McCain Isn’t Talking – Birth Control and Viagra July 11, 2008

John McCain isn’t talking about birth control. 

The video below shows McCain squirming and stammering when asked about his voting record on providing women with birth control.  There is something blatantly unfair when health insurance plans pay for Viagra but not birth control. A man has a right to an erection but a woman doesn’t have the right to choose when and how many children to have?

Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America:

“During his twenty-five years in office, Sen. McCain has consistently voted to block low-income women’s access to birth control, to deny our teens accurate information about birth control and condoms, to stop measures that would require insurance companies to cover birth control, and to prevent funds to an organization that provides family-planning services – not abortion – for the world’s poorest women. Voters need to know that John McCain is not only against abortion, he is against birth control.”

Here are the facts (sourced from Planned Parenthood):

• More than 200 million women wish to avoid or delay pregnancy and who do not have access to modern contraception. Every minute of every day, a woman dies from a pregnancy-related cause.
• More than 33 million people live with HIV/AIDS; 2.5 million people were infected in 2007 alone.
• Over 1.3 billion people living in abject poverty , on less than $1 a day; the majority are women.
• 19 million women have unsafe abortions every year, the majority in developing countries.
• An estimated 68,000 women die each year as a result of complications related to unsafe abortions.

Women and men worldwide deserve access to the preventive family planning services that can help them plan and space their children and make responsible decisions about their lives and their futures.

And not have to kill themselves trying to get it.

posted with vodpod

Resources:

• NARAL Pro-choice America
• Planned Parenthood

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