Maine passes law to allow 12-month supply of birth control

[primalmatter]

You're already paying for Viagra, and that really doesn't have any health benefits.

You have the internet at your disposal, stop being ignorant.

Making a problem worse isn't making it better...

[Deleted]

It's almost as if BC had other uses than just not having kids, like regulating menstruation.

For the vast majority of women, its only taken for its birth control effect.

[Sky High]

Your personal health isn't affected in any way by me not liking condoms.

you're right not me personally but I find it incredibly irresponsible, borderline dangerous to tell people not to use them.

[Mifuyne]

Because it's a barrier between you and your partner, less intimate.

Oh no, this condom makes me so far out of touch with my partner that sex turns from super awesome to super terrible.

[Freighter]

People can, and should be able to be more responsible for their medical decisions.

People can't check for the things that doctors can and don't know the things that doctors know.

[Machismo]

Except knowing what meds interact negatively with other meds is generally not publicly available, and a person risks fucking themselves up because of it. You dont fuck with hormones, period.

Why not make it publicly available? I support a fully-informed public. If a company wants to hide the dangers of a product, then it is responsible (criminally) for the outcome, problem solved.

[Deleted]

You're already paying for Viagra, and that really doesn't have any health benefits.

Viagra has medical benefits too.

[Freighter]

you're right not me personally but I find it incredibly irresponsible, borderline dangerous to tell people not to use them.

Hardly. If you're exclusive with someone then using condoms would just be silly.

[Machismo]

People can't check for the things that doctors can and don't know the things that doctors know.

It's not difficult to find information on various drugs, and the risk of possible interactions with other medications.

[Freighter]

Oh no, this condom makes me so far out of touch with my partner that sex turns from super awesome to super terrible.

You might not care much about it but others do. No reason to be so flippant about it just because you don't care about it.

[Belize]

For the vast majority of women, its only taken for its birth control effect.

Fuck the rest amiright

Let's stop covering painkillers, because a lot of people abuse those as feel-good drugs too.

[Mifuyne]

Hardly. If you're exclusive with someone then using condoms would just be silly.

What if they're not exclusive with you?

You might not care much about it but others do. No reason to be so flippant about it just because you don't care about it.

Oh I do care, it feels different from using a condom and not using one. But going all extremist on the effects of what it does to you speaks volumes.

[Crissi]

Why not make it publicly available? I support a fully-informed public. If a company wants to hide the dangers of a product, then it is responsible (criminally) for the outcome, problem solved.

Because your solution puts people at risk. In this case, your "freedom" is actually worse than gov't regulation.

but I know how you work, and I dont feel like getting into BUT MAH FREEDOMS argument.

[Freighter]

What if they're not exclusive with you?

Then it's not being exclusive...

[Machismo]

Because your solution puts people at risk. In this case, your "freedom" is actually worse than gov't regulation.

but I know how you work, and I dont feel like getting into BUT MAH FREEDOMS argument.

My solution allows for people to put themselves at risk. I'm not saying they shouldn't go to a doctor, merely that they should be able to make more of those decisions on their own.

[Freighter]

It's not difficult to find information on various drugs, and the risk of possible interactions with other medications.

Yeah, let's just incur massive costs on society because you think people should be personally responsible to know what medicines interacts with what and how, what the side effects are.

[Deleted]

People can, and should be able to be more responsible for their medical decisions.

Yeah, those loosers who spent more than half a decade in school learning to be doctors, We should just embrace DIY healtcare.

It's not that difficult for people to be informed of their medical issues, as well as the dangers of specific medications.

You do know a unintended medical interactions is a serious problem? (because, A, we don't know all interactions, B, most doctors don't know them all)

Once again, it's just another way to have more government involvement than is actually needed. Let people be responsible for themselves.

It's a way of keeping people from harming themselves - It has nothing to do with government.

[padie]

People can, and should be able to be more responsible for their medical decisions.

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It's not that difficult for people to be informed of their medical issues, as well as the dangers of specific medications.

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Once again, it's just another way to have more government involvement than is actually needed. Let people be responsible for themselves.

Yes, no one has ever miss used/abused drugs before. Addicts don't exist and people can be responsible. Also everyone can be a 1%er

[Belize]

Viagra has medical benefits too.

Sure, it helps with jet lag in hamsters.

[Machismo]

Yeah, let's just incur massive costs on society because you think people should be personally responsible to know what medicines interacts with what and how, what the side effects are.

They can still go to a doctor if they like. If you don't want to make those decisions on your own, then don't.