I have no problems with contrceptives. If anything, I think they should be encouraged and given out freely to anyone that wants to use them. The tax dollars for supplying them would be far less than the cost of helping unplanned children. The whole moral dilemma and religious opposition shouldn't even be a factor. The Earth is already over populated. It has been projected that the US will have almost 450,000,000 people by the year 2050. Any action that can be taken to prevent this should be exercised. I do not think it needs to be as big of an issue as the media makes it out to be, I personally believe the current candidates make it the focus in order to avoid real issues. People should have the right to use contraceptives if they wish. The way I see it, my insurance covers my focussing medication in order to allow me to succeed in school and hopefully make money in the future. Pretty much any insurance company would cover this for me. Now this drug does nothing for me in regards to health, but I still get it for free (outside of the $10 co-pay). Why insurance companies don't use the same logic for birth control is beyond me. I know it's not the true for all cases, but the majority of females that get pregnant before or during college, and are not fortunate enough for someone to take care of their kid during the day, are forever doomed.
I'm going to rant about a girl I work with. I love her to death, but I HATE the situation she has put herself in. She is 23 years old, dropped out of highschool, and never got her GED. She lied to my employer about having a GED in order to get her job. Her boyfriend went to jail for a year they day he turned 18. He cleaned himself up a lot and worked with us for a while, that is until he got mad and quit. He's still unemployed over a year later. They live in a one room studio in the ghetto, they are shit broke, and haven't paid their rent in two months. Her father recently died (never associated with him) and found out two days later that she was three weeks pregnant. The two of them couldn't afford condoms let alone birth control. She got a grand total of $11,000 from his life insurance, most of which was spent on a car. She hadn't had one for five months prior to that, and bummed rides to and from work every day. Anyway, our company offered to make her full time (even though they are cutting hours) in order to get her some kind of insurance. She denied the offer because if she's part time the state will insure her, pay for baby formula, pay her utilities, give her more food stamps, and make sure she's not evicted (all for the babies sake). This absolutely enrages me... I'm just making these figures up for the sake of getting my point across, but I'd bet that five years of birth control would have been less than the multiple hospital trips shes already made just 16 weeks into pregnancy. The amount of money that the state is going to have to give to this mother throughout the childs young life is something I get disgusted thinking about. Not to mention that given the kids living conditions, and lack of oppurtunities it's going to get, he/she will most likely have to rely on the system for the majority of their life.
I really hate the thought of paying out the ass for something that could have cost me next to nothing from the beginning.