Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  december writes:  in
response to lipservice:  "people who are truly too poor for
women's health services should technically qualify for
Medicaid..." But they don't. Isn't it less expensive to pay for
birth control than to pay for the child's needs after the fact?
That doesn't make sense. Witholding aid is (in my opinion)
punitive. Punishing women for having sex. No one, of course, is
punishing the men.  Truly poor people DO qualify for Medicaid if
they take the time to fill out the paperwork. If they don't
qualify because they make too much money, then they should have
enough money to budget for birth control. No one is "punishing"
anyone for having sex, but if you can't afford a baby or the
resources to prevent it, then you shouldn't be having sex. The
argument that men aren't being punished doesn't really make
sense because they aren't physically capable of being pregnant.
Women are not being punished, they are being asked to be
responsible individuals according to