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FNC senior medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel and Psychotherapist Dr. Robi Ludwig on the increasingly heated debate over the birth-control mandate.
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We're back where doctor Marc Siegel and psychotherapist doctor Robbie blood -- I wanna ask you both.
Is that your impression that the -- inch us secretary was -- valuing.
-- with her comments basically putting it into an economic equation.
Now I and and also we don't know that what you say I was actually tripled.
So I think she was just trying to support her position.
And she didn't do it very well it was a clumsy attempt.
And I don't think it was very powerful at all and it seemed like she was struggling with how to explain her position.
I think -- overall part of what's wrong with obamacare which is attempts to justify an expansion of insurance which is what this is under government mandated government regulation.
Which essentially has a moral clause that would cause when you cover one thing you don't cover something else you say this thing is important in this case contraception.
What isn't important doctors' fees or or some other service that I want to do like an MRI one isn't -- and this is important.
So other oil when it -- and I think condoms are important because condoms we use to prevent sexually transmitted to ML SX that's that's exactly.
That could be -- without insurance and -- That the fact of the matter is that -- this discussion is even being.
Taken to any kind of depth.
In Washington DC.
When we're talking about fifty million abortions since 1965.
Additional discussion that in the public.
Arena there's no discussion of the things in Washington DC and I'm not coming at this same point of being pro life or pro choice.
I'm simply saying that these are this is the result of public policy and individual decisions have been taken.
In this country without basically without comment.
There is their first of all a psychological impact that of which we should be aware here on women who are having abortions.
To the degree that they're -- support through -- degree that they're getting guidance is there a medical implication here.
And why aren't we debating and discussing and having a national dialog over these critical issues -- -- we're talking about fifty million.
Abortions we're talking about fifty million people who were not part of our population that would have been otherwise.
-- also you know an abortion is not an easy decision and and it and they think we're getting into moralizing and getting -- -- what goes on behind closed doors which is uncomfortable and there is.
A separation.
Between government and what goes on privately repeat all.
But having said that I think it's a reflection that morally -- little off any as a country.
And and so when you seat.
All of this going on in our pub you know among citizens there's an acting out going on because we aren't focused on the things we should be focused on what we're not saying that morality -- it.
At one's front door no not at all but I'm saying that will -- more are morally.
On target and thinking and speaking about the right things we tend to live healthier happy airline.
We don't wanna see abortion used as a form of birth control -- your pro choice or pro life -- age pregnancies out of control nobody wants lagging you're going to abortions because they know they can have one right.
That's not proper medically it's not proper psychological -- not it's not good for our team and their psychological aftermath for having an abortion many women you know that.
We're going to continue this discussion and we thank you for raising these issues are and what has been an otherwise.
It's been a subject which has been -- much -- both in Washington.
And in the -- thank you --
