Report: Women Are Skipping Birth Control Pills To Save Money in This Recession
By Susie Madrak Thursday Sep 24, 2009 5:00amRemember during the stimulus debate, when the Republicans told us birth control funds didn't have a damned thing to do with the economy - and the Democrats, as usual, knuckled under to them?
The Guttmacher Institute has just released a report on the impact of the recession on family planning, and the results are predictable - at least, if you're a normal (i.e. non-wingnut) person. Via Salon:
This summer, researchers surveyed 947 women between the ages of 18 and 34 with household incomes of less than $75,000. They found that women are preoccupied by worry about money, medical costs and childcare. Most of the women hope to get pregnant later on or have decided against having kids because of these tough times -- and that's even more common among women who are less well-off than they were a year ago. A total of 64 percent agreed with the statement, "With the economy the way it is, I can’t afford to have a baby right now."
These findings are all rather intuitive, but what this actually means for pregnancy prevention is less straightforward. A total of 29 percent say they are "more careful" than before about using contraception every time they have sex. There is a flip-side to that, though: Eight percent of women are using birth control less regularly as a means of saving money and, among women in financial decline, that number rises to 12 percent. Things are even sketchier among women on the pill: 18% are popping hormones irregularly to save some cash -- either by missing pills, filling their prescription late, taking at least one month off or picking up fewer packs at a time. That number balloons to 25 percent when it comes to the category of worse-off women.
Overall, 23 percent are having a tougher time than a year ago covering the cost of birth control and -- again, say it with me now -- that number is higher among women whose finances have dwindled. The upshot: Those who are least capable of affording the cost of a child are putting themselves at the greatest risk for an unplanned pregnancy. Women also report avoiding appointments with their gynecologists in the last year -- especially those who have recently lost their health insurance.
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we expanded SCHIP.
They are so d... bad as being in charge , that they now have people asking the question of who is the blame of this economy disaster!!!!
Democrats can lose their way in a open room ,, with nothing in it but themself..
I knew it! This who destroy the economy thing was just a ploy by the right wing to stop people from using birth control. - Way to go nutty right!
I guess the other benfit is that people will not be able to afford Hospice for a dying relitive so they would have to revive them. Good Work! Glad to see that whole Terry Schiavo thing paid off.
Viagra sales are up AND covered by most insurance.
Go figure
Wouldn't it be droll if Viagra slumped?
if a woman has to buy health insurance for herself, it does NOT include pregnancy!
Last I heard, none of the health insurance companies offer pregnancy coverage in individual purchase policies anymore. Gotta love those family values. I guess only those employed by a corporation are allowed to reproduce.
We can only hope those unprotected women are too unbalanced and too tired to want any loving.
This is a must for republican because of their sex behavior. Viagra is a must because they have to be one, two or three UP on their wife.
but on topic, I've not filled my prescription for my birth control since May to save money.
thus excluding those who practice abstinence, which is very economical
regardless of income.
"thus excluding those who . . ."
Are too ugly to get laid, people with terrible BO, etc.
Spouses of republican congressmen.
Because on Planet Wingnuttia, Sex is a sacred thing to be shared only by a Senator and a prostitute, or unnamed fellow you find in a public bathroom...
Now I have to clean off the tea from my computer :)
Let's see: Homosexuality is the new norm in conservaloon republikook world because birth control is a sin.
That about right?
..I stopped getting my anti-depressant prescription filled to save money. "Going without" is the natural order of things for many in these times of economic stress. One day, the 'check' will be delivered (we'll have to pay for this one way or another.).
According to the VA, I'm supposed to be on the stuff too.
But it meant sacrificing my stiffy
And gol darnit there's something you don't sacrifice for your country
Because it make me too depressed
What about vet bills?
asks a predictable republican...
You know, I have a theory why so many republicans advocate abstention. They are secretly in-the-closet homosexuals, so the idea of merely avoiding having sex with women is easy for them.
Avoiding having sex with male prostitutes in a bathroom stall, apparently harder though.
It's their Southern Fried pronunciations
They're actually advocating extensions.
Hopefully the guys can still afford condoms. I don't know but I think they are cheaper than bc pills. From my own experience with bc pills, I hated the things. They made me sick as hell for the few months I took them.
How about IUD's?
Bush at the UN... "And Saddam has IUD's... Let's blow him up"!!!
Well then women are too stupid to understand that raising a child for 20 years is not cheap.
that was helpful!
that means that men who cannot control their urges for sex are also too stupid to understand that's what causes those babies they keep abandoning?! Cretin...
I would have missed the informative article on whether Father-Daughter Consensual sex can ever be anything but rape even when both partners are consenting adults. Gee Salon knows how to keep me informed on topics of vital interest. Thanks Joan Walsh.
can be tougher on dad than the child...when it involves mom and the son.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LM9LMvJ_vw
If you are talking about the daughter of one of the Mamas and Papas, that all seems to have come out on the Oprah show. I refuse to even think about it.
but I think she may have been featured. But I get the impression it all came out when she needed something to sell, and a book about sex with her dead dad came to her formerly drug addled mind.
Oprah is merely "facilitating sales" as we say in the trade.
If soylent green is people
Would this be veal?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxoVV39Xd-U
the very definition of false economy. Unless you are also skipping fucking as well.
and consumption are up as well. (They are in my household of one...) Mixing more booze with less birth control planning will likely result in more pregnancy nationwide.
Copulating for Freedom
Wasn't that in the movie, Can I Keep Doing It Until I Go Blind?
Seriously, how many Americans are making $75,000 a year. People think this is the norm or something? Most people are barely getting by and $24,000 a year is like a dream in this economy.
Go out an poll women who are making $8,000 a year or $12,000 a year.
And every other kind of medication too.
Will set up to the plate and adopt any unwanted kids that result from this. My money says none, though it would be funny to see the reaction to brining it up at a "glass cathedral" and starting a rumor that Mormons are adopting kids to indoctrinate.
Because birth control is so much more expensive than having a baby????
Skipping birth control pills to save money? That makes no sense UNLESS they also skip sex for the same reason, but they won't. Any woman who forgoes BC "to save money" is way too immature to be a parent.
8-18% is the same number that still think George W is the best president EVER. So, 8-18% of stupid Fotzen who think it's a good idea to save a few bucks and still get laid, well you know...retarded. The problem is that their mom wasn't on birth control.
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