Comment Re:Body Language (Score 1) 698
1: Free birth control makes it much easier for Welfare Mom to stop having babies that cost society *way* more than a few birth control pills ever would to feed, school and so on.
2: Because of tons of reasons, including 1., all add up to free birth control benefiting society. Also financially at both the short and long term.
3: Lots of countries have socialized medicine without going into people's private bedrooms. Scandinavia has high levels of it and is far better than the US at staying out of bedrooms. Your argument is just a slippery slope argument, as there's nothing in people getting free birth control from a private source that doesn't even disclose this to the government that gives the govt. more power over your bedroom.
4: Catholics in the US rarely subscribe to the arguments against birth control, but in a poorly paid job/part volunteer position in a religious organization opposed to it, it can be hard to get and afford.
5: As a side benefit/scary actual argument against free birth control, you can tell people that free birth control means far fewer people who will end up criminals get born.
This is because it disproportionally benefits the poor, and children growing up in poverty, especially in harder environments like ghettos/trailer parks, end up turning to crime more often. They get educated poorly because parents can't help, they go to bad schools and live in bad neighborhoods. Such children are more likely to end up in crime - often because that is their only real option.
So it benefits the health of the nation, the nation's financial bottom line and the perceived level of services received for your taxes.
Should be all good things to a politician, but the amount of faithful republicans is (one of the things) holding the US back.