Newsflash: Women Really Benefit From ContraceptionS

A new study confirms the obvious: women use contraception to better achieve their life goals, not because they're lazy, godless sluts.

Few studies had ever actually asked women why they use contraception, so the consistently fantastic Guttmacher Institute decided to do just that by surveying 2,094 women on how they've benefited from family planning services. Here's what they found:





No woman surveyed said she used the pill as part of a cohesive satanic plot to kill as many "unborn angels" as possible. Weird!

"Notably, the reasons women give for using contraception are similar to the reasons they give for seeking an abortion," said Lawrence B. Finer, who led a previous Guttmacher study on the topic. "This means we should see access to abortion in the broader context of women's lives and their efforts to avoid unplanned childbearing, in light of its potential consequences for them and their families."

Hear that, politicians?

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[Guttmacher Institute]