Giving people access to birth control isn’t just a necessary step toward securing reproductive justice — it’s cost effective, too.
A new study from Child Trends commissioned by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund found that if every woman in the United States had access to the most effective birth control possible, it could save as much as $12 billion a year in health care costs.
The domino effect goes like this:
A lack of access to birth control means more unwanted pregnancies.
More unwanted pregnancies usually lead to “negative pregnancy-related behaviors,” like smoking during pregnancy or delaying prenatal care, researchers wrote.
And these negative behaviors, in turn, create poor health outcomes for both mother and child, which ends up costing billions in public health care dollars. Read more (3/8/17 11:35 AM)
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Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) on Thursday proposed the Safe Transfer Act.
The bill that would require a student’s rape charges to appear on their college transcript for five years following the resolution of their disciplinary hearings.
If a student transfers schools while their case is still pending, the case would still remain on their transcript for a year.
If the legislation succeeds, it would be a huge victory for those fighting to end campus sexual assault, as only two states — Virginia and New York — currently require colleges to indicate a student’s rape charges on their transcript. Read more
