Hillary and the Pill
Hillary Clinton has identified an alleged Republican "war" on contraception -- or else, she's trying to secure support on the feminist left, which may have softened in light of her "middle ground" rhetoric on abortion.
In any case, it's a silly, specious charge. What's her evidence? According to the piece:
The senator cited statistics that low-income women are having four times as many unwanted pregnancies as higher income women.
Even assuming all these women couldn't afford the many, varied, relatively inexpensive and easily accessible forms of birth control on the shelves of most major drug stores, the statistics still prove nothing. The higher pregnancy rate among low-income women could be a result of their (1) declining to use birth control or (2) using it improperly.
In any case, even if -- in some bizarre parallel universe -- the Republicans were trying to limit access to birth control, you'd have to credit them with favoring principle over politics. Because cutting off poor women's contraception may lead to more abortions, but it also results in more live births, which would quite effectively diminish the Roe effect.
In any case, it's a silly, specious charge. What's her evidence? According to the piece:
The senator cited statistics that low-income women are having four times as many unwanted pregnancies as higher income women.
Even assuming all these women couldn't afford the many, varied, relatively inexpensive and easily accessible forms of birth control on the shelves of most major drug stores, the statistics still prove nothing. The higher pregnancy rate among low-income women could be a result of their (1) declining to use birth control or (2) using it improperly.
In any case, even if -- in some bizarre parallel universe -- the Republicans were trying to limit access to birth control, you'd have to credit them with favoring principle over politics. Because cutting off poor women's contraception may lead to more abortions, but it also results in more live births, which would quite effectively diminish the Roe effect.
posted by LadybugUSA at 4:23 PM
1 Comments:
I point to the article I wrote yesterday stating if evangelicals, conservatives and anti-right to choose advocates are so certain in their beliefs then they should advocate a national ID card which has an information chip embedded in it like a phone card. The data in that chip would in clude code that says they waive their right to Roe protections. Thus the debate would be ended since the right feels the vast majority of women feel abortion is immoral in all cases.
On contraception, well the census statistics since 1950 will clearly show that women in the workforce and the advent of "the pill" have decresed white live births while minority birth rates have gone up at a steady rate. Within the white race births among the wealthy have sharply declined. What ruling class wouldn't want to curb their demise?
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