This article is about birth control. The proportion of pregnancies in the United States that are unintended is 49%, and among low-income women, this proportion is even higher-62% among those with incomes below the federal poverty level. This goes right along with the readings this week. In one article a law was passed in 2005 that made it so companies raised their birth control prices. I think this is totally wrong. I mean the percentages are just too high to increase the cost of birth control, also this is kind of going against the whole"supporting women's healthcare rights. I mean because if they are raising the prices (especially with most the percentage of females with a low-income being so high) so the pregnancy rate is obviously going to increase. What do you all think? Do you think this law that was passed is good?
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I think that the prices of birth control already turn some girls off from getting it or encourage them to get it from free clinics. So I think that raising the price is a stupid idea. If the number is so high for women with income below poverty level then why would they raise it so the people that apparently need it can't afford it.
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