Comments on: Poverty and the Pill https://www.isegoria.net/2010/05/poverty-and-the-pill/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:29:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2010/05/poverty-and-the-pill/comment-page-1/#comment-2745 Isegoria Wed, 26 May 2010 19:16:20 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=6201#comment-2745 It’s clear that any and all military spending — by the US, at least — is considered wasteful by the left, and I have to roll my eyes at snarky comments to that effect, but I wouldn’t pretend that the US is buying much women’s empowerment per dollar spent in Afghanistan, either.

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Making contraception available to all these women worldwide would cost less than $4 billion, Guttmacher said in an important study published last year. That’s about what the United States is spending every two weeks on our military force in Afghanistan.

Fairly simplistic, as I would expect from Kristhof. Does he not understand that a Taliban-dominated Afghanistan just might give women fewer choices about things like contraception?

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