Economy Makes For Tough Family Planning Choices: Go Natural
Let me start this off by saying I don’t want to have a big ol’ controversy here. But when I open my big fat mouth laptop, sometimes it’s inevitable.
Looks like the crashing economy is “good” for a sector besides pawn shops: the family planning clinics.
Maybe it’s because we’re all jobless; we’re all at home with nothing better to do. Maybe it’s because our unemployed butts have no health insurance. Maybe it’s because we have to make a monthly choice between groceries and contraception. Or a perfect storm of the three.
Whatever it is, for one Planned Parenthood clinic, January was the biggest month for abortions.
We’ve seen some people who said that they didn’t really think that they would ever be making this decision, but recognize that this is a time when they have to think about taking care of the families that they have.
