Sex-Crazed Co-eds Going Broke Buying Birth Control

[Rhyfelwyr]

And for the last time RHY For birth control to work you have to continually taking it. Yes she could've been banging 10 dudes a day or she could've been in a committed relationship only sleeping with one man or even still she could have not been having sex at all.

Anyone who calls this woman a slut doesn't understand birth control and is simply parroting b grade teen comedy

OK. I apologise for presuming she is a slut when I didn't know how the pill works. I just like to be dramatic and throw around wild accusations. I am sorry.

That's a strange way of putting it. The blurring of lines between churches and their businesses has been the core of the GOP argument for why a relatively obscure insurance rule is a War on Religion. If anything, in this thread, I've had to hammer the distinction five or six times before anyone could be bothered to note it. I don't think that's a failure of comprehension; that's willfully ignoring a distinction that wasn't convenient to the outrage and look-at-the-stupid-sluts line of humor that constituted the first page of this thread.

Well to be fair, the first page was concerned with that because the OP appears to address that one particular argument, rather than the concerns that were purely or at least primarily medical in nature. Let's try to keep focused on addressing the arguments themselves, rather than turning this into another us v them debate and presuming that every argument from one side is being put forth by everyone on that side.

Yeah, 'cause reproductive health concerns are recreational in nature. And a bunch of dudes are fit to make that judgement, rather than the stupid sluts. Oh, wait, you're getting to that ...

Well, those reproductive health concerns are only there because of the recreation they are choosing to pursue. I don't believe that my gender changes that fact.

So not only do we have a Stupid Sluts argument, we cap it with "that was a dumb move, she looked bad, the Dems came out on the bottom so phooey" thing.

Well that is exactly how things appeared. At least until Mr. Limbaugh stepped in, but we'll get to that...

Problems with that argument: (1) The stupid slut has garnered far more public sympathy than you acknowledge. As a GOP lawmaker put it today, "Rush’s attempt to increase his ratings and get noticed again do hurt Republicans. Beating up on a college student is not good optics, and refocusing on her argument that this is about contraception [...] is simply not very helpful to the cause.”

Yes, Rush handed this very poorly and he seems to have flipped the public's perspective on this girl from being a whore to being a poor victimised college girl. When you're a public figure you have to watch your mouth.

and (3) you are a dude declaring that birth control is not basic healthcare. Which puts you off the reservation with just about any medical group anywhere.

I don't care.

I think the fact that most of the rightwing Orgahs just plain want Obamacare gone is making this more of a quagmire than it needs to be. Do any of you really think this is an assault on religious freedom? Seriously? I mean, I know that's the talking point, but you don't actually believe that bullhockey, do you?

Well I'm certainly not coming from an anti-Obamacare perspective, I love my NHS and hate how the current government is dismantling it. As for it being an assault on religious freedom, I do not believe that Obama meant it to be some sort of wicked plot to submit the church to the state. But I think that a side effect of this policy is that it does infringe on peoples' freedom of conscience without sufficient reason.