Colorado offered free birth control — and teen births fell by 40 percent

Great, still doesn't mean it's a right or an employer should be forced to pay for it.

States rights.

Good for them.

Are there really that many women who have zero income in that state? Because even the lowest wage workers can easily get birth control.

Won't any county/parish health unit give women all the free condoms they can carry?

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Colorado offered free birth control — and teen births fell by 40 percent

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If states offered free vasectomies, free tubal ligation etc etc, it would reduce unwanted pregnancy too. Hell. if the state made it a crime punishable by 5 years in prison to get pregnant under 18, it would reduce teen births.

Just because a result is positive doesn't make a policy one we should institute.

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Colorado offered free birth control — and teen births fell by 40 percent

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Yea. That's kinda how it works.

Do we have to go any further in this debate to not implement this nationwide? It is staggering to me that people are against giving birth control to the poor or even teenagers. They're going to be fricking anyway, so why not make sure they're prepared. I know that your religious beliefs say no sex before marriage, but let's look at the birth rates and crime rates, and then look how the correlate.

The birth control is mere pennies compared to the Benjamins we are going to have to be throwing down at these unwanted kids once they are born. Think of the people who do crimes? Is it kids from middle class families with two parents together in their lives that try to make sure their children get an education? 99 times out of 100, no. It's unwanted kids, from broken families, from poor backgrounds, they've been physically/sexually abused, their parents don't focus on their education, and then when they become young adults, they're totally screwed and turn to crime.

I don't like abortion. I wish we could do away with it in many regards, and birth control is the answer. These kids should typically have never been conceived, nevertheless born. And the results in a lower abortion rate I think is proof that giving out birth control works.

Now onto read the thread.