Moving forward as of yesterday – women are no longer required to pay a copay for 8 different benefits – that means there are fewer costs out of pocket for these services that they would have otherwise paid. These are important preventative services that will save lives and every woman should have access to. And conservatives are up in arms about it.
Why are conservatives against women who have insurance not having to pay for these preventative health services? Why are conservatives doing everything they can to repeal this and force women to start paying for these benefits?
This chart is courtesy of the Center for American Progress HERE.
As Rachel Maddow showed last night – conservative Mike Kelly (R-PA) compared giving women access to free birth control as being a day that will live in infamy like when America was attacked at Pearl Harbor and the terrorist attack of 9/11. Really?
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[...] It’s a holy war; a war that says women do not have the right to make their own decisions with their body. It’s a war that says conservatives are going to tell a woman she must endure a vaginal probing (which is TERRIBLY uncomfortable) because conservatism says even if you get raped … you should have that rapist’s baby. I guess you should have been on the pill huh? Well – conservatives don’t want you on the pill either. Even though Viagra is covered for free under insurance for men … conservatives have compared women having access to FREE contraception courtesy of Obamacare akin to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. No I am not kidding you (source). [...]