...Birth control access is an emerging issue, especially in the United States due to the recent presidential election. Conservatives want to defund Planned Parenthood, in turn making access to birth control limited. In opposition, liberals support expansion of birth control to all American women. This difference in opinions has caused an uproar among U.S. citizens, bringing attention to the issue. Decreasing access to birth control can be worse than most people may realize. If birth control is restricted, the rates of unplanned pregnancy will rise. This will put more women out of work, and will subsequently put a damper on the United States economy. According to Richards’ article ‘Protecting and Expanding Access to Birth Control’, this is due...
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...000 range (Rosenthal, 2013). In the midst of the debate, and while Republicans and Democrats alike may claim that they want the best health care available for all American people, in the media more often than not this argument comes down to dollars and cents. However, it is of course too simplistic to say that only the power of money and no other forces are at play here. In this paper I will present the case of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly referred to as Obamacare, as it relates to a number of different political and economic ideologies presented in readings and in lecture. The goal of the ACA is to increase the quality and affordability of medical care and health insurance options in the United States through a dramatic overhaul of the current system. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010, however the law and its many parts have been debated by both major U.S. political parties and the debate continued to rage even after the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling that most provisions in the ACA were constitutional (The...
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