For years, the debate has raged across the country:

Should the federal government be involved in providing birth control?

The sub-arguments are varied and heated.

There have been discussions in the U.S. about providing condoms to school children, an idea which would actually be pretty funny.

If you've been around a fifth-grader lately, then you know that any shipment of prophylactics to the classroom will quickly be transformed into a miniature zoo filled with balloon animals.

Sex education continues to be fodder for the funniest jokes, puns, and double entendres among middle schoolers, that is until they score their first bootleg DVD of Lewis Black.

Abortion continues to be one of the most contentious issues dividing the country.

On one side, the young pro-choice advocates insist that a woman should be allowed the right to choose what they can do with their own bodies.

And to show how responsible they can be with such decisions, those male and female advocates go right out and get tattoos, tramp stamps, body brandings, tongue piercings, tongue splittings, nipple rings, Marilyn Monroe studs in their face, nose rings, cheek piercings, gauged ear lobes, and jewelry piercings in the most intimate of locations to prove their point.

On the other side, the pro-life crowd continues to insist that all life is precious, and they're willing to continue killing abortion clinic doctors until America gets the message.

Then you have "the pill" and pregnancy-preventing injections, and the ongoing battle over whether the federal government should be allowed to provide these forms of birth control for free to those who can't otherwise afford them.

Finally, the United States government has reached a momentous decision on free birth control.

A recent announcement confirms that Uncle Sam is now providing free anti-pregnancy injections to a group that consistently has no money and no way of paying for such contraceptives.

In a decidedly un-politically correct stance; the gub'ment is making no attempt to hide the fact that they are doing it because they are tired of caring for the offspring of reckless females with no self-control, who have sex with a variety of partners without taking any precautions, and who frequently continue to birth more and more young 'uns in spite of the fact that they can't provide enough food for all of them.

And the feds are stepping up with their new birth control program right here in the Silver State, claiming the problem is rampant in Nevada.

It's a controversial idea, but to their credit, the feds are making the injections available to anyone regardless of color, creed, breed, or religion.

In fact, the only requirements are that the recipient must be homeless, and must be a horse.

That's right, a horse.

Our office received a press release from the Bureau of Land Management last week announcing another roundup of wild horses to be held around the Elko area.

As part of the roundup, according to the BLM's e-mail, the female horses will be injected with Porcine Zona Pellucida, or PZP-22, a fertility control vaccine.

It’s like Depo Provera for horsies.

It’s the BLM’s answer to the never-ending roundups they’re forced to conduct every year because recreational procreation seems to be the only habit these equine high plains drifters seem to have mastered.

While it's a decidedly progressive move to provide free contraceptive inoculations, the program is still fraught with antiquated male-dominated thinking, as another part of the project includes a plan to thin the horse herds to a mix of 60% males and 40% females.

It’s almost as if they’re blaming the females for the pregnancy and overpopulation problems, while continuing to heap testosterone-laced accolades on the males with favorable labels like “stud.”

I’m not sure how I feel about the federal government providing free birth control.

Or the idea that they’re willing to do something for animals that they won’t do for humans.

But I’m glad to see that the disco era, the days of “free love,” and federally-assisted sex without consequences have finally reached the horse world.