Just when you thought the arguments couldn’t get any lamer, along comes a group of students at the University of New Mexico to blame the federal government for not funding their ability to have casual sex on demand… or at least for not providing the funds to help them escape the responsibilities that may result from a sexual relationship.
ALBUQUERQUE - University of New Mexico students are worried the federal deficit is going to cause a boom in unwanted pregnancies.
UNM is now feeling the affects of the Deficit Reduction Act passed in 2005 whose funding cuts reduce money used by universities to subsidize birth control.
The price of birth control on campuses and family planning clinics has more than doubled. Today students at UNM encouraged their peers to call and ask lawmakers to cosponsor a bill that would return the funding for birth control.
Has it gotten this absurd that people are now blaming the federal government for conception?
“Birth control is probably the largest preventative measure of abortion and unwanted pregnancies, just because it’s safe, it’s affordable,” UNM Molly Maguire-Marshall said. “Sometimes it’s accessible, and we want to keep it that way.
Actually, Molly, abstinence is the largest preventative measure. Maybe if they could control their hormones they wouldn’t have to worry about how they’re going to fund their next abortion.
Restoring the funds will reduce the squeeze on cash-strapped students, added Ambrosia Ortiz.
“So they don’t have to make a choice between their birth control and their cell phone bill or their birth control and their gym membership and their birth control,” Ortiz said. “These are choices that women shouldn’t have to make.
Yes, actually they are. It’s called personal responsibility. How about instead of crying for the federal government (aka we taxpayers) to bail you out everytime you hook up at a kegger, you start learning some personal responsibility and make the choice to skip the sexual activity if you can’t afford a child or to fund your own birth control practices.
Then again, considering the completely ridiculous line of reasoning from these folks, maybe I should reconsider helping fund their inability to procreate. The world needs fewer idiots.
