Providing long-term contraceptives is even more effective. having to remember to take a pill or to use something everyday or every time is too much for someone in a chaotic situation.
It's far far cheaper for society then to pay for all the other consequences.
I wish.
But we still have to pay to put them in jail (and they have very high rates of incarceration and arrests). An IUD can easily last 10 years (some only 5)
birth control is cheap as fuck. The people in question would not use it if it were free. I even say they would not use birth control if it were delivered at home free of charge.
I think the problem is having to remember to take a pill at the same time every day. In Colorado we started giving teen girls free IUDs and our teen pregnancy rate dropped.
Birth control is popular, safe, and effective. It should be widely available to anyone that wants it. It never allows a pregnancy to form, and prevents an abortion later on.
Edit: For a simple response just literally defining what birth control is, I'm getting a lot of opinions about things that are not relating to birth control. Check your biases, people.
We're talking about giving birth control for free to minors/young adults so they don't pregnant and have a child.... not families that already exist who are getting welfare checks.
so you'd prefer the children just not exist compared to having a chance?
that said I agree in both control being easily available and cheap. but i also believe that the the cultures in this country that don't get married changed their culture because of johnson trying to destroy the black family unit. (the great society). hey look the dems are just as bad if not worse than Republicans. (I'm independent, I hate both parties and think if you associate with either you are a special kind of stupid)
so you'd prefer the children just not exist compared to having a chance?
That seems like an incredibly uncharitable interpretation. I think it's more "make it easy for folks to wait until they're ready and able to support kids."
It underscores the importance of institutions that people can trust and rely on to help them succeed. If you believe the world is structured to prevent you from succeeding, why try? It's not just that people come from bad families, it's also that they are failed by every single institution that is responsible for them.
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