Free birth control cuts abortion rate dramatically
A dramatic new study with implications for next month’s presidential election finds that offering women free birth control can reduce unplanned pregnancies -- and send the abortion rate spiraling downward. When more than 9,000 women ages 14 to 45 in the St. Louis area were given no-cost contraception for three years, abortion rates dropped from two-thirds to three-quarters lower than the national rate, according to a new report by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis researchers. From 2008 to 2010, annual abortion rates among participants in the Contraceptive Choice Project -- dubbed CHOICE -- ranged from 4.4 abortions per 1,000 women to 7.5 abortions per 1,000. That’s far less than the 19.6 abortions per 1,000 women nationwide reported in 2008, the latest year for which figures are available. Among teen girls ages 15 to 19 who participated in the study, the annual birth rate was 6.3 per 1,000 girls, far below the U.S. rate of 34.3 per 1,000 for girls the same age.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Free birth control cuts abortion rate dramatically
A dramatic new study with implications for next month’s presidential election finds that offering women free birth control can reduce unplanned pregnancies -- and send the abortion rate spiraling downward. When more than 9,000 women ages 14 to 45 in the St. Louis area were given no-cost contraception for three years, abortion rates dropped from two-thirds to three-quarters lower than the national rate, according to a new report by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis researchers. From 2008 to 2010, annual abortion rates among participants in the Contraceptive Choice Project -- dubbed CHOICE -- ranged from 4.4 abortions per 1,000 women to 7.5 abortions per 1,000. That’s far less than the 19.6 abortions per 1,000 women nationwide reported in 2008, the latest year for which figures are available. Among teen girls ages 15 to 19 who participated in the study, the annual birth rate was 6.3 per 1,000 girls, far below the U.S. rate of 34.3 per 1,000 for girls the same age.
The Conservatives will not accept birth control as a solution to abortion.
CONSERVATIVES??? For most of my life, CONSERVATIVES SUPPORTED BIRTH CONTROL.
There isn't a more "Conservative" Conservative than Barry Goldwater, who strongly supported PP.
Republicans who support this issue.
~President George H.W. Bush: “I introduced legislation earlier this year which would provide federal funds for research in family planning devices and increased services to people who need them but cannot afford them. We must help our young people become aware of the fact that families can be planned and that there are benefits economically and socially to be derived from small families.” (Daddy Bush also supported PP.)
~President Richard Nixon: "It is clear that the domestic family planning services supported by the Federal Government should be expanded and better integrated," he wrote. "It is my view that no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition."
~NY Gov. George Pataki: On requiring companies to cover birth control in their health insurance plans: “It is an extremely important bill that will provide very important health benefits to women across New York State”.
~Sen. Olympia Snowe: “And now it comes to contraceptive coverage,” said Snowe. “You know, it really is surprising, because I feel like it’s a retro debate. It took place in the 1950s. It’s sort of ‘Back to the Future,’ isn’t it? And it’s surprising in the 21st century that we would be revisiting this issue.”
Each year, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) presents The Barry Goldwater Award to an outstanding public official who has supported Planned Parenthood and reproductive health issues.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
CONSERVATIVES??? For most of my life, CONSERVATIVES SUPPORTED BIRTH CONTROL.
There isn't a more "Conservative" Conservative than Barry Goldwater, who strongly supported PP.
Republicans who support this issue.
~President George H.W. Bush: “I introduced legislation earlier this year which would provide federal funds for research in family planning devices and increased services to people who need them but cannot afford them. We must help our young people become aware of the fact that families can be planned and that there are benefits economically and socially to be derived from small families.” (Daddy Bush also supported PP.)
~President Richard Nixon: "It is clear that the domestic family planning services supported by the Federal Government should be expanded and better integrated," he wrote. "It is my view that no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition."
~NY Gov. George Pataki: On requiring companies to cover birth control in their health insurance plans: “It is an extremely important bill that will provide very important health benefits to women across New York State”.
~Sen. Olympia Snowe: “And now it comes to contraceptive coverage,” said Snowe. “You know, it really is surprising, because I feel like it’s a retro debate. It took place in the 1950s. It’s sort of ‘Back to the Future,’ isn’t it? And it’s surprising in the 21st century that we would be revisiting this issue.”
Each year, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) presents The Barry Goldwater Award to an outstanding public official who has supported Planned Parenthood and reproductive health issues.
It is my belief that Conservatives are against government offered birth control to children without parental notifications.
It's more of an issue whereby the government raises your child, assigning government moral values, than the actual contraceptives themselves.
I am sure that freely available birth control will, in fact, reduce abortions.
It will also piss people off that don't want their kids having sex at all.
I have no objection to it.
I actually believe that children should be allowed to vote.
Free birth control for all and when your kid comes home with aids/hepatitis/herpes/std then what?
most of those can be passed WITHOUT birthcontrol being involved in it.....
STOPPING PREGNANCY is the business regardless of the chemicals/procedures to accomplish the goal.....
foreplay is where the aids/hepatitis/herpes/std etc.....can be passed....a few of which can be introduced via having dinner at a restaurant or using a public bathroom....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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