I don’t believe that for one second - sounds like BS designed to make us “OK” with free contraception - spit
Fight them over there by paying for their contraception or fight them here when they're breaking into your house at 3 am.
I'm mostly for freedom of conscience, but asking people to pay for free contraception is like drafting citizens to fight during war.
And make no mistake: it is war, and right now the best are losing while the worst multiply like locusts.
What I believe happened is that they were led around and told what to do and did it. That did result in fewer pregnancies but in the real world and real life you don’t have someone leading you by the nose. There have been free birth control methods since they were invented, there are free condoms everywhere and it didn’t change anything but when the Nanny state leads you around by the nose to effect a change.
So for this study to be replicated in the real world each person who is of reproductive age would need their own medical person who made sure they did all the things they were supposed to to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
I don’t know how many people I’ve known who already had the birth control and forgot to use it or used it incorrectly and got pregnant and even those who used it correctly and the birth control failed.
A while back they had that Yaz birth control and they advertised it 24/7, now the law firms are telling people who used it that they can sue 24/7. Sure sounds like it wasn’t too safe and effective to me.
You are right to be skeptical. The study did not prove that “free” birth control lead to fewer abortions. What it proved was that methods of contraceptives that were not vulnerable to human error were more effective in preventing pregnancy and thus there were fewer abortions. I write this because of the study 75% of the women involved chose an IUD or the Patch. Amongst the general population on 5.5% of women using contraceptives choose these methods. The majority use oral contraceptives which have a larger failure rate because of human error. These errors range from forgetting to take a pill to not knowing they may not work if you are on antibiotics. So take away the possibility of human error and you have a lower failure rate. Never mind the health consequences of this or that IUDs can cause abortion.
So I call foul on the study. I also wonder why no one noticed the demographics of their study population. Those demographics show less of a concern for women’s health and more of a concern that there are too many poor Black babies being born. It would not surprise me if what is touted as a great choice today is demanded as compulsory in the future.
Remember scratch the heart of a population control advocate and you find a eugenicist.