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You may not realize this, but this would be a wedge issue that would split the conservative coalition apart.

Contraception is here to stay. This isn't a hotly debated issue like abortion. There is no chance at all that this nation is going to even consider restricting contraception. It is just not going to happen.

But it’s a stupid issue. Why should conrtaceptives be a political issue, at all? It’s a medical and moral issue. It’s only political, now, because of Democrat stupidity, getting Government involved in healthcare. I think it’s a great issue the way it is, now, for conservatives to “demagogue”, since it highlights the idiocy of making medicine political.

What, does Jindal think he’ll get the “womyn’s” vote with this? Because he won’t.

Why do we want to out-stupid the Democrats? Over the counter means pretty much all medical (and parental) control is given up. B.C. is as safe as cough-drops? For 12-year-olds? I don’t believe it, and frankly, I think its effect on our society has been devastating. I suppose we’re leaving a pretty nice country for the Mohammadens or the hispanics, if they can keep it.

You may not realize this, but this would be a wedge issue that would split the conservative coalition apart.
No it wouldn't.

It will if taxpayers have to pay for it. More teens would be using the welfare card to buy it because it's so easy. Even those who aren't active now will become active once the pill is an over the counter freebie.
The tax payers will once again take a huge hit.
If all funding is cut (no welfare cards can be used to buy it), then I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem. Our hands would be clean.

If this part is left out and the faithful are forced to pay for the additional costs, THEN there will be a problem.

No it wouldn't. The number of conservatives that want to ban contraception is tiny. Classifying the birth control pill as 'over the counter' is most certainly not going to split the conservative coalition.

If opposition to an aggressive expansion of the ingredients of Plan B (The morning after pill, not the tax plan) to be made freely to children anywhere and everywhere is not controversial among conservatives, then it would have simply happened long ago, unless it really is a drug that requires a doctor's supervision for safe (to the taker) use.

Fewer than 50 years ago, liberal Connecticut had prohibited the sale of such things, leading to the awful Griswold v. CT decision, which in turn led to Roe v. Wade. The lefties supported the law being overturned. None of us has any idea how the debate will shape over the next 50 years.

Twenty years ago, Constitutional Concealed-Carry wasn't an issue, but those who recognize the right to defense as God-given never abandoned it, even though it wasn't widely discussed outside of the narrowest circles, and even then, mainly as an academic exercise, much as the Tenth Amendment is today.

Even those who don't see the banning of abortifacient contraception a discussion we can have today, their philosophical underpinnings would repel them from the further promotion of these poisonous drugs. Don't say it won't be a wedge issue because you don't think it should be one. You don't understand the mindset of a Natural Law conservative. Find people who don't like the idea whether it would be a deal-breaker or not. Until you do, you are unable to tell whether it is a wedge issue or not.