Letters to the Editor
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Prevention
Depite this argument about the cost of contraception, I find it hard to believe that any woman getting an abortion wouldn't have preferred if she had not gotten pregnant in the first place. And I just don't believe that someone would feel a surgery like this is just a minor thing to do to their body.
Also I must disagree with the words my representative, Ms DeLauro used. I don't believe we should be encouraging women to carry pregnancies to term. That sounds awfully like a guilt thing, and I must say, we have plenty of babies in this world. What we need to do is make contraception a national priority.
Now in an ideal world, all females past puberty would have a surgically implanted birth control device (which would be totally safe) and when they wanted children they would have to go through an approval process to make sure they are able to raise the child well. Would this be a fascistic imposition on people's person freedom? You bet, but it would certainly solve our problem with abortion and give children a much better chance of having capable parents, not to mention keep down the population in a country that uses up such a disproportionate amount of the world's resources.