The "WAr On Women??"

[StrictMasterD]

According to this site, "14% of pill users—1.5 million women—rely on them exclusively for noncontraceptive purposes." and that "more than half (58%) of all pill users rely on the method, at least in part, for purposes other than pregnancy prevention—meaning that only 42% use the pill exclusively for contraceptive reasons."

That's a lot of women who use the pill for reasons other than exclusively to prevent pregnancy.

Thank You, for exspandingon what I have said Birth Control Pills are NOT used EXCLUSIVELY for Birth Control, and in this country (The UnitedStates if you do not wantto use them DON"T, all they laws says if you WANT TO they are paid for, that is NOT A MANDATE to getthem

[Thorne]

all they laws says if you WANT TO they are paid for, that is NOT A MANDATE to getthem

And, contrary to Limbaugh's bloviating, even if you do use the pill to prevent pregnancy, it doesn't mean you are using it so you can have unfettered sex as many times as you want with anyone you wish. Married couples use it so they can enjoy sex without worrying about the wife getting pregnant with a baby that they cannot afford and do not want. That doesn't mean they will hump like rabbits, all day every day. And, contrary to Limbaugh's implications, you don't take a pill every time you have sex. Unless you're using the aspirin technique.

[js207]

And, contrary to Limbaugh's implications, you don't take a pill every time you have sex. Unless you're using the aspirin technique.

As I recall, Limbaugh was mocking Fluke's hugely inflated claimed costs of buying contraception when 'the pill' was documented as being commercially sold for $9 per month within about 3 blocks of her university, as well as available free from Planned Parenthood and others - and, apparently, covered by the university's health plan as long as it's for non-contraceptive medical reasons, too. If I appeared in public complaining about how terrible a burden it is having to pay $300 per day* to commute to work, would it not be reasonable to mock my apparent international detour?

As you point out, greater activity wouldn't account for the greater costs, so someone calculated it in terms of contraception which does vary with usage instead - giving the figures of multiple times per day some then pointed to.

(* Fluke was claiming the $9/month pill Planned Parenthood give for free amounted to $1000 per year; $300/day would be roughly my current commuting costs inflated by a similar amount. Sadly for me, Planned Parenthood don't offer free transportation, though I suppose I could try switching to bus rather than train...)