You're not going to make them more responsible by withholding birth control, and you're not going to make them less apathetic by providing it to them for free. 

If the data shows an implantable device does prevent pregnancy, because they don't have to think to use it at the moment, where is the data showing these people end up less poor or becoming better citizens in the end?  If they don't have the motivation, intelligence or impulse control to take a pill every day or use a condom, are they going to suddenly be able to get through college or run a successful business just because you prevented them from having a baby?

No, these people need a whole lot more than just free birth control. They need a whole life intervention, as explained in this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture/dp/0062300547

Focused personal mentoring from a caring individual, exposure and immersion in a culture other than the impoverished one that bred them. That's what brings people out of poverty, not government Band-Aides.

There is just a great big giant disconnect between the biological reality of our species and our economic and social systems.  We have evolved to reach sexual maturity many many years before we are ready in today's modern world to raise and support children, at least in the first world. Age 14 for girls and 16 for males, is when mother nature insists you have sex, a drive only just behind breathing and finding food in urgency. The legal "age of consent" (18 or 21, varies by state?) is an artificial construct, as is any religious prohibitions against sex. Hence the persistent failure throughout history of attempts to restrain sex on legal or moral grounds. We are genetically programmed to begin sexual liaisons at age 14/16 because in the environment in which we evolved, this was ideal for the survival of the species.

We find ourselves now, after the rise of civilization, the success of agriculture in making possible great cities, countries and empires, with redistribution of labor and resources, then the industrial revolution and now advanced technology and cultural constraints against not only sex before 21, but WORK before 21, in a world where teens can no longer earn enough to support a family. And then we've even codified this by redefining the term "child" to mean not someone prepubescent, but someone under a quite arbitrary age many years older.  (21 has nothing to do with physical maturity; it has everything to do with getting through primary education and a few years at a trade school or college.) "Child" labor laws, alcoholic beverage laws, minimum wage laws, and this cultural myth everyone must go to college, make it impossible for teens to have a child and support it themselves, thereby making this whole thing such a big "problem". It results in the creation of a time of limbo where a person is physically mature, has the working equipment and hormonal drives for procreation, but is expected to repress all of that for five, six or seven years of what nature intended as their most prime time of performance and enjoyment.  Indeed, if one partner happens to be a few years older than the other, it becomes pedophilia (despite the fact that males - of any age - attracted to physically mature 14 year old girls are very different from a true pedophile, one who preys on unwilling physically immature small children.)

I'm not saying we are wrong to attempt to constrain with morality or law, sex in the teenager.  We are not wrong to have developed civilization, education. and all the other factors above-mentioned that place us in this predicament. It is what it is and so we attempt to deal with the problem of parents too under-prepared to raise in today's world a baby they are physically capable of making. It would be nuts to go backwards to cave man days just to calibrate ourselves so that sexual maturity now equals income earning maturity.  Perhaps in several hundred thousand years, if we don't go extinct, mother nature will adjust our sexual maturity upward to approach our intellectual and emotional maturity. In fact this is probably already underway, as our species' ancestors as well as the great apes attain sexual maturity at younger years than do we.  As mankind's brain size grows, everything else tends to eventually adjust, such as the reduction in our teeth and jaw size.

As for whether we should use tax dollars to focus on more "convenient" forms of birth control such as the IUD, my position is the same as many other topics along those lines such as treatment programs for drug addicts.  I am basically against using tax dollars for anything at all except defense of the nation and maintaining open commerce pathways.  But social programs already being in place, if our choice is pay for an IUD or pay for an unwanted kid who will be on welfare popping out many more unwanted kids for generations to come, then yes, I would be for this program.

There would have to be a case to come back up to challenge it at the SCOTUS level again. It would still take a few years for it to make its way back up there again and even then, depending on the actual suit brought, it's not guaranteed.

When Justice Gorsuch was asked during his confirmation hearings if he'd overturn that case (among others) he said that it's precedent and that the Court must look to precedent when making decisions. It was a non-answer but he does hold precedent in some regard, as he should.

To the extent precedent is proper law, he is correct. And he is correct not to say what he would decide on an individual case beforehand. That would make him an agenda driven activist and this is something we hope he is NOT as opposed to Hillary specifically promising to put agenda driven activists on the SC.  At least I hope he is not; I am not an agenda driven conservative; I am one who merely wants the SC to do what it was tasked with when the country was born.  My personal positions on issues should not be the point, and neither should they for anyone, but we know that's usually not the case. The percent of people in this country who actually understand what the SC's job is, is pathetically few.

Yeah he really stepped in it there. In fact, nobody should point fingers when it comes to chemical warfare, as all sides used it (including us) during WWI and all (including Hitler) possessed them during WWII.  However, while stockpiled, they were not used on either side during WWII (in battle, not talking about death camps) because all sides also had developed effective protection against them which rendered them a waste of time or even counter-productive to a battle.

So technically he is correct, Hitler didn't use them in battle.  But the subject of the Holocaust and the use of gas to kill millions of innocent civilians is way too sensitive, and the technical correctness of his statement will be ignored by the emotional masses; something anyone should have foreseen before saying such a thing.

The truth here is that it isn't the type of method used to kill that should be the point. The focus of our outrage should be the fact that non-combatant civilians including women and children are killed. If every single person in Hitlers death camps had been shot with bullets instead of gassed, the atrocity would have been no less. But then no one would have blinked at Spicer's comment. One more case of the media and the masses just misdirecting themselves to the wrong detail.

My biggest problem with it would be that I don't think the Federal Government should have any say in the matter, either for or against.  It should be a State issue.

I agree with this. But I also agree with Anthony that it is a very polarizing issue.  To reverse it now would possibly create a situation where the left would regain the upper hand politically, thereby putting us back on the path to economic destruction, weaken our standing in the world, open us up to greater terrorist risk, worse health care, and all the other woes the Democrats bring upon us.  You have to calculate the downstream consequences of all of that in terms of death and human suffering when you balance it against the lives lost by abortion.

Strictly speaking RvW is unconstitutional, but right now it is not the hill we want to die on. Right now the very survival of the U.S. in a physical sense is at risk and we need to get a handle on that first.

You assume they care if their economy is wrecked. 

Also a very good point.  For example in WWI we see the heads of several nations not giving a flying fig about their country, but tumbling headlong into catastrophe driven by ego, personal issues, just being childish and stupid, etc. 

Anything could happen.  I like to think China would avoid war as long as things are relatively stable and comfortable there, but no question they want to build the military to equal and exceed ours, for defense if not offense.  It hardly matters if anyone there has a long term plan of global aggression. Whether they'll actually use it might depend on decaying conditions and a desire to expand for resources, or the kind of lunacy mentioned in my first paragraph.

Resource scarcity could be a big problem in the next century and China has a lot of mouths to feed as do we all.

By the way, can anyone say what the actual consequences of this action were, other than blowing millions of dollars worth of technology (ours) to bits?  Yeah, an airbase got blown up, but Assad has lots of those.  According to the news Syrian jets were flying out of the one hit hours later.  Do we actually have aims in Syria?  Are we after regime change?  How are we going to get it?  Are we sending in troops?

I think the actual consequences were to send a message, nothing more.  It certainly wasn't designed to destroy Syria's warmaking capability. If we wanted to do that, we sure could.  Whether we are after regime change or plan to send in ground troops remains to be seen. Trump has clearly said he's not going to telegraph our plans. In the meantime maybe the message is strong enough that Assad will change his behavior. The message is also for the rest of the world. The U.S. now has a President who will not stand by while rogue nations and petty dictators proceed with human rights violations after being told to stop it.