January 5, 2023

Now an attack on contracepteion starting with teenagers

The Hartmann Report - When Clarence Thomas wrote in his Dobbs concurring opinion that the Supreme Court should next overturn the right to birth control in the United States, a lawyer and a judge in Texas were apparently listening. Most Americans have no idea this high-stakes drama — heading toward the Supreme Court but already now law in Texas — is even going on.... A teenage pregnancy could destroy a young woman’s life, and, at that time, over one-in-ten girls became pregnant between 15 and 19 years old. Fully 92 percent of those teenage pregnancies, according to research published in the following decade, were unintended and could have been prevented with access to birth control  So, in 1970, President Nixon signed into law Title X, a federal grant program that included funds for confidential access to birth control for people across the nation regardless of their age.

2 comments:

John said...

Why does the United States suck so bad?

Greg Gerritt said...

The Republicans in Texas are fucking crazy (pun intended)