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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-13-07 09:32 AM
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3. Ignorant twits
Let's see.

These people learn nothing about birth control via abstinence only sex ed, other than "condoms are useless and the pill kills babies". So how do they even have knowledge of birth control?

If, by chance, they have knowledge of birth control, many of them are told by their doctor or even their pharmacist that "I'm not going to dispense this as it's against my religion". They may even get a lecture about how it's sinful and baby killing to take oral contraceptives. Just going into a clinic can be a frightening experience with rabid nutbags standing outside screaming at patients trying to go in to get services. Therefore many who might otherwise get birth control are thwarted.


Then there's the fact that many people don't even have insurance to begin with. Birth control isn't free, nor is it cheap. And to expect poor people to just stop having sex simply because they don't have access to birth control (and nobody will help them get it for one reason or another) is asinine.


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