I’m not sure, but two things come to mind:
- Personally I have a small sample size, but I know women who have used it as their first-line contraception.
- While not first-line exactly, things like Lily Allen not remembering how many she’s had and making light of it as examples of clearly irresponsible reliance on them. Also she’s rich so it’s not like economics is a major factor in her decisions (whereas I think it’s kinda reasonable for normies to be worried about the cost of groceries). Part of the reason I dislike this kind of thing so much is that it seems obvious that, to her, having unsafe sex is more important than the outcomes. She has every opportunity to have changed and has not changed. So if I’m wrong about her priorities, why hasn’t she changed? She’s also a role model for young women, so I think she’s doing measurable harm when she promotes abortion like she does and makes them sound easy/painless/routine. (It’s unclear if they were all surgical, but my understanding is that pills are painful and surgically is at the very least uncomfortable if not slightly traumatic. At least one sounds surgical as Lily says 500 quid. I asked gemini for UK costs and seems like ~600 is the low end for private under 14 weeks; NHS is free. Cost to NHS is 1000 quid for under 14 weeks, so I guess that the private cost is subsidized some.)
Not sure, but Lily and the host of Miss Me (Miquita Oliver) both agreed that it was romantic for the guy to offer to pay.
So in terms of today and not 1970 or whenever, I don’t know, but it certainly seems like it’s not much of an issue, but maybe that has more to do with anti-natalism than anything else.
Oh and maybe important context: Miss Me is form the BBC so basically state-sponsored (see UK TV licensing for why I added the ‘basically’ qualifier)