It was announced in the Budget that free contraception will be made available for women between 17 and 25.
Good news, I think. It would be better if it was available for women of every age but there is a quite bizarre article in today's Irish Times by Finn McRedmond saying that "It ought not be thought radical to suggest that women will continue to lack reproductive freedom so long as the cost of childcare precludes anyone from starting a family on account of their financial circumstances." It's a remarkable statement and a remarkable argument, that the State should provide the resourced to anyone and everyone who wants to have children or else those people aren't really 'free'.
It seems that in a liberal society nobody should have to take financial responsibility for the children they have. Speaking as a liberal I find that sort of thinking just bonkers and grist to the mill of conservatives who say that liberals are crazy because in this case they are right; this is a crazy idea. Stupid. Daft. Nuts. Finn should have been laughed out of the editors office and told that the Irish Times isn't some First Year college newsletter.
Good news, I think. It would be better if it was available for women of every age but there is a quite bizarre article in today's Irish Times by Finn McRedmond saying that "It ought not be thought radical to suggest that women will continue to lack reproductive freedom so long as the cost of childcare precludes anyone from starting a family on account of their financial circumstances." It's a remarkable statement and a remarkable argument, that the State should provide the resourced to anyone and everyone who wants to have children or else those people aren't really 'free'.
It seems that in a liberal society nobody should have to take financial responsibility for the children they have. Speaking as a liberal I find that sort of thinking just bonkers and grist to the mill of conservatives who say that liberals are crazy because in this case they are right; this is a crazy idea. Stupid. Daft. Nuts. Finn should have been laughed out of the editors office and told that the Irish Times isn't some First Year college newsletter.