Wait, spermicide? The last time I heard of that was in sexual education, where they said not to use that shit because of its really low reliability.
Feels weird that the US government would target that product in particular.
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It's not a bad thing to have as a backup for a condom; the main issue is that some of the spermicides increase HIV transmission risk, so you typically don't see condoms with spermicide in the lube anymore.
I always thought it was spermicide on the inside, lube on the outside.
Maybe I'm confused. In any case, I don't think i can buy them locally anymore.
Oh, I meant spermicide creams in place of condoms.
I didn't know about the spermicide condoms at all.
Or... Forget about insurers and just make them free for everyone
Hmm, maybe there are particular challenges to free medications? Even Quebec's most left-wing mainstream party, Québec Solidaire, doesn't quite go as far as free drugs for all, afaik.
Not that the idea doesn't sound lovely.
Tons of countries offer free contraceptives and some (including France) offers free condoms (to those aged 18 to 25 in France). Free pill and IUD are coming to Canada as well (announced in March).
For real? Amazing. I need to follow the local news more, sheesh.
I feel like Biden should just say fuck it, and try to pass as much as he can like there's no tommorrow. Because for him, there pretty much isn't.
The problem is that the things he can do without congressional support can be easily overturned by the next President — and the Republicans have a majority in the House of Representatives.
Better to try and give a possible future Democratic majority an easy shoe-in precedent for writing the law, or give a future Republican majority extra busywork and lawsuits and court time to do, than to never do anything at all.
For sure. I just don't expect it to be durable unless we elect Harris.
I’d think birth control would be cheaper for insurers than covering unplanned pregnancies anyway.
Just man up and nationalize all major forms of insurance you fucker.
It's not about "man up" — it's about having the votes in Congress to do it. We didn't have that in 2009, when we last tried, and I'd be surprised if we have them now
I mean I wasn’t particularly serious it’s more about the DNC even having anything close to that as policy which would be nice but they won’t.
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