A new study from the Guttmacher Institute reports that as the rate of unintended pregnancies continues to decrease among wealthy or educated women, the rate among women who fall below the federal poverty line has climbed.
It doesn't take a genius to understand that when you cut funding for women's health services, including and especially family planning services, of course you're going to see a rise in unplanned pregnancies. Because slashing funding doesn't mean women are going to stop having sex. They just won't have the knowledge or resources to prevent unintended pregnancies.
And not addressing the epidemic of unintended pregnancies is a serious problem for this country. Because family planning is better for women's health, better for their children's health, better for their relationships, and, as it turns out, it's also better for the economy. Unintended pregnancies, meanwhile, have the opposite effect.
So when Republicans want to balance budgets on the backs of poor women by cutting off their access to health care, including family planning, what they're actually doing is harming women, harming their children and harming the economy.
You want to know the best way to reduce unintended pregnancies? Give women, of all economic backgrounds, access to family planning. Because that way, everyone wins.
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No sugar-coating. It's been a baaaaaad week. Atrocities below the fold.
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/Y90x-lro-AQ/-This-week-in-the-War-on-Women
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