After the discussion about whether or not the government should have involvement with insurance companies to pay for birth control pills, I had many different ideas floating in my head. The video that we watched on Jon Stewart was showing the visual about the girl who gets the pill is then only viewed to have sex with every person that they see. And this actually infuriated me. I've seen it one too many times that people who ask their parents if they can go on birth control say no. They immediately fall to the assumption that their child wants to have sex. that is clearly not the case at all. it could be, but not necessarily. the pill isn't just a method of birth control, it also regulates periods and controls woman who have heavy periods. And for something that I didn't know came from Brianne, a girl in my class. Her story was that she used to to moderate her hormones in her body. That came to a shock to me, but didn't surprise me too much that the pill could do a lot more than what people think it could do.
Something else that I wanted to talk about was what someone in the class talked about. Didn't remember who said it. But I remember they said something along the lines that they didn't care about the pills. It's the girls' responsibility to get it themselves and shouldn't be the responsibility of the insurance company or the government. I feel that assuming she's getting the pill for sex, then that's a two way street. The pill shouldn't be just for the girl. It's for the guy too. I'm not saying the guy should pay for the pill, but the responsibility of making the choice to use the pill isn't just the girls' choice. The guy is having sex, too...
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