The Institute of Medicine has released a report recommending that contraceptives be a covered part of any medical insurance plan.  And, it should come as no surprise that anti-choice advocates are up at arms.  After all, if women don’t have unplanned pregnancies, how will they learn to love motherhood?

Via Lifesitenews:

And, like a surprise gift, while pregnancies may sometimes be unexpected, that does not mean they are unwelcome. For most people, the surprise of a pregnancy becomes the delightful anticipation of a glorious event. And for those young women who need assistance to prepare for the unexpected, pregnancy care centers and organizations of all kinds exist just to help welcome a life into the world.

Planned Parenthood would have you believe that such pregnancies are a terrible event that demands the government spend untold sums of cash (directed to their facilities) in order for it to stop. And, of course, when those remedies fail, Planned Parenthood believes that you and I should then spend again to cure the “epidemic” through abortion.

Equating pregnancy to a disease ravaging the countryside, targeting unsuspecting citizens, and bringing about terrible consequences is to undermine the demands that real disease puts on our government.

In the same NPR story, Andrea Leyva of Tucson, Arizona refers to Alexandria, her unplanned child, as a “blessed surprise.” In countless other situations across the country, women refer to their unintended pregnancy in exactly the same way. That’s hardly a comment people make about any other “epidemic” in need of a cure.

Remember, it’s not a matter of preventing a pregnancy you don’t want, can’t afford, would endanger your health or any other reason you may not want to be a mother.  It’s denying yourself that “surprise gift” you never really realized you wanted.