Health benefits for women - Free for all

The contraception should be provided free of charge as part of preventative medicine.
Nearly 99 percent of all women have relied on contraception at some point in their lives. And yet, more than half of all women between the ages of 18 and 34 have struggled to afford it. When birth control is free, it reduces the number of unwanted pregnancies, and drastically lower abortion rates. Some women cannot even afford contraception or don’t have the insurance. With all the greed in this world, a budget for free contraception is not only necessary because of rape, experimentation of sexuality and any other reasons to one’s benefit, but plausible to women and society.
According to Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, for one rape happens every two seconds in the United States, this means children are accidentally conceived every two seconds.

Birth control doesn’t simply reduce unwanted pregnancies. It also reduces abortions. In the New England Journal study, the mean abortion rate among participants was less than one-fourth the rate for sexually active 14- to 19-year-old women nationally. That’s a pretty massive difference. Some social conservatives don’t consider that argument relevant, because they think women can and should avoid pregnancy through other methods. To the rest of us, however, those numbers sure look like a powerful case for making birth control free.

Also, on July 3, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced that, thanks to a public-private partnership on contraception access, the state’s teen birth rate dropped by 40 percent and the teen abortion rate dropped by 35 percent in a four-year period.

Obamacare decided to follow the judgment of the nation’s leading medical experts and make sure that free preventative care includes access to free contraceptive care.

Now, as we move to implement this rule, however, we have been mindful that there is another principle at stake here – and that’s the principle of religious liberty, an inalienable right that is protected in our Constitution. Women finally have the choice to get something that was not available for them before. As a citizen and as a Christian, the government wants to cherish this rights. Some of religion have a religious objection to directly providing insurance that covers contraceptive services for their employees. So, government originally exempted all churches from this requirement. Religious employer health plans can provide contraceptive coverage through a third party.

Under the rule, women will still have access to free preventative care that includes contraceptive services – no matter where they work. But if a woman’s employer is a charity or a hospital that has a religious objection to providing contraceptive services as part of their health plan, the insurance company will be require to reach out and offer the woman contraceptive care free of charge.

Whether you are a teacher, or a small businesswoman, or a nurse, or a janitor, no woman’s health should depend on who she is or where she works or how much money she makes. Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health. This basic principle is already the law in 28 states across the country.