Contraception Use in the United States

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This paper relates that female sterilization, especially among less educated and low-income women, and the use of the pill, especially among better educated women, white and higher-income women, have increased. The paper stresses that abortion, considered a form of birth control, remains one of the hottest areas of debate; within a decade of the "Roe vs. Wade" decision legalizing abortion, women still had difficulty obtaining abortion services and many have to travel out of state. The paper urges more research on a birth control pill for men stating that the economic value of the market for a male birth control pill could be greater than the economic value of the market for medications for the heart.

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"The intervention of government in the area of birth control has continued to include free birth control and even mandatory Norplant proposals of individuals who receive welfare. In a number of states, there have been proposals to give women, on welfare, financial bonuses if they accept Norplant implants. There is opposition to this though.
Like mandatory Norplant proposals, offering financial incentives to poor women to use Norplant violates the law in a number of ways. These proposals represent an impermissible government intrusion into intimate decisions that are protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and similar provisions of many state constitutions."

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