Federally-funded women’s contraception can safely be said to do one thing: maintain the Liberals’ feminist image.
It won’t realistically improve access for most among the young and the poor, because most provinces already offer targeted coverage for these groups. It won’t help the privately insured. It will provide a nice, but unnecessary, break to everyone else who can front the mild cost. And for those women who don’t want to use any medically prescribed contraception, it provides nothing.
