For up-to-date information about opposition to contraception in the US and world-wide visit RH Reality Check.Colorado Bill would make pill illegal
"According to Leslie Hanks, one of Amendment 62's authors, it would make certain forms of the pill and other contraceptive devices illegal: 'Many of the oral contraceptives have an action that makes the womb inhospitable to a developing embryo and, hence, the new living, growing baby is prevented from residing where his or her creator intended until birth.'" (http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/29/5200358-gop-for-big-government-in-a-small-uterus?pc=25&sp=25)
For examples of State and federal government representatives obstructing access to birth control:
http://feministing.com/2010/11/18/opposing-birth-control-coverage-should-be-as-ridiculous-as-hating-puppies/ (Go right to paragraph 2--there's links there)
White House list of free preventative services won’t include birth control:
http://feministing.com/2010/07/14/white-house-list-of-free-preventative-services-wont-include-birth-control/27 States require insurers to cover birth control:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-12/the-coming-battle-over-the-cost-of-birth-control/
Something to consider:
49% of pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended?
http://feministing.com/2010/06/24/nearly-half-of-u-s-pregnancies-are-unintended/
For public opinion on birth control and abortion, here's the latest:
http://feministing.com/2010/12/07/even-tea-party-voters-dont-want-reproductive-rights-attacked/
Campaigns to tarnish birth control:
http://feministing.com/2010/11/02/birth-control-not-really-causing-gender-disphoria-in-fish/
Stigma against birth control in other countries:
http://feministing.com/2010/10/01/%E2%80%9Ci-want-to-tell-them-that-it%E2%80%99s-okay-to-use-contraception-but-the-church-says-no-%E2%80%9D/
I am having problems finding any other source that supports this. I think that feministing.com is not a source that I would say is looking at this from a non biased view point.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that there needs to be some restrictions on giving out birth control. I think young people need to understand that bc does not protect you from everything. Most schools are doing abstance only education is not helping this either.
Contracept.org stats that 46% of women who had an abortion in 2008 did not use contraception the month they got pregnant, 8% (of that 46%) had never used a contraceptive, and 47% had had at least one abortion before.
The law in Arizona will not pass, it is just another case of religious views being pressed down on other people. I think that women should have a choice, but the above statistics show that there needs to be some education.
I think that they should first off keep birth control readily available. If that statistic says that 49% of pregnancy's are unintended, I think that says something. Keeping birth control legal could most likely keep that percentage down and also allow women the freedom of being on birth control so they can stop worrying about getting pregnant. I don't think it is the countries or any states decision whether or not a woman can use birth control pills. There, in my opinion, is no wrong reason for using birth control, so unless they can prove it other wise, I think they are just creating a larger problem that necessary.
ReplyDelete-Tracy Ahearn