US Free Control

From Yahoo News:
"U.S. says insurers must fully cover birth control"

U.S. health insurance companies must fully cover women's birth control and other preventive health care services under Obama administration rules released on Monday.

The mandate from the Health and Human Services Department represents a landmark decision in a decades-long debate on women's health issues that has pitted family planning groups against conservative organizations. The guidelines, a product of last year's healthcare overhaul, go into effect on Monday, and require insurers to do away with co-payments on coverage of preventive care services for women in all new plans beginning in August 2012. The newly required coverage also includes free screenings for gestational diabetes, testing for human papillomavirus in women over 30, counseling for HIV and sexually transmitted infections, and screening for domestic violence.

^ I agree with all but one of the new coverages entitled to women. I do not believe that women should get free birth control and that we have to pay for it (mainly through government insurance for those on Mediaid to those on welfare.) If a woman can't afford her own birth control then she shouldn't be having sex. The other mandated coverages make complete sense since they are about the physical or emotional health of the woman, but the free birth control doesn't fit in either of those categories. I believe that birth control should be legal and available to women 18 and up, but not that it should be free and taxpayers have to pay for others' sex life. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/federal-health-department-approves-free-birth-control-women-