No Funding=No Birth Control?

In these tumultuous times of national government, the Republicans and Democrats are always struggling for power and one of the latest struggles is over government funding of family planning supplies.  Whether it be birth control or abortion funding.  An article in the New York Times entitled "The War On Women"  has the author making the point that without government funding these programs will cease to exist.  While if the free handouts stop, there are other options out there for women if they truly do want the services still made available to them.  I believe that if you have the drive to get something you can.  At the age of 19 I found a full time job that had medical benefits, albeit the job was not fun and the hours sucked, it was worth it for me to have health coverage.  All cutting government funding will do is make the people who don't want to provide for themselves to begin with to no longer have those benefits.  Those that really do want access to these "essential" services will find a way to obtain them.  The points the author makes about the "gag" rule and some of the proposed legislation such as not allowing abortions even when it endangers the life of the mother are quite well founded.  The points of the editorial are well founded and bolstered very well, although some of them I do not agree with in general the piece is very well thought out.  I do not believe the government should cut funding for some of these programs mentioned in the article but it is far from a "war on women" as the author would have you believe.