Meth Babies: Just One More Reason Equal Access To Reproductive Care Matters

One of the biggest arguments against providing equal and affordable access to women's health care, including birth control, has consistently been that it's just too expensive, and that it's not the responsibility of the government. That if low-income women don't want to have children, they shouldn't have sex. And if they do have sex and get pregnant, there will be adoptive parents waiting with open arms. But those arguments doesn't consider one giant, heartbreaking sector of the population who are being given the short end of the stick in about a million ways: children who are born to addicts of meth*and other drugs, who are difficult to adopt, who are born with a landslide of problems, who, too often, are left in the care of unfit parents, and who are anything but inexpensive. More »Post from: Blisstree