The desperate ones I guarantee you.
We are talking about people with mostly solid jobs, and insurance coverage, not the desperate people on the fringe. If you have a steady job, but you aren't disciplined enough to take a tiny portion of your income to pay for contraception, then you probably aren't disciplined enough to effectively use the pill. Condoms don't have to be used every day, only when you have sex, but they are not covered. I guess these people could get some sort of contraceptive implant, but what percentage of these desperate people will do that?
Considering everything that has to come together for this policy to make a difference, there is a not small chance that you would be preventing exactly zero additional births.
The people in question are only
1 - Women (cutting off half the population)
2 - Who are sexually active (a very large percentage, but every additional qualifier reduces the number at the end)
3 - Who are fertile (again another large percentage, but a slight reduction here)
4 - Who don't currently want children (a rather large percentage, but still more people are eliminated)
5 - Who have jobs with insurance, but are financially so over the edge that they can't pay this modest expense (cutting off a lot more people, people on welfare, or going through bankruptcies, can reasonably afford contraception)
6 - Who work for the Catholic Church or a church connected organization (a very small fraction, this requirement massively reduces the number of people in question)
7 - Who, if they have the compensation that this coverage represents, but as part of their paycheck rather than as coverage, would spend it, even though they seriously want contraception.
8 - Who despite the fact that they are sexually active and don't want to get pregnant, would not get free or reduced cost, or otherwise very cheap contraception that is available from a number of sources.
9 - Who don't use condoms, or don't use them correctly, or are unlucky enough to have a condom fail at the wrong time even if it is used correctly.
9 - Who despite the irresponsibility inherent in passing the last few requirements, would still use hormonal contraception, and use it correctly/reliably, if it was covered by insurance (this cuts out most of the people that are left, likely an overwhelming majority, possibly even all of them, although there could easily be a handful left)
10 - And who wouldn't be lucky enough to just randomly avoid getting pregnant (assuming they are regularly sexually active and fertile, the percentage here is small, its larger for those who are not very active and/or not very fertile)
If it is the difference between getting a contraceptive they want and need
It isn't. Contraception is widely available and not extremely expensive.
Why not just stay out of the morality game Tim?
Forcing the church to pay for such coverage for its employees is putting yourself in to the morality game.
Staying out of the morality game is "live and let live". It's "You want to do X, or use Y, of have Z, go ahead, as long as its all consenting adults, and your not imposing on someone else". Imposing on someone else who doesn't want to get involved, isn't staying out, or letting them stay out. |
