Okay. It seems absurd to me that you’d have literally “no idea” – seriously, no idea one way or the other? It’s 50/50 which group might have more pregnancies? I have trouble understanding how you feel that way, but okay. Note that I’m not saying “not utilizing” – I’m speaking of whether it’s more or less likely that women and couples will utilize them.
I think it’s a pretty clear logical supposition – if two parties have some level of input into a decision, and one party’s input is held constant, then the other party’s input will have some level of sway towards the final decision. So if we look at very large groups with in which the second party usually comes from two very different pools, there will be trends one way or the other in terms of the likelihood of the final decision, regardless of the “culture” of the first party (i.e. the women). But if you disagree, okay, we can stop there.
But it’s not “must”. In a large group of millions, many of these decisions will be made with input from both parties. Not all of them, but many of them. Enough to mean that 2.5% of unmarried black women might be more likely to get pregnant in a given year than unmarried white women, perhaps.
Perhaps. But in your hypothetical, they were identical twins. So there is no racial disparity that you can count on when comparing pregnancy rates. So, it seems like you are just making up the fact that one group of twins would get pregnent at a higher rate. I, on the other hand, have no idea how it would turn out, question why you would say “it’s absurd” that I couldn’t make up numbers.
Have there been any studies that have asked unmarried women who got pregnant WHY they didn’t use birth control?
1000 sets of twins. Some of those sets of twins might put their foot down no matter their partner’s input. Other sets of twins might take their partner’s input. It seems logical to me that those who take their input will be more likely to be swayed towards one decision or the other by the input of their partner.
Sure, but you have no way of knowing the numbers without making them up.
I say that all the women have received birth control information, and only 2 of them from group B decide to have sex with no contraception because they want to get pregnant for whatever reason. The rest get norplant because they are smart.
Okay. I’ll say that in a group of 1000 women, I think the chances are high that some of them will be the type who makes these decisions with some input from their partner. But we’ve probably gone as far on this as we ought to.
Some way of Planning when to engage in Parenthood, you say?
Why, surely if such things were possible, they’d be freely available to anyone who needed or wanted them, not, say, blocked from those who couldn’t otherwise afford them…
“available” is a polite fiction for the people most at risk, and that’s how the governmentlikes it nowadays The president’s budget proposes to cut Medicaid by at least $600 billion — and that’s on top of AHCA Medicaid cuts of over $800 billion. The AHCA also ends Medicaid expansion. Across the next decade, these changes would kick approximately 14 million people off the program, including many women of color.