<p>75% of single mothers living at or below the poverty level have full time jobs. I know you don’t get out of your neighborhood much, but it’s just a fact.</p>
<p>And, while many women have been able to get low cost birth control for quite some time, the truth is that state legislatures all accross the country are currently so busy trying to defund the places, planned parenthood chief among them, who give out cheap birth control to women, we may well see a change in this, as well.</p>
<p>I don’t know why you believe that full time working women can’t be impoverished. You kind of live in a fantasy land. Women who have a job can’t possibly be the “they” you keep talking about. Unfortunately, they are a huge part of the “they” you keep invoking on here. They are single mothers, the single largest group of people living below the poverty line in this country, only eclipsed by…wait for it…their children, who live below the poverty line, as well.</p>
<p>kluge,
That was an awfully wordy post to put forth a basic tenet of capitalism: “Whenever something is free, you get more of it.”</p>
<p>If using birth control is free, then we should expect that more women will use it. Is this in fact the case? And if it is the case that the women who get it for free now are using it more, is it in fact reducing their rates of abortion and unwanted pregnancy? There is no reason we shouldn’t know the answer to this. Claremarie has provided information indicating that it does not, or will not, work to achieve its goal.</p>
<p>“But they require a relatively high level of commitment – you have to remember to take them every day, at the same time, even if your sexual activity is erratic. Women who don’t keep a regular schedule, or are in the habit of spending nights away from home, need to make special efforts to keep those pills handy. The 25% of low-income women who smoke should not be taking the pill. The pill can cause unpleasant side effects that discourage women from continuing their use.” </p>
<p>What a bigoted statement. Poor women are too stupid to swallow a pill. Speak for yourself.</p>
<p>“The mandate applies to women working full-time, who are able to afford the premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance policies. It has nothing to do with the “poverty-stricken,” “impoverished” women you keep citing. Who, in any event, do not themselves cite their poverty-stricken state as the reason for any failure to use contraception.”</p>
<p>There are plenty of poor women working full time (thanks to Ronnie). You sound like a mouthpiece for Cato. You’re repeating non-sensical mumbo jumbo that is pretty insulting to the poor women reading. This is a website for students, and I’m sure many are poor.</p>
<p>I hear they pay posters 50cents a comment.</p>
<p>“Claremarie has provided information indicating that it does not, or will not, work to achieve its goal.”</p>
<p>The Dayton Daily News reports that Turner’s bill would mandate that men seeking Viagra be “tested for heart problems, receive counseling about possible side effects and receive information about ‘pursuing celibacy as a viable lifestyle choice.’”</p>
<p>Missouri state Rep. Stacey Newman, a Democrat, introduced legislation that would allow men to get vasectomies only if their life depended upon the procedure, which was similar to Georgia state Rep. Yasmin Neal’s bill. “In determining whether a vasectomy is necessary, no regard shall be made to the desire of a man to father children, his economic situation, his age, the number of children he is currently responsible for, or any danger to his wife or partner in the event a child is conceived,” the tongue-in-cheek Missouri bill reads.</p>