a thought brought on by an earlier thread--WHY isn't big pharma telling these anti-choice cretins

[niyad]

to just shut up? after all, if these woman-hating cretins get their way and make contraception illegal, isn't that going to cut into big pharma's profits? you would think they would be a bit p'o'ed about this.

[snot]

1. More pregnancy => more sickness & more people, and so on.

Pregnancy is much more hazardous to women's health than contraception and so much more profitable.

I'm not saying I'm certain that this is their calculation, just that if profits are the criterion, they make more from more pregnancies and a bigger population.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Maybe they figure they have more to gain overall

with a Republican in office who won't force them into competitive pricing.

[Vincardog]

2. It is never going to happen. The cretins spew their hate and never expect

to have it take effect. How else could they maintain their "persecuted" status?
It is just like Abortion. If they were so opposed to it they would FAVOR birth control and make
the dreaded abortion unnecessary. Reality and rationality never inflict themselves
on the reactionary radicals.

[banned from Kos]

3. aren't birth control pills generic by now? I doubt Big Pharma would notice

a loss in the sales of those pills.

they notice when something like Lipitor goes off patent.

[tanyev]

4. I've always wondered why big business hasn't come out strong for universal health care.

That's one thing that would save them tons of money. Small business, too. If people didn't have to try and get health insurance from an employer, an employer that was too small to offer it would be just as desirable as a large employer.

[banned from Kos]

6. they get to deduct health-care and insurance costs from their taxes.

but not salaries.

[tanyev]

9. Ah. But still, is the deduction larger than what it costs them?

[Jackpine Radical]

13. You answered your own question.

Health insurance is a major tool that big business uses to hold down competition from small businesses. The big guys can negotiate low rates with their large employee pools, while the small guys get stiffed with whatever the insurance companies want to charge them.

[4whomthebelletrolls]

5. I am a woman and I am pro-life

although I don't stay up at night about abortions. I just don't like the easy-breezy-Covergirl coloring of the issue as no biggie.

Oh, and I forgot to add that I am insulted by your depiction of a person like me as a cretin.

[CTyankee]

8. You might want to think harder about characterizing the decision to terminate a pregnancy

as "easy-breezy-Covergirl coloring of the issue as no biggie."

Oh, and let me add that I am a woman and pro-choice, and I find that characterization insulting.

[4whomthebelletrolls]

12. The word 'choice' is too pat

I know someone who had seven abortions. WTF, man?

[CTyankee]

14. well, what is YOUR solution to the woman who had seven abortions?

Would you force her to carry each and every pregnancy to term and become a mother against her will? What will you do to stop her from finding an abortion, even if you make it illegal? Have the law forceably "detain" her against her will?

As the saying goes, "If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?"

[kdmorris]

15. Perhaps if she were given access to birth control

she would have had MORE choices...

Abortion is not a choice that women make lightly, you know.

[2ndAmForComputers]

24. Yeah, you probably know a welfare queen who went around in a Cadillac, too.

Uh-huh. Right.

[niyad]

16. notice that this particular troll didn't last long.

the name was a dead giveaway, as was the "I knew a woman who had seven abortions"

[CTyankee]

18. he/she's gone? good! I thought that would happen but I just got fed up and decided

to raise a little hell with her/him/it.

[niyad]

19. oh, yes, it is always fun to play with the trolls before they go away.

I need to sharpen my claws every once in a while. . .

[CTyankee]

21. this one was particularly sicko. A diseased mind.

I just saw some of it's other stuff here. Pretty awful and demented. Sucks to be him/her/it.

[niyad]

22. I saw one OP--yeck

[Iris]

28. No more tombstones?

That was the most gratifying part of watching a troll go down!

[niyad]

30. the tombstone was emotionally satisfying, true. now, there is just a note that says "posting

privileges revoked"

[physioex]

17. I am a male and I am also "pro-life"......

But that is my personal life. And as a proud Planned Parenthood supporter I will defend any woman's right to choose.

[niyad]

20. but, didn't you know? you are supposed to want to make the choice for every woman, since she

is clearly too stupid to do it for herself.

[2ndAmForComputers]

23. The description is accurate. Don't like it? Tough.

[cleanhippie]

27. Are you anti-choice?

If you are, then you probably fit the description in the OP exactly.

Welcome to DU. Enjoy your stay.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. One of the stranger wingnut comments I saw this week

was from a guy who actually claimed that the Catholic church is not opposed to medication that contains the same drugs as birth control pills and not used for contraception, but to treat other conditions.

Hello?! It's called the birth control pill. Do people believe pharma packages these pills differently and gives them a new name when they are prescribed for endometriosos, etc? LOL

[JVS]

10. It isn't about legality, it's about insurance covering contraception. Within that context...

the pharma companies would rather deal with isolated consumers than with insurance companies who carry enough clout to negotiate lower prices.

[MisterP]

25. the GOP, at least since 1980, is a coalition of 1. Establishment/big business, 2. fundamentalists

(mostly Evangelical but sharing more than some questions of law with mainline prelates), 3. libertarians, 4. militarists

it's caused quite a boil, especially around #1

[cleanhippie]

26. Because they know this is a non-issue and they don't want to get involved.

A non-issue for them, I mean to say. The pill is not going anywhere, you know it, I know it, and they know it. They see no reason to wade into this shitstorm and get dirty. Thats why I think they are silent in the issue.

[Iris]

29. Exactly.

[madokie]

31. I think big pharma is making so much money

that this won't bother them much at all. Might help them determine where to spend their money on what politician in the future. Money has neither cares nor a conscience