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Birth control matters! Making birth control available at no cost is the single most important step we can take to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. The time has come make it available at no cost to every woman who wants it...

In an ideal world we would not have to keep fighting for these settled scientific and legal rights anymore than we have to fight for the right to teach our children the Earth revolves about the Sun but that is the world we live in. Please sign to help make sure that the latest in reproductive technology is available to all Americans.
Some who oppose the idea of a woman controlling her reproductive life on religious grounds wrap their orthodoxy in scientific clothing, but it usually does not fit.  Some claim oral contraceptives elevate some forms of cancer (which is true in breast cancer, for example, especially among smoking women) but fail to point out that other cancer risks are lowered (such as ovarian and endometrial cancer) . The National Cancer Institute has a good fact sheet on these risks. 
The FDA has looked hard at the data for and against OCPs and feels the benefits outweigh the risks. At any rate, the family planning services include a whole panoply of interventions including barrier contraception that most certainly has not been shown to increase any form of cancer but has been shown to decrease HIV, hepatitis, and STD transmission rates, as well as unintended pregnancies (and hence abortion), and deaths. 
Some on the religious right are trying to make a case for denial of all family planning services to poor women of all faiths because some women (but mostly men) of one faith would not personally choose to use such services.   I usually ask them whether, if the Vatican reversed Humane Vitae, would they be looking for reasons to justify such a denial? And if the Vatican does not reverse itself, is there any scientific evidence that would ever compel them  to oppose the Vatican's position? 
If not, then they've already made up their minds, so there is really no reason to interject science into what is essentially a religious position.  
I do not believe any of us has a right to use the government to impose our religious beliefs, beliefs most certainly not shared by all faiths or even all denominations of Christianity, on all women, especially poor ones who may have nowhere else to turn except publicly funded services. Trying to dress up such a religiously-driven policy in scientific garb misleads women also about the rationale for their denial of care if religious lobbyists and interest groups prevail.

The inappropriateness of using the government to impose our religious beliefs on those who do not share them should be, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, self-evident.