Unfortunately many of these women will refuse or be denied due to religious fanatacism. Maybe the new Pope will bring the Catholic Church into the 21st century. [Sarcasm intended]
Dave: If Catholic women want to access contraception, they do. Priests do not stop or deny Catholic women from getting birth control...you are truly ignorant.
goodforgoodnesssake - I guess the 98 percent of Catholic women in the US who use birth control aren't overly concerned with what the church's opinion is on this subject.
The study only looked at married or cohabiting women, but unmarried women tend to have even higher contraceptive needs, according to the researchers. In order to meet the worldwide need for contraceptive methods, increased investment will be necessary, they say.
Of course. Why expect people to not act like animals and practice some control over their impulses?
Your comment is logical.... considering your moniker....... Sexual activity is not necessarily "impulse." The gist of this article is that women consciously desire effective family planning. In its absence, they use whatever means at hand - including rhythm, abstinence during supposed fertile times, even citrus halve stuffed as makeshift diaphrams. It is much more responsible for advanced nations to assist in providing effective birth control - including accurate education - than to stick their heads in the sand (or tea leaves....) and pontificate about narrow moral positions..... while the world's population continues to explode.
Of course. Why expect people to not act like animals and practice some control over their impulses?
So let's see, hubby browbeats wifey until she gives in and lets him do that disgusting thing that she'd rather not do at all, then 9 months later Junior arrives, and it's wifey's fault for not "controlling her impulses".
If you think that women get pregnant because they can't resist their own impulses, you've never been married.
It's enough that Obama mandated that insurance companies pay for contraceptives for American women...I object to paying for ALL women's contraceptives.
Juanita @#3, let us reason together. As a taxpayer, which would you rather subsidize for 20 years or more: A pack of birth control pills once a month, or the cost of raising a child including food, shelter, health, and education?
Actually, I'd love to see most of our foreign aid converted into sponsoring birth control. If there's one thing that the world needs tons of, it's birth control.
I'll never complain about any tax money that prevents more people!
Bingo, I have to take hormones (at 22) so that I don't go into premature menopause. Which, incidentally, would be very dangerous for my health during my twenties...
People shouldn't be covered for anything they don't need, but rather want. Cosmetic surgery, implants, and medication for ED in most cases. These are wants. Acquiring them will not improve your health in most cases...it is called Health insurance, not Feel-Good insurance. The cause of ED is often long term smoking or drug use. People shouldn't be covered for direct or indirect costs of addiction and/or obesity. We collectively pay into an insurance company's financial pool. Why should those of us with self-control suffer higher rates because of those without?
I dont want anything to do with birth control. It increases breast cancer risk in many people. I would love to have a duaghter but I have PCOS so I cant. I love my husband and we control our selves by not having sex.
Plenty of people who have polycystic ovarian syndrome manage to have children, Amanda. I know that it's anecdotal, but I have a close family relative and two high school friends who have PCOS and have had successful pregnancies. (My relative was undiagnosed at the time she become pregnant with her son, despite the fact that she had many of the most common symptoms. One friend has had two sons with no fertility treatments, although it did take her quite some time to become pregnant with her second son.) As for birth control, there are many other methods that you and your husband could use to prevent pregnancy that are hormone-free such as a cervical cap or a diaphragm. If your gynecologist cannot fit you for either one (unfortunately, many doctors only seem to know how to prescribe hormonal birth control) , find one that can. There's no need in this day and age to make you or your husband endure a sexless marriage out of fear of pregnancy.
223 million women by 2015? Hell's best anthracite! There are several billion women who need contraception now. And Amanda, please give your husband my sympathy for being your husband.
Sorry - most women don't "need" birth control. They may want it, but they don't need it. As a woman, and representative of a large majority of women, there is one simple way to avoid pregnancy. It's not rocket science. I am not speaking to women who take the pill for legitimate medical reasons but rather to those who strictly use the pill to prevent pregnancy. I'm sure this post will elicit a good deal of backlash. But, the fact remains that there is a very short window of opportunity during which one can become pregnant. Surely, we can take back control over our lives and our actions rather than give it to a pill that itself is known to carry with it its own dangers from use. eg. migraines, stroke, cancer and perhaps other diseases that have become more prevalent in our children over the past 40 years.
Hope all of you are working so you can pay for it!! It's a "right" to have birth control and you shouldn't have to put a dent in your double latte money!
Ahaha, if you click the link above from LiveScience "7 Surprising Facts About the Pill", two things mentioned are how it pollutes our waters and how it makes women choose poor mates...This article says demand for The Pill is increasing....
WE'RE DOOMED to drink tainted water, suffer hormonal imbalances, and evolutionarily regress from poor Natural Selection...by "WE" I mean all animals that drink the water, who are in essence, also taking The Pill.
For years the progressive/anti-conservative message has been to keep government laws/regulations out of the bedroom so people can do as they please in private. Also the basis of Roe v Wade.
On the other hand, those same people are demanding government intervention on an international basis because men continue to procreate and women have no control over their own bodies.
Sounds to me as though it's no longer a privacy issue but an entitlement taxpayers must shell out money to accomplish.
I'm all for insurance companies covering birth control. The bigger picture for me is it encourages and enables people to be more responsible with family planning and makes it easier to do that. It allows couples to hold off on having children until they are emotionally and financially ready for them. As a society, don't we want to make that more available instead of less through the provision of birth control? Don't we want our children born into families that are ready for them? The easier we make that the better off we will be as a whole, for a minimal cost.
As to paying or it, which is better, $20 a month for birth control or thousands of dollars for prenatal care, labor and delivery, newborn care, well baby checkups, etc, etc, etc. Think about it.
Taxpayers are going to have to choose, one or the other: Pay for birth control NOW —or— pay for govt assistance to the poor later. If you insist on paying for neither, then don't be surprised when some kids are born dirt-poor in the inner city, possibly abused & never wanted, who learn to break the law (stealing) in order to survive because they don't have the financial resources, never were given role models to encourage going to college and make something more of themselves, nor have enough of their own private money to go (grants & scholarships amounts aren't enough)—so that in 20 years they will be coming to YOUR house in an armed robbery to steal your hard earned possessions that they want to sell, in order to pay for their rent that month. Makes more sense to pay for birth control in the long run, no?
i am so tired of this @!$%# with people and their idiot idea of what they want their money to go for. i don't want my taxes paying for this and that and not the other thing either. get over it its not a line item veto. you pay for health insurance and go to the docotor as you see fit i don't give a crap as to why you go. and yes the premiums go up (never down) but not because of the fat people and the drunks and women on birth control or the guys with a limp biscuits but because the insurance company wants to make more profits. it is 2013 and birth control is the hottest topic of the decade really?
We are overpopulating this planet and birth control is a sure means to help with this problem. Unfortunately, many women do not have a choice in birth control because of societal/religious mores.
Until all women have complete control of their own bodies we will continue to have unplanned/unwanted pregnancies and babies, babies that may end up abused, malnourished, etc.
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Unfortunately many of these women will refuse or be denied due to religious fanatacism. Maybe the new Pope will bring the Catholic Church into the 21st century. [Sarcasm intended]
Dave: If Catholic women want to access contraception, they do. Priests do not stop or deny Catholic women from getting birth control...you are truly ignorant.
They do discourage it and claim it's a sin.
Been to Africa lately, Juanita? It has a growing Catholic demographic.
goodforgoodnesssake - I guess the 98 percent of Catholic women in the US who use birth control aren't overly concerned with what the church's opinion is on this subject.
Perhaps not Lee, but according to the article, this is a world-wide issue. Maybe folks from other parts aren't as defiant as American Catholics.
Of course. Why expect people to not act like animals and practice some control over their impulses?
Your comment is logical.... considering your moniker....... Sexual activity is not necessarily "impulse." The gist of this article is that women consciously desire effective family planning. In its absence, they use whatever means at hand - including rhythm, abstinence during supposed fertile times, even citrus halve stuffed as makeshift diaphrams. It is much more responsible for advanced nations to assist in providing effective birth control - including accurate education - than to stick their heads in the sand (or tea leaves....) and pontificate about narrow moral positions..... while the world's population continues to explode.
So let's see, hubby browbeats wifey until she gives in and lets him do that disgusting thing that she'd rather not do at all, then 9 months later Junior arrives, and it's wifey's fault for not "controlling her impulses".
If you think that women get pregnant because they can't resist their own impulses, you've never been married.
It's enough that Obama mandated that insurance companies pay for contraceptives for American women...I object to paying for ALL women's contraceptives.
Barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen. A child a year throughout fertile years - ya gotta keep 'em busy, ya know.....
Juanita @#3, let us reason together. As a taxpayer, which would you rather subsidize for 20 years or more: A pack of birth control pills once a month, or the cost of raising a child including food, shelter, health, and education?
Actually, I'd love to see most of our foreign aid converted into sponsoring birth control. If there's one thing that the world needs tons of, it's birth control.
I'll never complain about any tax money that prevents more people!
What is the church stance on penile implants, Viagra and Cialis? Do people think that those shouldn't be covered by insurance?
Why do you have an issue with Cialis? It is not used just for ED--it is also used to treat BPH.
Funny, most people realize that BCPs aren't only used for contraception, yet that doesn't stop the wing nuts from trying to legislate it to death.
Bingo, I have to take hormones (at 22) so that I don't go into premature menopause. Which, incidentally, would be very dangerous for my health during my twenties...
Do you think the Church would approve of Pos-T-Vac?
People shouldn't be covered for anything they don't need, but rather want. Cosmetic surgery, implants, and medication for ED in most cases. These are wants. Acquiring them will not improve your health in most cases...it is called Health insurance, not Feel-Good insurance. The cause of ED is often long term smoking or drug use. People shouldn't be covered for direct or indirect costs of addiction and/or obesity. We collectively pay into an insurance company's financial pool. Why should those of us with self-control suffer higher rates because of those without?
I dont want anything to do with birth control. It increases breast cancer risk in many people. I would love to have a duaghter but I have PCOS so I cant. I love my husband and we control our selves by not having sex.
Plenty of people who have polycystic ovarian syndrome manage to have children, Amanda. I know that it's anecdotal, but I have a close family relative and two high school friends who have PCOS and have had successful pregnancies. (My relative was undiagnosed at the time she become pregnant with her son, despite the fact that she had many of the most common symptoms. One friend has had two sons with no fertility treatments, although it did take her quite some time to become pregnant with her second son.) As for birth control, there are many other methods that you and your husband could use to prevent pregnancy that are hormone-free such as a cervical cap or a diaphragm. If your gynecologist cannot fit you for either one (unfortunately, many doctors only seem to know how to prescribe hormonal birth control) , find one that can. There's no need in this day and age to make you or your husband endure a sexless marriage out of fear of pregnancy.
Your husband is a lucky guy
223 million women by 2015? Hell's best anthracite! There are several billion women who need contraception now. And Amanda, please give your husband my sympathy for being your husband.
Sorry - most women don't "need" birth control. They may want it, but they don't need it. As a woman, and representative of a large majority of women, there is one simple way to avoid pregnancy. It's not rocket science. I am not speaking to women who take the pill for legitimate medical reasons but rather to those who strictly use the pill to prevent pregnancy. I'm sure this post will elicit a good deal of backlash. But, the fact remains that there is a very short window of opportunity during which one can become pregnant. Surely, we can take back control over our lives and our actions rather than give it to a pill that itself is known to carry with it its own dangers from use. eg. migraines, stroke, cancer and perhaps other diseases that have become more prevalent in our children over the past 40 years.
I am all for women using birth control. I just shouldn't have to pay for it.
Hope all of you are working so you can pay for it!! It's a "right" to have birth control and you shouldn't have to put a dent in your double latte money!
Alas, the simplest form of birth control is still the good ole fashioned male condom. Well, actually it's......nevermind.
Ahaha, if you click the link above from LiveScience "7 Surprising Facts About the Pill", two things mentioned are how it pollutes our waters and how it makes women choose poor mates...This article says demand for The Pill is increasing....
WE'RE DOOMED to drink tainted water, suffer hormonal imbalances, and evolutionarily regress from poor Natural Selection...by "WE" I mean all animals that drink the water, who are in essence, also taking The Pill.
For years the progressive/anti-conservative message has been to keep government laws/regulations out of the bedroom so people can do as they please in private. Also the basis of Roe v Wade.
On the other hand, those same people are demanding government intervention on an international basis because men continue to procreate and women have no control over their own bodies.
Sounds to me as though it's no longer a privacy issue but an entitlement taxpayers must shell out money to accomplish.
I'm all for insurance companies covering birth control. The bigger picture for me is it encourages and enables people to be more responsible with family planning and makes it easier to do that. It allows couples to hold off on having children until they are emotionally and financially ready for them. As a society, don't we want to make that more available instead of less through the provision of birth control? Don't we want our children born into families that are ready for them? The easier we make that the better off we will be as a whole, for a minimal cost.
As to paying or it, which is better, $20 a month for birth control or thousands of dollars for prenatal care, labor and delivery, newborn care, well baby checkups, etc, etc, etc. Think about it.
Very well said. Thank you for the cogent, calm, logical discourse.
Thank you for a common sense and intelligent comment.
Taxpayers are going to have to choose, one or the other: Pay for birth control NOW —or— pay for govt assistance to the poor later. If you insist on paying for neither, then don't be surprised when some kids are born dirt-poor in the inner city, possibly abused & never wanted, who learn to break the law (stealing) in order to survive because they don't have the financial resources, never were given role models to encourage going to college and make something more of themselves, nor have enough of their own private money to go (grants & scholarships amounts aren't enough)—so that in 20 years they will be coming to YOUR house in an armed robbery to steal your hard earned possessions that they want to sell, in order to pay for their rent that month. Makes more sense to pay for birth control in the long run, no?
i am so tired of this @!$%# with people and their idiot idea of what they want their money to go for. i don't want my taxes paying for this and that and not the other thing either. get over it its not a line item veto. you pay for health insurance and go to the docotor as you see fit i don't give a crap as to why you go. and yes the premiums go up (never down) but not because of the fat people and the drunks and women on birth control or the guys with a limp biscuits but because the insurance company wants to make more profits. it is 2013 and birth control is the hottest topic of the decade really?
We are overpopulating this planet and birth control is a sure means to help with this problem. Unfortunately, many women do not have a choice in birth control because of societal/religious mores.
Until all women have complete control of their own bodies we will continue to have unplanned/unwanted pregnancies and babies, babies that may end up abused, malnourished, etc.