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Pill Bill: Birth Control is Not Healthcare
by ALL
Released October 5, 2005
The Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act would require insurance plans that cover prescriptions to cover birth control chemicals and devices.
Its sponsors allege that the bill will provide “gender equity” to women who seek “outpatient contraceptive services” in order to prevent “unintended” pregnancy. But this claim is false.
The decision to use artificial birth control is elective. There is no disease to be treated. The only "malady" to be eliminated is the possibility of a child.
The “outpatient contraceptive services” include oral contraceptives [the Pill], the IUD, the diaphragm, Norplant and Depo-Provera. Of these five methods, only one-the diaphragm-lacks the potential to kill a preborn human being. The others can and do kill, and are therefore not contraceptives-we are talking about abortion.
This is a key point, for the promoters of this legislation make the false claim that this bill-if passed-will assist in curtailing the number of abortions. The fact is that any escalation in the use of abortive birth control methods will only increase the number of abortions.
The claims of abortion proponents and birth control advocates are focused on an illusion-that anyone who admits that she has not chosen the exact time for the conception of her child is experiencing an “unintended” pregnancy.
If the sponsors-hysterical over their presumed duty to control the population-were honest, they would admit that they are committed to any tactic that will result in fewer live births.
Congress must defeat the Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act.
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