8 June 2007 - 9:36pm
[another country] to subsidize birth control
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the plan will give poor Brazilians "the same right that the wealthy have to plan the number of children they want."
Brazil already hands out free condoms and birth control pills at government-run pharmacies. But many poor people in Latin America's largest country don't go to those pharmacies, so Silva's administration decided to offer the pills at drastically reduced prices at private drug stores, said Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao.
The price for a year's supply of birth control pills under the new program would be $2.40, and anyone — rich or poor — can buy the pills by simply showing a government-issued identification card that almost all Brazilians carry.
Not America. Need you ask?
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It would make sense to add access to effective birth control to human rights. The right to limit the number of children you have if you want to. What do the loony right think anyway will happen in the future if the population quadruples in a generation? The rich will have to eat third world children. Actually if you look in their eyes carefully, I think that's what some of them want...