The Washington Post, March 1, 2016: (Blog) n anti-poverty agenda that excludes access to reproductive health care is woefully incomplete
“Thankfully, those dots are compellingly connected in this reportfrom last year, “Two Sides of the Same Coin, Integrating Economic and Reproductive Justice.” If you’re thinking the connection should be obvious, I agree. Having a child is much more than an economic event, but it’s also very much that, invoking significant direct costs and opportunity costs (and benefits too, of course). Thus, the inability to control such costs due to lack of access to reproductive health care is a potentially poverty-inducing problem for low-income women and their families (and 69 percent of those who seek abortions are low-income). Conversely, increasing use of the birth control pill, for example, has been found to significantly reduce the gender pay gap.”