As economy in Silicon Valley slides, birth control booms

The San Jose Mercury reports:

Nine months after Wall Street tanked, there are signs of an impending baby bust. With the ranks of the uninsured increasing along with unemployment rates, many women are taking steps to avoid having a child.

Gynecologists and family-planning clinics throughout the South Bay have been doing more birth-control consultations since the fall, and women are asking for more reliable, more permanent methods of contraception.

"They want to focus their finances on the one or two kids that they have," said Dr. Savitha Krishnan, an OB-GYN with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Fremont center. "Instead of going with condoms or birth-control pills, they want longer-term solutions like the intrauterine device."

Interesting.