Why do we pay for these bad ‘choices?’

The use of contraceptives is a lifestyle choice made by those engaging in “love making.” The purchase of contraceptives is not prohibited by any laws, and they are available everywhere. Why pick on religious hospitals? Need money, run a Bingo game in your church, just leave mine alone.

We all know that contraceptives are not a medicine, they cure no illness, therefore their use does not require hospital care or clinic health services. Those who say otherwise are liars. Correction, after usage for a prolonged period of time, they can cause health problems, sometimes aggravating a pre-existing medical condition.

Setting aside one’s decision to use contraceptives on a regular basis, there remains the question of who should pay for the woman’s “pursuit of happiness” or for the wrecked lives of others who “chose” to ingest destructive chemicals and hazardous lifestyles? What about AIDS, STDS, smoking, drugs, alcoholism and irresponsible behavior that afflicts bodily harm to those who indulge in them? These problems arise, with few exceptions, from bad “choices.” And now the government wants to pick my pocket to pay for these messed up lives.

Well, I want choices also. I want school choice in education, but I am told that it is unconstitutional even though my tax dollars are demanded for purposes of education. No ‘choice’ there. However, when it comes to lifestyles that are immoral and imprudent advocates for this “choice” contend the Constitution does speak to these issues and in the affirmative. Where is it in the Constitution written that I must pay for self-induced medical problems and the poison that caused it? Silence is not an answer.

Those who are demanding it are thieves and my enemy. If upheld I must begin to deal with these persons on that bases. The only “choice” I have left.

Joan Solms

Aurora