The only acceptable way to prevent pregnancies, for American conservatives anyway, is to abstain from sex. There’s a lot of talk about babies’ lives in relation to abortion, but the bigger motivation is punishing women who have sex with an unwanted pregnancy. “She should have thought of that before she opened her legs” really is the bottommost concept for them. A pill that allows free sex without pregnancy? How does that punish anyone for having sex?? This is their attitude.
Telling teenagers, who’s bodies are filling with hormones telling them HAVE SEX NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW to abstain is just never going to work. And we’ve seen that demonstrated over and over. Including with people like Sarah Palin’s own son.
I know right? They’re not having sex BECAUSE contraception is available. Unfortunately these conservatives are great at ignoring the data on this and perpetually jousting with this windmill.
“ThAt WoN’t WoRk In My BaCkYaRd!!!”
– Rest of World
PLEASE dont do generality ,we the rest of the world are not all like USA.
That said, I am guessing in a lot of very religious Africa and Latin America, teens are not getting easy access to contraception.
“And I don’t want it to work on anyone else’s backyard neither!” - American GOP
I’ve read somewhere that most of the decline in birth rates in developed countries comes from the end of teenage pregnancies.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
There’s definitely a political wing that would see this as a negative story and read the headline as “free contraception in Finland leads to reduction in reproductive rate”.
