Keli Goff: 10 Facts About Contraception Everyone Should Know

1. In countries with the highest fertility rates women have the shortest life expectancies
2. In countries with the highest fertility rates women have the fewest rights
3. Country’s with low contraception usage have the lowest number of women who can read
4. Men who physically abuse their partners fear contraception
5. When contraception availability goes down, abortion rates go up
6. Countries with the highest fertility rates have the highest poverty rates
7. Before contraception* American women were statistically more likely to die in childbirth than they are today
8. Before contraception men greatly outnumbered American women in colleges
9. Before contraception there were no female CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies
10. Before contraception women were virtually invisible in Congress

Source: Loop21
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