Sandra Fluke Named As A Finalist In Time Magazines Person Of The Year

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Study: Free birth control leads to way fewer abortions - CBS News

Free birth control led to dramatically lower rates of abortions and teen births, a large study concluded Thursday. The findings were eagerly anticipated and come as a bitterly contested Obama administration policy is poised to offer similar coverage. The project tracked more than 9,000 women in St. Louis, many of them poor or uninsured. They were given their choice of a range of contraceptive methods at no cost - from birth control pills to goof-proof options like the IUD or a matchstick-sized implant.
When price wasn't an issue, women flocked to the most effective contraceptives - the implanted options, which typically cost hundreds of dollars up-front to insert. These women experienced far fewer unintended pregnancies as a result, reported Dr. Jeffrey Peipert of Washington University in St. Louis in a study published Thursday.
The effect on teen pregnancy was striking: There were 6.3 births per 1,000 teenagers in the study. Compare that to a national rate of 34 births per 1,000 teens in 2010.
There also were substantially lower rates of abortion, when compared with women in the metro area and nationally: 4.4 to 7.5 abortions per 1,000 women in the study, compared with 13.4 to 17 abortions per 1,000 women overall in the St. Louis region, Peipert calculated. That's lower than the national rate, too, which is almost 20 abortions per 1,000 women.
In fact, if the program were expanded, one abortion could be prevented for every 79 to 137 women given a free contraceptive choice, Peipert's team reported in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.

The findings of the study, which ran from 2008 to 2010, come as millions of U.S. women are beginning to get access to contraception without co-pays under President Obama's health care law. Women's health specialists said the research foreshadows that policy's potential impact.
"As a society, we want to reduce unintended pregnancies and abortion rates. This study has demonstrated that having access to no-cost contraception helps us get to that goal," said Alina Salganicoff, director of women's health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
"It's just an amazing improvement," Dr. James T. Breeden, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said of the results. "I would think if you were against abortions, you would be 100 percent for contraception access."

Do you have a link to the original study? How were the women chosen? If the study consisted of those who signed up to receive birth control then of course women who took initiative to get bc had lower pregnancy rates than the general population. I'm not clear on how the women in this study are suppose to parallel women in the general population who are not taking part in a study.

 

[LAM]

Teenage Births in Rich Nations
http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/repcard3e.pdf

 

[FUZO]

Sandra fluke is a complete dumbass

 

[LAM]

Also, Mexico is an OECD country. They don't report their number of teen pregnancies, but are you trying to tell me that Mexico has fewer teen pregnancies? If so, check out the chart above and you'll see that Mexicans have a pregnancies rate 3 times that of whites.

latino's in the US don't use contraception very much, many of them take the bible "literally" and they are also low income. you won't find many in the underclass with any working knowledge of economics and the costs of raising children now and down the road. and Mexico is a dump except for the vacation locations, low wages don't make for a good economy or educated population anywhere at anytime in world history.

 

[DOMS]

latino's in the US don't use contraception very much, many of them take the bible "literally" and they are also low income. you won't find many in the underclass with any working knowledge of economics and the costs of raising children now and down the road. and Mexico is a dump except for the vacation locations, low wages don't make for a good economy or educated population anywhere at anytime in world history.

All true, but none of which negates my point.

 

[Standard Donkey]

All true, but none of which negates my point.

irrelevant


besides, according to this chart, it's the western nations that are responsible for mexico's economic situation

 

[LAM]

All true, but none of which negates my point.

so then we should celebrate that the US is not at the rock bottom of the OECD for preventing unwanted teen pregnancies only near the bottom? the fact that the US is ranked near Mexico, Chile or Turkey at anything isn't a good sign of times to come.

 

[DOMS]

so then we should celebrate that the US is not at the rock bottom of the OECD for preventing unwanted teen pregnancies only near the bottom? the fact that the US is ranked near Mexico, Chile or Turkey at anything isn't a good sign of times to come.

No, we should recognize one of the main reasons that we are and fix it. That's to say, eject all the illegals and lock down the borders. That's why you figure out where and why some is broken, right? So that you can fix it? It would be a tremendous first step.

 

[Standard Donkey]

No, we should recognize one of the main reasons that we are and fix it. That's to say, eject all the illegals and lock down the borders. That's why you figure out where and why some is broken, right? So that you can fix it? It would be a tremendous first step.

then how will iberals ever get elected?????

 

[exphys88]

then how will iberals ever get elected?????

By liberals, blacks, asians, women, young voters and republican voters will continue to die off. Basically every voter accept old rich white men.

 

[KelJu]

Fucking stupid mother fuckers. The same people who bitch about spending money to see to the needs of low income children bitch about the solution to the problem that they are bitching about.

Here are some basic facts for you god damn idiots.
Free birth control means fewer abortions
Free birth control means fewer welfare children.
Free birth control means a massive amount of money saved on healthcare expenses for teen moms.

Three problems that conservatives bitch about are addressed. It is a small investment with a massive return. You could probably pay for 10 women's birth control for life for the cost it takes to support one low income single mother. Insurance companies know this. They know the numbers. Fuck, they know them well enough that most insurance providers will gladly pay for you to get your dick snipped and your tubes tied because it saves them money in the long run.

A lot of insurance providers paid for birth control prior to all of this horseshit in the first place, so this all boils down to shitty people and their shitty political beliefs. All rational thinking, facts, and actual numbers was ignored.

 

[DOMS]

then how will iberals ever get elected?????

They pandering to whomever they can. They're even willing to sell out America, by legalizing illegals, if it means they can get more votes.

 

[exphys88]

They pandering to whomever they can. They're even willing to sell out America, by legalizing illegals, if it means they can get more votes.

It seems that conservatives are now talking about legalizing illegals since they lost so bad in the elections.

 

[exphys88]

Fucking stupid mother fuckers. The same people who bitch about spending money to see to the needs of low income children bitch about the solution to the problem that they are bitching about.

Here are some basic facts for you god damn idiots.
Free birth control means fewer abortions
Free birth control means fewer welfare children.
Free birth control means a massive amount of money saved on healthcare expenses for teen moms.

Three problems that conservatives bitch about are addressed. It is a small investment with a massive return. You could probably pay for 10 women's birth control for life for the cost it takes to support one low income single mother. Insurance companies know this. They know the numbers. Fuck, they know them well enough that most insurance providers will gladly pay for you to get your dick snipped and your tubes tied because it saves them money in the long run.

A lot of insurance providers paid for birth control prior to all of this horseshit in the first place, so this all boils down to shitty people and their shitty political beliefs. All rational thinking, facts, and actual numbers was ignored.

Fundamentalists=stupidity

 

[DOMS]

It seems that conservatives are now talking about legalizing illegals since they lost so bad in the elections.

Yep, pretty shitty. But when your opponent stoops to such low levels, you have to go there too. It's why I hate both groups. A few more votes in exchange for bringing the USA down to the shitty third-world level of Mexico. All the politicians that back such a measure should end their lives on a rope like all other traitors.