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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=takoma][quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, the logic is pretty sound.  Exams, like the flu shot, are preventive in nature (ie, preventing someone from being medically sick).  Birth control does not prevent someone from being sick.[/quote]
AAAAhhh, but you ALREADY defined pregnancy as a "medical condition" requiring treatment.

Checkmate, honey.[/quote]
I'm not PP, but I don't think so. Treatment for a pregnant woman is itself preventative. Pregnancy obviously isn't a disease, so preventing it isn't like preventing the flu.[/quote]
It's a medical condition, so preventing it has at least some similarity to preventing the flu.  To be more precise, I see pregnancy as a parasitic invasion that brings discomfort, pain, and sometimes even death.  Fortunately, although its duration is lengthy, it is not chronic.  But it has side effects which can last your entire life, although they sometimes have beneficial aspects.[/quote]

Lets be real.  In general, one gets pregnant by choice.  One does not get the flu by choice, or other medical conditions.  The fact is that sex is a voluntary act that I should not have to pay for.  IF an insurer wants to provide it on a cost benefit basis, that is fine.  But requiring it is a different story.[/quote]

Exactly.  Why should childless families have to pay money so that you can have five babies?  It's not like epilepsy, something that could affect everyone and something beyond your control.  It's not even something complicated like heart disease, which has a lifestyle component but also a genetic component beyond your control.  The Republican logic is that sex is a choice.  Therefore babies are certainly a choice.

If you want parity, then all women should all pay an extra $600 a year for an insurance rider and then you cover birth control + labor and delivery.  OR you cover neither one.   OR, we could be a civil society and pay for women's health across the board like we should, and let the women decide if they want to have children or not.[/quote]

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