Fox News Host: Affordable birth control is liberal plot to wipe out poor people
Public health officials and women’s rights groups are cheering the recent recommendation of the Institute of Medicine that ‘health insurers should pay for a range of services for women at no cost, including birth control, counseling on sexually transmitted diseases, and AIDS screening.’
But unsurprisingly, many on the right immediately lashed out at the decision, denouncing it as ‘feminist pork’ or tantamount to government-sponsored abortion. Some particularly vile reactions came from Fox News, where host Greg Gutfeld said eliminating birth control co-pays was part of a much more sinister leftist plot:
GUTFELD: If you’re talking about free birth control, who’s going to use free birth control? The people who can’t afford it. So the left has figured out a way to eradicate the poor, and it’s by eradicating the poor!
On another Fox News segment, the contributor and host decided that birth control wasn’t necessary if women would ‘just stop having irresponsible sex.’