Allow us to remove our inherent bias from politics for a brief report on the disintegration of accessibility to affordable oral contraceptive birth control for women. Our great nation is evolving to meddle in personal affairs, and is now attempting to remove laws mandating insurance coverage of birth control. Innumerable women will suffer countless repercussions from the absence of affordable birth control in their life. Therefore, this is the most pressing issue in our society stemming from the absolute lack of empathy from male lawmakers to revoke rights to oral contraceptive birth control. Birth control is a necessity to countless women. Lawmakers, who are primarily male, should not have the right to repeal rights to birth control. Hormonal …show more content…
Viagra. A pill to aid a man with erectile dysfunction is covered by government insurance agencies, but birth control is being pushed from coverage. Last year in military spending alone, the government shelled out a whopping eighty four million dollars for erectile disfunction medication (“Why does the…”). This unruly cost backs a ‘medication’ that has only sexual benefits, while birth control, a topic that is so harshly opposed because it promotes more intercourse between citizens when in all actuality it has a valid medical purpose, is under fire. There is no logic behind the argument that Viagra should be free and birth control should cost a woman, because the science does not back it up. Free medication should be chosen from a scientific standpoint, and the benefits should be weighed to validate why the public should have access to them. Viagra, unlike birth control, is not a necessity, and should be reviewed as a substance that doesn’t need to be given out at no cost with insurance. And birth control should be revered as an actual medicine, not a sexual