Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Sarah, and I have been married to my husband for over five years now. We have two beautiful sons and currently expecting our third child. We are a Christian family and our church and values play a role in our everyday life.
This being said I could not be happier with the possibility that birth control could be free under the new health laws. Although my husband and I are not financially where we would like to be, we are secure. We are able to pay our bills and have some left over, however birth control has always been such a burden. Financially we have never qualified for cheaper birth control through government programs. As Christians we don’t feel comfortable going through organizations like planned parenthood either. Before this last pregnancy the cheapest birth control we could get with our insurance was $50 a month. Not an undoable amount but definitely a strain. To offer birth control options, free to women, I think would only be a benefit. As the article stated countries with free contraceptives have a lower teen pregnancy rate, lower abortion rates, and lower pregnancy rates altogether. While I don’t believe in sex before marriage I’m also not naïve. I know that this is the cultural norm. By making birth control free we would see a dramatic drop in unplanned pregnancy. There is no way to force sexually active women to take birth control so it’s not going to completely solve the issue but I believe it can only help.
I commend you for expressing your stance on this subject. Being a man it is very hard for me to way in on the subject. I usually fall back to, my opinion that it is not my body that either takes the pill or has the baby. Having a child of my own and making the decision shortly after he was born, or should I say my wife made most of the decision due to the difficulty of his birth, contraception not only was the healthy choice but the best choice for us. Your blog was short but very informative and I didn’t have any problems getting to the web site to review the news article. I would have to say that if women had free birth control we may not have to force them to use it.
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ReplyDeleteProfessor Julie M. Davis
Interdisciplinary Comp II
Unit 1 Blog Response
7 November 2010
Sarah,
Hi I read your blog and while I agree with most of what you said, I would not want to see free birth control if it has to come in the package that the president set out and has become known as the Obama Health Care Plan. I don’t agree with a lot of things in that plan and I do hope we can find a way to put a stop to this before it goes into effect. I know what you mean about having birth control available for teens. I have two daughters and thankfully their mother was able to sit and talk with them about getting pregnant as a teen and the long term effects it would have on them and the child. Well neither of them was pregnant as teens and now, one is 27 and the other 23 they both have children but are able to care for them and make things happen on their own. I kno0w that there is a big rise in teenage pregnancies in the past five years and I have also watched that show 16 and pregnant. I think if most teenagers would watch these kinds of shows with real life situations and use them as a learning tool of what it is like to be a teenager and pregnant that would help cut back on the number of them getting pregnant.