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0 pointsadrianN10y ago0 comments

If only certain people are encouraged to have children, you automatically have an underclass, no matter how it's implemented. I think that providing free (or more incentivized) birth control would lead to very few cases of unwanted children. IUDs and vasectomies are simple and effective.

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kalleboo10y ago· 2 in thread

> I think that providing free (or more incentivized) birth control would lead to very few cases of unwanted children.

You'd be surprised

adrianNOP10y ago

I don't have data at hand, so I can't contradict you with evidence, but you could also provide some numbers with your claims. I know of Project Prevention [1], which pays drug addicts for long-term birth control. The Wikipedia article doesn't provide data on effectiveness, but I guess they'd stop handing out money if it didn't work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Prevention

nsgi10y ago

Effective enough to be worth the cost != effective enough to eliminate unwanted children

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