Birth control within everyone’s budget

Orie Brown made the typical excuses as to why employers should provide their employees with free birth control ('Birth control reduces abortions, pregnancies,” April 27). These arguments never include free condoms for the men. Sort of hypocritical, I think. These same people keep hollering for the government to keep out of their bedrooms, all the while demanding free contraception for what goes on in the bedroom. Also sort of hypocritical.

They claim it's all about pushing religious beliefs, but these beliefs are primarily against the providing of abortion-causing 'contraceptives,” which aren't contraceptives at all. So that is a straw man argument. Everyone can afford birth control. It's called self-control and abstinence; you know, being responsible for your actions.

I've been told a woman can get a month's supply of birth control for as little as $9. If people can afford to eat out or buy a pack of cigarettes, why can't they afford their own birth control? There is no reason employers - let alone insurance companies - should be required to provide birth control. If an insurance company decides that is cheaper than paying for children, that should be their decision and not the decision of a nanny government.

Glenn E. Chatfield

North Liberty