Ok, but I have to wonder about a natural zero - my 14 year old skinny, 5'5'' daughter at around 110 pds is a size 4 - so what the hell is a zero?

Under 5 ft, under 100pds for a full grown woman?

Sorry that is such a small percentage of grown women, it doesn't even get into double digits as a percentage of all women - lets say 2% and thats generous, so why are they almost 100% of the mannequins? yes there will be natural zeros , but they have to be so rare, why are they representative of how clothes are presented to the masses?

""However, refusing to cover the cost of contraception is an underwriting decision purely and simply. Insurers know that most women (most sensible women and men, really) will buy and use birth control whether they have insurance or not,""

By that same reason, insurance knows that people will buy viagia even if they don't cover it, so why should they? It is not life threatening or nearly as dangerous as not taking birth control can be, no one will die, or have their body chemistry, and shape permanently changed if they don't get viagia? So why should the insurance company cover this drug or any other prescription drug thats say under 100$, since they know people will buy them any way?

Hey how much is a month of insulin? I mean you know they are going to buy it even if insurance doesn't cover it, because the results of not taking it are a serious health problem, hey kind of like being pregnant(which can make you diabetic! Bet the insurance companies send you an award, for that logic.

Get yourself to a doctor - tell them you took plan B, and it didn't work, and ask bluntly no wiggle room, did it hurt the fetus??? Will it increase odds of complications, or defects in the fetus, is it still safe to go ahead with the pregnancy?

Now, if the doctor tells you no harm done, or the odds are low enough, then you can come back to the questions.

Until you've done that , the sit-com, drama queen life questions are pointless, stick to the practical. You are a grown up now, and need to concentrate on the practical, not how can I explore my artistic self. And if at 30 your not ready, baby - you will never be ready, you are play acting, get a doll. And honestly, how can you consider yourself an adult (mature enough to breed) if you need someone else's (a strangers) comments on this? What does your husband think? Get real. It sounds like you don't know what you want, and want someone else to make that decision for you - and if you and your husband can't make that decision by yourself - you are not ready for kids, and the thousands of important decisions that come with them. Only grownups should have kids.

"erectile dysfunction" never killed anyone.

Being pregnant can. Erectile dysfunction while terrible for the one suffering, the level of their suffering doesn't come up to the possibly life threatening complications a pregnant woman goes through, much less the permanent changes that even the most average and safe pregnancy it puts a woman through.

All comments on viagra not equaling birthcontrol. Viagra increases the need for women to need birthcontrol. And lets get real, what percentage of men taking viagra really need it vs using it as a recreational drug? With all the illnesses out there that the drug industry went after - did they go after life threatening or any other criteria other than they knew the off label uses of viagra would make them rich? Not that it would actually help people facing a painful or terrible illness. Why because men's sexual issues are safe (ie religious right doesn't protest) and socialable exceptable. But anything about womens sexuality has the opposite affect.

Also having worked for Blue Cross in Oregon, their decisions to not cover birth control, abortions and other womens problems was not based on science, or profits, but on the morality of the people in charge. Because if a customer gets pregnant it cost them a lot more, if only because now they have an extra person on the rolls. Money was not the bases of the decisions. It is the insurance companies imposing their views on their clients, who don't get to choose their provider - since their employers choose for them. They only cover these items when a large employer (ie major policy holder insist on them after a big fight at the negation table, bet they never argued over the coverage of viagra!)

This is why it is unfair. Not because viagra is equal to birth control, but because a bunch of guys decided viagra was ok to cover, but not birth control based on their personal religious views, not economics, not statistics , not what was best for the insurance companies.

Also alot of pills cost up to 70$ a month (if you are a woman who can't just take any of the pills, but need to care about the different dosages) And what a class based comment, so all poor women smoke? Bullshit, 70$ , 40 or 30 dollars a month is a budget killer for a lot of people, including middle class appearing folks, college kids ....and hey non-smokers.

Just because it doesn't seem like a lot of money to you, it doesn't make you a superior person.