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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about requiring people on welfare to get a birth control implant in their arm?  Only if we can get one for men AND women, though.  [/quote]

Is this a serious question?[/quote]

Yes.

No one is forcing someone to get on birth control.  But IF you want to receive welfare, and there's no medical indication that birth control would harm you, why not make birth control a condition of welfare?  Serious question.

Just as if we choose to drive a car we must get a drivers license and car insurance.  No one is forcing you to drive and to have those things.  But if you choose to drive, you have to play by the rules.  What if BC is a condition of welfare?  What right does that violate? We're not talking about state forced, secret, irreversible sterilization, but a temporary medication that, while receiving public assistance, prevents pregnancy.  Why is that so horrible?  You can take it out and go off welfare tomorrow if you wish.  [/quote]

Gee, if people want to be treated for medical issues, maybe they should have to buy insurance.  That seems logical, too.  Yet without an insurance mandate, any dumbs clutching his chest will get treated.  And when the bill for that medical care bankrupts him, he'll qualify for medicaid.[/quote]  Not sure how that relates to the above.  I support the ACA. So let's try again:

How does it violate an individual's rights if, as a condition of receiving public assistance, they must get on government provided, government paid, temporary, fully disclosed, removable birth control for the duration of said assistance?  [/quote]

Well, there's the religious freedom component. Some people don't believe in artificial birth control because of their religious beliefs. You're going to get quite a few churches and conservatives who equate birth control with abortion upset with you on that.   And then there's the medical question for some who cannot take hormonal birth control -- women who are at risk for strokes, for example.  And women over 40, who are often told not to take hormonal birth control.  What about a woman who says she's menopausal?   Are you going to set up clinics for all those who receive public assistance, to figure out whether a woman is actually menopausal. Or to administer this "temporary, fully disclosed, removable birth control" - esp. if it has to be an IUD instead of pills for medical reasons.[/quote]

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