Desiring Machine

Falling retail numbers this winter? The real reason might lie in the skyrocketing cost of birth control. New federal legislation has removed the ability of local health clinics to buy birth control at discounted rates. The average college student now must spend an average of $50 a month on the pill whereas before they spent $12 a month on average. I know that when I was in college $50 was a significant amount of money. In some cases 25% of my rent. This will account for real economic trade offs people must make. Of course it will mean nothing to the Paris Hiltons of the world but all those students on pell grants might be coming home with a little more than a request for more money help to pay for student loans. When they talk about the unreasonable cost of healthcare this is it. And all because of the cynical machinations of a backwards, imbecile, abstinence only crowd. This crap really pisses me off. I can understand the concerns about teen sex etc. But the narrow, abysmal, and parochial agenda of the pro lifers has gone too far. They offer no reasonable solutions. Their only goal is to erode all the gains society has made in reproductive rights over the last 30 years.

An what of the right to lifer’s perspective on this? Of course they are behind this, but fail to see the consequences of their agenda. Everybody, and I mean everybody, is in favor of less abortions. But this kind of policy shift will only account for increased abortion rates. And I pity the poor souls living in the Dakotas who must travel hundreds of miles to the indian reservations to get their abortions just because they couldn’t afford the 400% increase in birth control that month. And with the price of gas, whooeeee! And who knows perhaps if the price of gas gets high enough the unlucky ones will be forced to drop out of school because they can’t afford an abortion. That is going to suck.

Yet another reason we need a woman in the whitehouse. Go Hillary!

Time to put all the neanderthals in their place.