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Anonymous wrote:I don't know of Republicans that want to "ban birth control"....all Republicans that I have talked to just don't want the government to be responsible for paying for it...or for the government to mandate that employers pay for it. And the reason for that is not because it "encourages promiscuity"

But men on Medicare/Medicaid or on their employer's insurance get their viagra paid for?

What is the reason for that?

Regardless if its right or wrong insurance sees a penis that doesn't function properly as a medical condition that needs to be treated, bc for pregnancy avoidance is not used to treat an illness

birth control is used for other medical reasons
and HPV vaccines are not birth control

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Not normally interested in defending Republicans, but I have to point out that Republicans aren't forcing people to own guns, and they aren't forcing people to forego the HPV vaccine. They want to leave both up to the individual to decide what is right for their own protection.

Please the republicans do not belief in individual rights. They want to control who you marry, what type of drugs you take, not allow family planning, not allow euthanasia, etc. As a result privacy rights are an antithesis to the core value of the party.

Santorum Rejects Idea of Individual Rights
January 8, 2012 at 10:01 am Ed Brayton
Of all the Republican candidates, Rick Santorum may actually be the most authoritarian and dangerous. In a 2006 interview with NPR, he actually rejected “this whole idea of personal autonomy.”

One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right. You know, the left has gone so far left and the right in some respects has gone so far right that they touch each other. They come around in the circle. This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.

He wants government to be just small enough to fit in your bedroom. And your womb. And this notion that states have rights is absurd. State governments have authorities, not rights. Individuals have rights, and only individuals.

Not normally interested in defending Republicans, but I have to point out that Republicans aren't forcing people to own guns, and they aren't forcing people to forego the HPV vaccine. They want to leave both up to the individual to decide what is right for their own protection.

One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right. You know, the left has gone so far left and the right in some respects has gone so far right that they touch each other. They come around in the circle. This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.

He wants government to be just small enough to fit in your bedroom. And your womb. And this notion that states have rights is absurd. State governments have authorities, not rights. Individuals have rights, and only individuals.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know of Republicans that want to "ban birth control"....all Republicans that I have talked to just don't want the government to be responsible for paying for it...or for the government to mandate that employers pay for it. And the reason for that is not because it "encourages promiscuity"

But men on Medicare/Medicaid or on their employer's insurance get their viagra paid for?

What is the reason for that?

Regardless if its right or wrong insurance sees a penis that doesn't function properly as a medical condition that needs to be treated, bc for pregnancy avoidance is not used to treat an illness

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know of Republicans that want to "ban birth control"....all Republicans that I have talked to just don't want the government to be responsible for paying for it...or for the government to mandate that employers pay for it. And the reason for that is not because it "encourages promiscuity"

But men on Medicare/Medicaid or on their employer's insurance get their viagra paid for?

What is the reason for that?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know of Republicans that want to "ban birth control"....all Republicans that I have talked to just don't want the government to be responsible for paying for it...or for the government to mandate that employers pay for it. And the reason for that is not because it "encourages promiscuity"

But men on Medicare/Medicaid or on their employer's insurance get their viagra paid for?

What is the reason for that?

Anonymous wrote:I don't know of Republicans that want to "ban birth control"....all Republicans that I have talked to just don't want the government to be responsible for paying for it...or for the government to mandate that employers pay for it. And the reason for that is not because it "encourages promiscuity"

Anonymous wrote:I don't know of Republicans that want to "ban birth control"....all Republicans that I have talked to just don't want the government to be responsible for paying for it...or for the government to mandate that employers pay for it. And the reason for that is not because it "encourages promiscuity"