This was a specific study of 9,000 women who had access to free birth control and often chose the long lasting options like IUD. In that population there were around 80% fewer teen pregnancies and abortions compared with the national averages. Perhaps if the rest of the population availed themselves of free long term birth control we would have a significant reduction in teen pregnancies and abortions. Long term birth control requires a doctors services and costs to put in place, so is not necessarily cheap or available everywhere.
So, what you’re telling me is that over X amount of time, because studies have start and end times, 1800 women had pregnancies.
A fertility rate of 20% over a year or two (whatever it was) seems really steep to me.
So, I repeat. Free birth control does NOT decrease the likelihood of young women ending up with children or with abortions, both of which with single women, will end of dramatically changing their lives.
So, your daughter has a 20% chance of getting pregnant. Do you tell her to PRACTICE that behavior?
Free (or basically free) contraception has been available for almost half a century.
What has happened in that time is as follows:
- Out-of-wedlock pregnancy rates have skyrocketed.
- Divorce rates have skyrocketed.
- Teen pregnancy has skyrocketed.
- The birthrate has dropped to levels that have severely compromised America's fiscal well-being and national security. (Social Security and Medicare would both be fine if birth rates had remained as they were prior to the 1960s and there would be no need for illegal immigrants.)
- More than 53 MILLION INNOCENT AMERICANS HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN THE WOMB.
The dream that YOU and the left have of free contraception and the eugenics-based "utopia" you believe in have all but destroyed America. With the exception of terrorism, EVERY problem America has today is rooted in the moral collapse of the past several decades and birth control has been at the center of all of it.