2. * More than 3 million unintended pregnancies
occur every year in the United States.
* The 3 million American Women who use
contraceptives account for almost half of these
pregnancies (47percent), while the 39 million
American Women who use birth control
account for 53 percent.
* The majority of unintended pregnancies among
women who use birth control result from
inconsistent or incorrect use.
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3. “About half of the pregnancies in women over
forty years old are unintended, a higher rate than
for all other age groups except teenagers/young
women; for these pregnancies, women over forty
have the highest rate of abortion of any age
group”
4. *
Insurance companies consider pregnancy a pre-existing condition.
This means that if you do not already have insurance, they will not
cover you. And if you do have insurance, it may not cover
pregnancy or complications.
Delivery costs about 6,000 and
complications another 2,000 a day. If
you have no or low incomes, you can
receive insurance from the
government that cover all of the
pregnancy.
5. *
• A child will not automatically improve your relationship with
your partner
• Abortion is not more painful than labor
• Abortion is not more expensive than having a child
• Using drugs in the beginning of the pregnancy does hurt the
fetus
• Adoption does not necessarily cut you off completely from your
child
• Men can nurture and love a child the way women can
• There is financial help for all of the options.
6. *
“Poverty is the reality for many teen mothers and our children. Within five
years after the birth of a first child, almost half of teen mothers and more than
three quarters of unmarried teen mothers use welfare. Teen women
experiencing domestic violence (about one third of all teens in a relationship)
are battered more after marriage.”
• Family, your partner, a counselor, your doctor, insurance
companies, local health center or local family planning clinic are all
people to turn too in support of a decision.
7. *
There has been a lot of stigma about abortion and if it
should be legal or not. How do you guys feel about this?
Should this remain legal in the U.S.? Why or why not?
