In this photo taken Aug. 5, 2019, 14-year-old Rosibeth Vargas, who is seven months pregnant, stands in her home where she lives with her parents, 18-year-old sister and nephew, in the Tablitas area of the Caucaguita neighborhood on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela. Vargas said her school allows student mothers to bring their children to class, but that she dropped out after being bullied.
“It’s a sense of impotency, of frustration,” she says. “You see that it’s not enough, that the demand is much higher.” Nicol Ramírez is 15 and already a mother. Her name is on Clemente’s list, but to get an implant she needs to show a negative pregnancy test. The young mom and her older sister frantically call their mother. They need 40,000 bolivars, the equivalent of about $3, in order to do the simple test at a nearby laboratory.
“There was a major advance with the constitution, with getting all these new rights and state obligations,” said Rachel Elfenbein, the author of an upcoming book on social programs created under Chávez for women. “But when it came to implementation, if and where it happened, it was patchy.” The most recent U.N. world population report estimates Venezuela’s teen pregnancy rate is about 85.3 per 1,000 adolescents ages 15-19. That figure would mark a slight decline, though is still over double the global rate. By comparison, Colombia’s rate is 66.7 per 1,000 teens ages 15-19.
“I don’t want to have more kids,” said Yailyn Salas, 20, the mother of a 9-month-old son in the line. “I want to close the shop.”
JohnKiehneForMo Socialist policies hurt people, especially women.
& people say USA is a horrible place to live?
I will never understand how anyone can be so ignorant as to blame everything but the individual for the consequences of their actions.
cearmario Um, can't they just keep their damn legs closed if they want to avoid pregnancy?
Guess exercising abstaining is out of the question... never even a consideration.
Yet no mention of the men's behavior impregnating them at a time like this for their country. This significantly reduces my sympathy for Venezuela. If you are still sexually active amidst such supposed war torn chaos, then things just aren't that bad for you.
Of course you have options... don’t have sex
They got their hierarchy of needs backasswards.
What a joke! I am sure the DemocRats would love to take these people into the country to make them the next victim class for votes
Maybe....ummm...DONT HAVE SEX THEN.
Here's a novel idea don't have sex. Are regular intercourse that can 90% of the time make a baby. It's not that hard to think through. That stupid people do stupid things over and over and over and over and over and over again
So, not fucking isn't an option then
They do have an option, chastity. It's not a dirty word. Funny it's communism which spread the destruction of the family, and of free love. It is communism which via central planning leads to misery and shortages. It is communism which kills both the yet to be born, and the livin
Thank socialism
Not having sex is an option.
Planned Parenthood could help instead of political activities.
Yes, they do, it's called keep your legs closed.
Base case for opening up the back door
'forced'? I'm sorry are they rape victims? Cause I'm not seeing that mentioned in the article. K, maybe spend less time having sex and more time fixing your 💩 country. ok, kiddies?
Here’s a thought...Keep Your Legs Closed & JUST SAY NO! Problem solved!
I thought socialism was awesome?
The world is burning and people are starting to fight back stick with your neighbor Arm n arm we can fight oppression and these evil fucking man from taking over the world and letting it burn if it’s going to burn we are going to burn it down with them and it
Aspirin held between knees prevents pregnancy.
Reasons to keep planned parenthood: ^^
And then they go to Colombia for labor.
So all of a sudden Venezuela is a GOP poster country
Why is this an American problem?
So are they becoming a prostitute and just getting pregnant or is there just nothing to do with their boyfriends or husbands so they’re getting pregnant?
Have the figured out what is causing all these pregnancies?
Georgia? Alabama?
Manufacturing a crisis
“Forced Motherhood” mayNe some should tell them how it happens or is main stream media still good with the stork myth?
I'm sorry, but if they are low IQ enough to be breeding in the middle of a starvation crisis, they deserve zero sympathy. No one forced them to have sex. And you claiming that lack of contraception is the problem is just you saying that these people lack agency & self-control.
What about the option of abstinence?
Alabama and the gop approve
Forced motherhood? You either open or close your legs.
Who is forcing them into bed? I thought that was an option?!? Crisis?
Immaculate conception?
US cutting off access for birth control for the poor too. Women need to revolt.
Democrats are trying to turn the United States into the Socialist Paradise of Venezuela. VoteRedToSaveAmerica
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