be on drugs? Contraceptions are drugs. They can have serious side effects- they can disrupt hormonal balances to such a degree that embolisms, aneurisms and strokes result Here is an NIH study indicating higher incidence of heart attacks (myocardial infarcation) in women who use birth control.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1673262/

All women are not on drugs. All women don't want to be. All women between the ages of 15 and 55 should not be having sex all the time anyway instead of raising the stock prices of pharma companies who make this stuff.
Someone should look at the Pharma companies who make all the contraceptions and check out their political contributions profiles. They likely have massive lobbying efforts. Because the country should not all be on drugs. Someone needs some basic common sense slapped into themselves. No, you should not be having sex with your boyfriend if you are trying to focus on law school and not married. If you are not ready to start having a family stop playing house and go to class. Crazy.