Your Money: Popular Freakonomics - Attacks on Women’s Contraception Harms Our Economic Health
Your Money: Popular Freakonomics - Attacks on Women’s Contraception Harms Our Economic Health
Popular Economics Weekly
Republicans, whether knowingly or unknowingly, not only court political disaster when they attack women’s contraception, but risk economic disaster as well, since without readily available contraception—from the pill onward—women would not have been able to contribute to economic growth as they have today and boost family incomes, when males’ head of households incomes began a steady decline in the 1970s.
This is a well-known fact, yet Republicans led by the religious extremists in their party, don’t want to realize that without women’s work outside of the family—which was severely restricted before birth control and family planning became possible in the 1970s—our economy would be in much more dire straits than it is today.