witness23
Veteran Expediter
Contraception by the numbers....
$9
Monthly cost of some generic versions of the birth control pill ($108 a year)
$90
Monthly cost of some brand-name versions of the pill ($1,080 a year)
$55
Monthly cost of vaginal ring or birth-control patch ($660 a year)
$60
Annual cost of using a diaphragm and spermicide, including mandatory doctor's exam
$150
Annual cost of using condoms, twice a week
$220-$460
Annual cost of getting a birth control shot (Depo-Provera)
$600-$1,000
One-time cost of getting an intrauterine device (IUD) implanted (effective for up to 12 years)
$350-$1,000
One-time cost of a vasectomy (male sterilization)
$1,500-$6,000
One-time cost of female sterilization
$0
Up-front cost of abstinence and "fertility awareness" (rhythm method)
5
Percent of U.S. women who use an IUD, which is 99 percent effective
75
Percent of participants in a 10,000-woman St. Louis study that chose IUDs from a range of free contraception options
80
Percent of those IUD users who have stuck with the method after a year
50
Percent of birth control pill users in the same study who've stuck with their choice after a year
6.7 million
Pregnancies in the U.S. each year
3.2 million
Unintended pregnancies in the U.S. each year (49 percent of total)
$12,500
Annual amount average, middle-income couples spend on each child, according to the USDA
$11.1 billion
Public funds spent on the births of unintended babies in 2006 ($6.5 billion federal, $4.6 billion states)
$7 billion
Amount Medicaid and other government programs saved in 2008 by investing $1.9 billion in family planning centers (Guttmacher Institute)
99
Percent of women age 15-44 who've had sex and used contraception at some point
50
Percent of women on the pill who say they take it for non-contraceptive health reasons (often as well as for birth control)
Rush Limbaugh voicing his misogynist opinion to the lowest common denominator of the American people for three days, and losing advertisers because of it:
Priceless !!!!