Roe v. Wade to be overturned?

I waded into someting I didn't intend to. But If the health system is private and the students are bearing the cost of it, then fine. I am not sure if that is the case, and can't tell from what you posted, because you said kind of conflicting things about how it is funded. All I am saying is that if those students' contraception is being subsidized by taxpayers, that would be the line where I personally have a problem. It's not because I am anti-contraception or I am a religious nut. I just don't think that you should be taking money from some people to subsidize other people's birth control.

 

Again, this isn't a debate I am really interested in. What I would say is that an academic department is central to what a university does. I think most people would agree with that characterization. So no, if we are going to have publicly-funded universities (and maybe that is the debate for me), my sensibilities are that the unwashed masses don't get to choose what it can and can't teach. It's a university. Universities teach all kinds of disciplines and they can't operate without academic freedom.

To the extent that contraception for students is being publicly funded, it's just not the same thing to me. It's not central to what a university does. And if there are that many people don't want to have to pay for that (whatever their reasons), it's wrong to force them to.

 

I personally don't think I should be responsible for your ear infection. If my saying that makes you feel any better, I don't think I should be your dependent either.

 

I'm OK with the conversation, I just am looking at it from what I see as a common sense standpoint, not necessarily the all-or-nothing stance you were trying to lock me into. If we are going to have publicly-funded universities, it's kind of obvious to me that you can't have a university without the academic freedom for the departments and curriculums to be independent.

That just isn't the same thing to me as subsidizing the contraception (or the healthcare) of the students (if that is happening anywhere). That kind of subsidization isn't central to what a university does.

 

So again, if that is the case. ... If they are paying the freight for their health care, I personally think there should be no limits on what they are paying for (other than whatever services they can negotiate for the cost they pay). I have no problem with that. Just as I don't want you involved in my private economic decisions. If I can afford $X worth of B, D, J and Y, and I am the one bearing the cost, it's not your place to tell me I can have B and D, but not J and Y. I am paying for it. I am not forcing you to bear the cost.

If contraception is being subsidized by taxpayers on that campus? Again, I don't think others should be forced to pay for someone else's contraception.