Discouraging effective birth control is bad policy
There was a time when Republicans and Democrats generally agreed that access to birth control was a public good. Most saw preventing unwanted pregnancies as key to making abortions rare. Those days are over. The Trump administration is indulging a religious hard right, helping it merge the politics of abortion and birth control into one.
There has long been a “pro-life” faction that extends its opposition to abortion to the very use of contraceptives. This is a tiny number of people. Only 4 percent of U.S. adults think contraception is immoral, according to Pew Research Center polling. Even among Catholics who attend Mass weekly, a mere 13 percent consider artificial contraception to be sinful.
Nonetheless, Donald Trump wants to divert money intended to help low-income women obtain birth control to clinics that refuse to provide birth control pills, intrauterine devices and even condoms; in other words, anything modern.
What they offer are instructions to track their periods and refrain from sex during their fertile times. They call it “natural family planning.”
The Mayo Clinic considers this method one of the least effective forms of birth control. “As many as 24 out of 100 women who use natural family planning for birth control,” it says, “become pregnant the first year.”
This is basically an effort to funnel money to a religious fringe. And it has some big enterprises to fund. Obria Medical Clinics, for one, now runs 22 clinics and is starting a $240 million campaign to open more. Obria offers only natural family planning.
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MANDATORY sex education in all schools?
Why, you know Secretary Betsy won't allow that - why would we do anything like that in schools? Besides, who ever listens to things in schools? And don't we have enough to do in schools, just keeping our favorite publishing companies busy with test-prep workbooks that they sell and making the kids "practice" for tests that will prove we need to fire more teachers and let some of our favorite private companies run the schools instead?
Besides, what value is "sex education" when we already know that it is "OK" to grab when we want, have some "fun" with some friends in a room covering the mouth of someone that "can't take a joke," and realizing that "boys will be boys?"
Why do you have a problem with that?
And, after all of that clearly obvious "Trumpian" logic, since when should Congress care what 96% of the populace thinks?
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I've read enough of your posts - I knew you would!
I do sometimes worry about others.... 
