joy and shadows

I'd thought about this issue while posting the previous reply, and here's the best I've been able to come up with. When the government takes my tax dollars, I have some influence, via the ballot box, over how that money is spent (and please pay no attention to the political naiveté behind the curtain). I know that I will never get everything I want from this process, but nor will anybody else. This is called compromise.

So it's not birth control that's the issue, it's that the government is mandating every citizen purchase a product from the private sector regardless of any moral opposition and (the important part) with no direct accountability or path for recourse. For example, I would not support a law saying that every homeowner was required to purchase a security system with private monitoring because this would reduce crime and save money for the police department.

I realize that's splitting the hair pretty thin, but it's the best I've got.