President Obama's administration and the U.S. Senate just reversed a dumb-assed portion of the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act that prevented pharmaceutical companies from providing low-cost birth control to women who needed it. Not only that, but it cut $14 million in funding from the Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program that promoted a no-sex-until-marriage line. Though it didn’t prevent babies from being born or STDs from spreading, we do shed a tear for the loss of funding to an idea that helped provide the ideal environment for the creation of the term “Saddlebacking.”
Hurrah to common sense, and a big yay to lower-cost birth control pills. And Barrack? I couldn’t love you more than I do right now.
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