I just couldn't let this comment go by, although it's probably old by now.  You say you wouldn't want to pay for someone else's birth control, that they should be responsible, right?  I bet you would hate even more paying for someone's abortion, and I'd further the bet by saying that you'd resent paying for social programs for someone else's child.  Am I pretty close to your feelings?  Well, here are mine--we don't live in a perfect world and not everyone is as close to being the wonderful responsible person you are, and some try but slip up.  In my mind, people have always had sex whether it was under perfect conditions or not and society has had many ways of dealing with it throughout the ages.  We no longer force teenaged couples into shotgun weddings that never seemed to last anyway.  We no longer send girls off to visit some faraway aunt and actually give their child up for adoption, or should they decide to keep it be foreced to wear that scarlet letter and their child as well.  We do have social programs, and if we have the heart of Christ, we can see that no child asks to be born or gets to choose the circumstances that they are born to.  If you really are against abortion and also resent programs to help single moms and poor children along, it would seem to me that you'd be all for free birth control and what as many poor women to have access to it as possible.  Unless you think that they should pay for their irresponsible actions with a child. . .that you will ultimately pay for.  . .if she doesn't get an abortion.  So weigh in the values and as far as I can see birth control for poor women. . .for all woman who want it. . .is a very good thing that everyone with a heart, and a brain, and maybe even a little shot of courage, should stand up and shout for!!!  Thanks for listening to yet a different POV.