Read just about anything written here by Texas Defender and tell use that we're exaggerating. We've all seen such discrimination and he's painting it out clearly for us all.

As usual, however, you, like most regressives think we haven't thought things through and that's why we came to different conclusions. That isn't true.

Or maybe it's almost like women understand concerns like this. I went for almost 40 years without "getting myself pregnant" because I knew that having kids wasn't ideal then. Now I've been trying for three years and it might just be too late. But hey, surprise, women are people.

I think too, that it's important to consider the rest of the child's behavior pattern. Is this a child who's going through a quick phase, expressing a simple want or need, or is it a pattern of controlling behavior? I know a young lady who has been diagnosed with AD/HD and medicated most of her life whose behavior…

I don't know what to tell you friend. My co-pays are pretty much the same as they were in 2009. Talk to your insurance.

*eyeroll* Insurance companies (still) have a straight up monopoly. You don't have many options, being as your employer generally only gives you maybe 2-3 options to choose from and almost never do you have the option to look at another company for competition. For decades they could charge whatever they chose and…

Exactly. It makes me sad when I hear about it, but that still doesn't make it my business.

No. Not at all. You still get your insurance from a private company. Yes, the government makes them comply to certain standards (just like food and drugs, car safety, etc). That's what the ACA does. It does not give over your insurance to the government. And no, he should not have said that, because he can't…

Nah, there isn't. Everything's postponed til tomorrow because hurricane. But regardless, I reserve the right to say as I choose to whomsoever I choose on these things. I don't do it for the trolls, I do it for others to get a framework to hang their own arguments upon.

Not only does it have physical repercussions on the body, there's this thing where you then are responsible for another human for the rest of your life. If you choose to be, then that's awesome. I want to be as well. I'm trying my damndest to become a mom. But that's my choice. And I make choices only for me. …

You know, rereading this, it makes me mad on another level. Why should you have to explain your medical choices to people who are neither your doctor, your partner, nor your legal guardian? You're an adult human, you have insurance(I assume), and you've made a personal health choice. Why should you have to explain?

Agreed. There's literally no reason for it other than to hurt people. Find other language which doesn't make you sound like a dipshit.

Right? Well, *they* won't have a stroke. Therefore, it's really just poor planning on your part to decide to have one. And you should totally just use condoms. Because that works for them. /snark

I don't know. I finally parsed it as that your insurance doesn't have to cover birth control but that you'd get extra money so you could pay for it yourself? Which is nonsense. Birth control is medication. Medication is covered by insurance. It's wearing me out that there is this underlying message that being a…

Eh, I reserve the right. Especially by answering irrationality with rationality. It's not about "winning," it's about maintaining calm in the face of utter ignorance.

You know what's my favorite thing? It's having to "listen" to men tell me how my body works and how medications I may or may not choose to take will affect it. Though maybe more than that, I love being told which are "right" for me to take by people who not only aren't my doctor, but who've never even seen me. …

Eh, sometimes it's fun :)

Why should I compromise with healthcare? It's not personal. It's healthcare. People don't take birth control to piss others off, they take it because they think it's the right thing to do for themselves. Why should they compromise their own health to keep others happy in some completely non-specific way? And for…

They can always add more. But if you were paying attention, you'd see that I don't use birth control. I never have and can't because of my hormones. But birth control should be treated precisely the same as every other medication. Period. There's literally no reason to discriminate against healthcare just because…

It's not my choice, nor anyone else's what kind of medications one is prescribed or chooses to use. And if their religious convictions were so sound, then why did they cover these exact same medications until the ACA told them they had to? Why do they continue to invest in the companies which produce these same…