Should women be entitled to birth control?

First of all, can you find somewhere in the United States that a woman is not permitted to obtain birth control?

Neither can I. It's a legally-prescribed medical solution to a variety of medical problems, and the prevention of unwanted pregnancy.

So the issue of provision is, well: it's not an issue. It's a diversion from the real issue, which is one of entitlement. More specifically, taxpayer-funded entitlement. Provision is there. The issue is this: who will pay for the contraceptives?

Pro-entitlement citizens want the government to either:

• require private healthcare-related corporations to provide birth control (contraceptives) without charging the patient, or
• provide taxpayer-funded supplemental healthcare benefits that pay in whole or in part for contraceptives, or
• a combination of the two options above.

So here's my second point: why? What gives any patient anywhere the right to the product, service, time, energy, or money of another person?

Put another way, what gives any patient the right to lay claim to money I've earned so that they can have a medical solution to some problem they've encountered? Why are they allowed to reach into my pocket to pay for their needs? What about my needs? 

Here is the statistic I heard this morning: While 51% of the U.S. population does not pay any income tax of any kind (in other words, whatever they might pay is refunded to them), 40% of the population (nearly 80% of the first statistic) receives supplemental assistance from the government.

Sorry to keep coming back to this, but pretty much every government funding problem can be solved by paying only for those solutions  required to protect me from harm at the hands of another.

And from my perspective, abortion funding is so antithetical to the point in the previous paragraph that it should be obvious that it is not the woman's "right" to abortion that is at issue; it is instead the right of the unborn fetus, the viable human who is still developing, who needs protection from harm at the hands of another. The government funding currently earmarked to pay for that should instead be directed to protection of unborn children whose lives are endangered by their parents' irresponsibility.