Don’t Let Trump Come For Your Birth Control
President Trump is coming for our pill. He wants to make it easier for your boss to remove birth control from your health coverage. The new rule would amend Obama’s coverage requirements so that even companies with no religious affiliation will be able to deny birth control to their employees. It more than irks me to see a bunch of old white men making decisions that affect women’s lives, and using religion as a mask to discriminate and disadvantage.
Opening up the law to allow any business, company, or university to dictate whether or not they cover women’s birth control is outrageous. On a whim your boss may be able to decide whether or not you deserve to have affordable, reasonable access to birth control. Someone who has no personal connection to you can make a decision affecting your personal life, predicated on their beliefs.
Women already have to pay taxes on products for our periods. Products which should be a right, not a privilege. Tampons, pads, and cups - whatever your preference - should be provided by the government. Let’s do the math. Women have their periods for about 40 years of their lives. Once a month, women will have their period for anywhere between three to seven days. You have to change a tampon, at the very least, every eight hours (majority of women will do this much more often). A box of 36 tampons is roughly $8, so - if we take the goldilocks option of very easy, light flow periods using three tampons a day for your entire m...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
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