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Originally Posted by DanaC
Quite aside from the complete violation of their human rights, what about the expense? That's a hell of a lot of contraceptives right there.
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I'd personally guess that generic pill contraceptives for everyone (about $40 a month per person here) would be no more expensive than all of the unplanned deliveries that would be avoided (base cost for a single c-section with no complications is about $10,000.)
As for human rights, of course the theory is that these are girls who don't want to become pregnant in the first place. If a program like this were really going to be put in place, of course there would have to be ways of opting out, just like there are ways of opting out of vaccinations. Nothing would be "enforced," it would simply be the default medical treatment, which could be altered for individual cases.