Regarding Julie Muhlstein’s Wednesday column, “Limbaugh aside, contraception remains a hot topic”: Ms. Muhlstein, you did it again. You used a popular conservative commentator to “make” me read your column — a column that I have now read twice since boycotting you after a headline called me a “greedy simpleton” several years ago.
Ms. Muhlstein, Limbaugh’s comments were inappropriate — agreed. But that’s the extent of our agreement. Given that you presented only one side of the debate in your column, my assumption is that you like the idea of paying for other women’s contraception pills either by your taxes or insurance premiums. I don’t. I don’t believe it is a woman’s right to have someone else pay for their desire not to get pregnant. Yes, sometimes birth control pills are used for medical reasons, but then we’re talking about medical necessity, aren’t we, not birth control.
I support a women’s right to make and keep this personal decision private. Just don’t go asking for someone else to pay for that choice. Sorry, ladies, your rights stop at my wallet. I don’t get why this isn’t obvious. Forcing me to pay for your birth control?
Lee Wilner
Everett
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