THIS and the amount of people that i know personally who won’t get an IUD because ‘I heard it hurts!’ but who just gave birth to unplanned baby #2 because they can’t remember to take their pill...WHAT?!?!

Abstinence only sex ed has been proven to increase teen pregnancy rates. Add that to a pro-life culture that thrives on miseducation and it’s not hard to believe at all.

And if abortion wasn’t so stigmatized and inaccessible. Sure, babies are nice, but if being pregnant is scary and you don’t have a job you should probably seriously consider an abortion. Then your future kids would be able to grow up with better lives. But the Republicans and Evangelicals benefit from an…

I used to be an OB nurse, as well as a paramedic in a rural county in Oklahoma. Biggest shock of my career was realizing that most of these “unplanned” teen pregnancies WERE actually “planned”.

And this bullshit?? “Walters knows that the most reliable prevention is a tubal ligation, known as getting your tubes tied.…

I can almost understand having a kid. It’s still life-altering and very difficult to do with no father around, but it’s not the same level of insanity as having like six kids.

Every time a new Walters child was listed in the article, I shook my head and wondered what Brynleagh’thpk’s mother thought about “ghetto-sounding” names.

The doctor thought Ben Carson was the smartest person running in 2016, and voted for Trump because he wanted to vote against Hillary.

More babies means more Republican voters in 18 years. Draining the state of resources to pay for public benefits means blaming the democrats for ruining the state with their high taxes and crazy spending, as well as shitty public schools that don’t teach these kids to think for themselves. Matt Bevin seems more…

I know damned well that medicaid covers tubal ligation both during a C-section, or the day after a vaginal birth. 70% of his patients are on medicare. And he’s waxing sarcastic about them getting high and knocked up.

This doctor is a grade A Asshat.

That struck me, too—she can endure being cut open to get the baby out, but the prospect of surgery to tie her tubest scares her? Jesus wept.

I don’t understand the “scared of a tubal ligation” argument. She had a C-Section - THEY WERE ALREADY IN THERE. While your at it doc, snip it up. Jeezus.

I actually do think they are poor because they have so many kids. Like the pastor’s wife said, the jobs that are available could support one person. Having multiple children on top of it renders any ability to break the cycle impossible.

I’m glad you said this. This article made me so mad in several ways. First of all, the doctor refusing to do abortions... My god. Secondly, the fact that most of these women seem like they wouldn’t want one... but most importantly, when you’re looking at the case of the featured woman in this story, at 29 she was well…

It feels so selfish to birth a child because *you* wanted to have some purpose in life. That’s like buying a toy breed dog because you want to feel like a socialite, not because you want a dog and will care well for a dog.

I’m originally from Kentucky, and as much as it pains me to say this (because I so badly want my home state to be better than it is), you are absolutely spot-on.

It’s all fine and well to be pro-life, but when you’re on your seventh child by the time you’re in your mid-20s, and cannot afford to adequately care for even…

Reading that entire section left my face contorted. He simultaneously talks smack to her about “see you next year” and she says she is afraid of surgery to prevent pregnancy just before or just after she gets her belly cut open to take a baby out. WTF?

I suspect the good doctor is a flaming misogynist with a God complex, which is better served by his “heroic” efforts to deliver all these babies than it is to actually serve his patients and his community effectively.

Yeah but these hicks think IUD’s cause abortions.

OR A FUCKING TUBAL DURING HER C-SECTION?

It would be solved if they had access to decent sex ed (that is not just abstinence) and birth control options, but that is rarely the case.