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CMV: birth control should be covered by health insurance

1. As a person of the female gender, I have been taking birth control, not as a contraceptive, but rather as a way to keep my menstrual cycle regular, as well as reduce my severe pains from menstruating.  In this way, birth control is a drug to keep one healthy, not a drug with any moral complications.

2.  If our taxpayer money is not going towards birth control, than I think we then must pay for the healthcare of any child born from an accidental pregnancy, whose parents don't have the means to support that child.  A child is does not deserve to die of some illness because their parents cannot afford to raise them.  A person does not deserve a shitty life simply for being born.
Here is a hypothetical: A person cannot afford birth control and therefore has unprotected sex.  They end up with a child that they didn't necessarily want.  They are still poor, and therefore unable to pay for health care for that child.  Therefore, that child is being payed for by our taxpayer dollars.  We must support that child for 18 years, instead of paying for pills, shots, or some rubber, all of which are significantly cheaper than a child.  Won't the community paying for birth control allow more children to live quality lives, while we pay less?

3.  Now, I do believe that this could all be avoided simply by people having less sex, but as of yet, that is just to optimistic, so we should use contraceptives instead of preaching abstinence.


Edit: it has been brought to my attention that I mentioned health insurance rather than general health care and widespread coverage.  I do not mean specific companies that launder your money for you, but rather the government and community as a provider of care.
gpt
If we have some universal coverage, it should include birth control; likewise taxpayer-funded medical assistance should cover it, etc.  But you're talking about health insurance.  The whole point of insurance is that you pay a little money in exchange for coverage in the event of rare events.  Birth control is something you can anticipate that you need every month.  When insurance companies cover it, that means that you are paying them to tell you what specific birth control method to use and what ob/gyn you should see, and to handle your money for you.  It's wasteful.  It would be more efficient to just pay for your own routine care and let insurance be insurance - a method of making sure you can afford it if you get cancer or get hit by a bus.