The CNN story says the following:
If the Institute of Medicine committee's recommendations are accepted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, women will no longer have to shell out co-pays, deductibles or other out-of-pocket fees for approved birth control or sterilization methods.I have little doubt that the Dept. of HHS will try to force this on us.
It's unclear whether HHS will implement the report's recommendations. That decision could come as early as August.
"We are reviewing the report closely and will release the Department's recommendations of what additional preventive services for women should be covered without cost sharing very soon," said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
She called the IOM report "historic" and said its recommendations were "based on science and existing literature."
The IOM committee recommended that all U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives, including the morning after pills, should be fully covered by insurance plans.
So, in order to educate others as to why this is a bad idea, I offer this list:
Top 10 Reasons Free Contraception For All is A Terrible Idea.
9 - It causes a multitude of side-effects. They include:
- Increased risk of cancer
- Decreased libido
- Weight gain
- Blood Clots
- Mood changes
- Depression
- Headaches
8 - If you are responsible enough to have sex, you should be responsible enough for a baby. But, contraception tells us that sex and babies are two separate things. Thus, we have "accidental pregnancies" when someone uses contraception. No pregnancy is an "accident" because everything happened just like nature intended it to.
7 - Parents would be bypassed in order to get contraception to children. Another case of the government usurping the role of parents.
6 - The Bible says that fertility is a blessing. Contraception says fertility is a curse or a disease that we need to "fix" with a pill, shot, or implant. The first command given to both Adam and Eve is to "be fertile and multiply."
5 - Contraception does not help families or marriages. In fact, the divorce rate and the use of contraception mirror one another. But, when a couple uses Natural Family Planning the divorce rate is .2% and marriages are rated much better.
4 - Contraception makes a woman into an object. When a woman's fertility is seen as a bad thing, then the whole person is not respected. The woman is then turned into an object to be used for mere pleasure. Pope Paul VI predicted this outcome in his encyclical Humanae Vitae.
3 - Contraception fails and lulls people into a false sense of security. The only 100% proven way of not getting pregnant is abstinence. We see that the only proven way to reduce AIDS in Africa was a program in Uganda that focused on abstinence and faithfulness. Condoms and contraception have always failed.
2 - Natural Family Planning (NFP) is ALWAYS a better option. Check this out if you doubt me. Remember also that contraception became mainstreamed in our country after a marketing campaign by Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. She wanted to rid the world of the "undesirables" by contracepting them out of existence. She even advised Hitler on eugenics. Her history is scary. She is the mother of contraception (pardon the pun).
1 - To create life with God is the most powerful thing two people can do together. Sexuality is not just about pleasure. It is about real love, the bonding of the spouses, and the openness to life. Sexuality is so much more than our modern idea of it. Contraception perverts sex and leads to the "contraceptive mentality" that sex / love / babies are all separate (though sometimes related) things. We must fight this mentality and free contraception for all.
