[PapaBear3625]

This wins the prize for the most stupid comment on this thread; implement the Margaret Sanger solution: eugenic genocide.

You don't think Haitian women should be allowed birth control?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Women in conditions of dire poverty very much need to control their procreative power, so as to avoid untimely pregnancy, and achieve healthy pregnancy whenever they want.

But poor women are particularly at risk for harm by contraception:

• It is unreliable unless you use radical measures like sterilization or long-term hormonal implants,

• radical measures either destroy the ability to achieve healthy pregnancy, and/or have serious potential side effects.

• hormonal contraceptives have already contaminated every major river system in the US. Haiti does not have modern water sanitation facilities to remove hormonal effluents from potable water

• Third/Fourth World people would have to devote a big percentage of their national income for contraceptive supplies, and would be totally dependent on the international pharmaceutical industry

• at present poor families don't even have secure access to soap, toothpaste or anti-malarial mosquito measures, let alone contraceptive supplies

• What they need is a method which would be effective, free of charge, not dependent on abortion as a back-up, which has no health counterindications or risks, which does not pollute the environment and which cannot be imposed on them coercively by the state.

Fortunately there is one such method available:modern fertility-awareness methods (NFP).

Doesn't need hormonal injections/implants, will not boost the prevalence of strokes and hormone-sensitive cancers, enhances spousal communication and cooperation.

Doesn't even require calendars and BBT thermometers. The simplest methods have been used by hundreds of thousands of women in Haiti-like conditions.

Fertility choices without contraception. That's the preferred family plkanning method in developing copuntries (LINK)

[stormhill]

You don't think Haitian women should be allowed birth control?

Birth control is an inalienable right for Haitian women. In fact, they can't be denied birth control because birth control is an inherent aspect of humanity. It's really so easy and cheap: don't open up your legs...BANG! Birth control!.
The problem is not access to birth control but rather the unwillingness to avail yourself of it.

If Dominican women lack the healthcare card or copay, a hospital will let them go home to die and NOBODY cares; certainly not you. But if a Haitian shows up at a Dominican hospital ready to pop without so much as identity papers or money, she's given immediate care or you'll have France, Germany and (until recently) Obama to answer to.

I say, give them the incentive to make wise choices by making her take responsibility for her actions. For every 10 women giving birth in Dominican hospitals, nine are Haitians. At the current rate, Haitians replace the native population in Santo Domingo in a decade.