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In the United States of America the President Obama plans to make birth control free and accessible to all women. This will give equal opportunities to women to control their body the way they want to. Yet controversy has arisen, with this topic, males are speaking up and so is the Catholic Church. This topic has sparked a great debate on women free use of birth control. This topic is important because women 100 years ago had very little rights; in the present women have much more rights. Yet as we move into the future, men and women are still not equal. With the controversy of birth control becoming free through health plans gives women the ability to have control over their bodies.
The three articles were provided on the course link website. Yet I read over the topic provided and chose the topic that spoke to me that most. I found that this was a very relevant topic in today’s society. These articles are also resent not spanning any father then 2012. These articles also bring the perspective of all three parties involved in this issue; women, men, and Catholic Church. The scholarly sources I found on the university of Guelph library website on the journal article databases. The types of discourse that will be used in this paper is foucauldian discourse analysis. Founcualdain states that freedom is an essential for ethics, this topic discusses that women should have the freedom to have access to birth control (Holmes, O'Byrne, & Gastaldo, 2006). This is a power struggle between women free use of birth control over the Catholic Church and males. The medium that will be used in this discourse analysis is Newspapers. This is a political debate, and law that will be passed, the newspapers will best give the options and new cover...

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...r side of the debate. Yet I do not agree at all with the information presented. Religion should be separated from the state, especially in the present time. When religious beliefs hinder on the rights of people they should not be changing minds of the state.
I found that the side of birth control should be free for all had a stronger argument. It showed that the views of non-free birth control was sexist and old fashioned in it ways, the only point that was made in the article by the New York Times was that it went against the Catholic religion. The pro free birth control side backed up the false statement with studies, and showing social changes of minds over the year about sexual intercourse. The second article was also addressed to males explaining the changes of sexual intercourse over the time and think that birth control should not be subsidized is archaic.

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