Be really peeved at how bad inflation has gotten, before filling a wheelbarrow with my rent money.
Cite?
Maybe if you had solid data to back your assertions you would not be ignored as much.
An old joke:
A man falls into a coma, and awakens a century later. When he has recovered, a government man comes to his bedside.
“Your bank accounts remained open, and have been earning you interest while you were asleep. Here is a credit card with the balance on it - $50 million.”
The man is stunned, and thanks his caregivers profusely. They’ve given him the phone number of one of his relatives. He goes out into the street, looks at the flying cars and then decides to call his relative. He goes into a phonebooth (I told you it was an old joke) and picks up the receiver.
The automated voice of the operator comes on the line “Please deposit one million dollars for the first three minutes…”
How would you come to this conclusion by just looking at statistics?
If you had bothered to read the cite you’d see the relationship between affordable birth control and the abortion rate was not an assumption but a conclusion.
I think it is fairly obvious that those having unprotected sex are not thinking about abortions at all. I’d suspect the choice is sex or no sex. Call them sluts if you will, but the abortion decision comes up well after this.
And just as obviously women are not getting free birth control with the intention of reducing the number of abortions either. It just happens that way.
So you want to be Melinda Gates?
Yep. And since when do I have to give a woman “free” birth control in order to not treat her like dirt? Seems to me that the belief that they must be given “free” stuff is treating them like children.
Of course it is. We already know that you want women punished for having sex. They should be allowed a good fuck without needing “carry the burden” for it. That’s kinda the point of birth control.
I feel that way about roads. We are treating everyone like children. If you can’t afford to pay the tolls, don’t drive. It’s as simple as that.
BZZZZT! Bad analogy.
First of all, everyone* who uses the road does pay. Roads are financed in large part by gasoline taxes.
Secondly, we do have toll roads. Are people treated “like dirt” if they can’t afford the toll?
I’d like the OP to come back and tell us why women, the vast majority of whom can readily afford to buy birth control, are treated “like dirt” if they are not given it for free (aka, paid for by everyone).
*Please don’t bring up electric cars. As soon as they become a big part of the driving public, we’ll find a way of taxing them, too.
Free birth control, for that matter any birth control, family planning or women’s health services are the target of the Republican party, to be done away with because it means women are having sex and not paying the price for being slatterns and hussies like Jebus commanded. That’s what I mean by “treated like dirt.” The “free” part is just a bonus issue, and one I am quite willing to pay taxes for, as opposed to global wars and tax breaks for oil companies.
Undoubtedly, some Republicans feel that way. If you are going to state that the majority of Republicans feel that way, you are going to have to prove it.
Besides, your OP is what is known in the business as the fallacy of the excluded middle. Sometimes called a false dichotomy. It’s also poisoning the well, but what’s one more fallacy between friends? 
Hey, all I wanted to do was get a little discussion going and draw out the easy targets like Saraya and OMG. 
Because not doing so is either an attempt to intimidate them into not having sex, or force them to have children. Because doing so is destructive to society and will in the end cost you and everyone else more money due to the resulting unwanted children, so the motive isn’t selfishness; it’s hate. You are willing to take a financial hit in order to hurt women.
No, I think John Mace has a point. While the free birth control is, on balance, a good thing, it’s not what I would do if my primary concern was showing respect for women, by treating them as autonomous adults who could be trusted to be responsible for their own reproductive business.
Well, “free” birth control, if you believe the study, actually pays society in lots of ways. So, consider it an investment.
It isn’t the opposition to it that implies treating women like dirt. It is opposing it because it just lets those poor trash women have more sex without consequences that is treating women like dirt.
“Sucks to be you” is not “showing respect for women”.
I must confess, I’m completely baffled by Saraya’s position. As I’m understanding you, you want teenagers to be dissuaded from sex by the consequences. But you also want them the rest of society to not talk about sex to teenagers. How are they supposed to learn about the consequences which are supposed to dissuade them?
And getting back to the OP, I should also point out that many opponents of abortion consider the action of an IUD to be a form of abortion. Now, I happen to think that this view is fundamentally illogical, but many people disagree. For such folks, the knowledge that access to IUDs decreases other forms of abortion would have very little persuasive power.
I had a serious point I wanted to make here about sex ed and trusting in the intelligence of our children and crazypants repressive thinking, but trying to type it made my blood boil so I’ll just say this instead:
Teen sex is awesome. Your hormones are on full alert and every single thing is sexy and there are so many partner options and chances are that your bodies are looking as good as they ever will and it’s the perfect time to be learning about and experimenting with sex. It just is.
Woo! I feel better now
Sorry. I won’t get in the way of that!
Except that most women can afford birth control. I’m happy to help women who can’t afford it. I’m not happy to help those who can.
No doubt some people think that, as I said earlier. I’m open to proof that most people who oppose “free” birth control think that way. Got any?