In areas like Detroit then, where the teen birth rate has threatened to creep back up after years of decline, such provisions could prove critical to the future of hundreds of thousands of women, especially those with low incomes. U.S. News & World report write this:

Through a project known as Contraceptive CHOICE, nearly 10,000 women between the ages of 14 and 45 in the St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., areas were offered free contraceptives between 2007 and 2011. Abortion rates among that cohort were between two thirds and three quarters less than the national average for those years. For the 500 teens in the study, the birth rate was 1-in-159, compared to the 1-in-29 birth rate nationally--an 80 percent drop. But most teens would likely not receive healthcare benefits from employers although they might be covered under their parents' policies.
"We were essentially simulating Obamacare," says Gina Secura, of Washington University in St. Louis, one of the authors of the report. "It seems like a no-brainer, but it's a good example of what Obamacare could possibly look like if women had access to birth control options in terms of cost and education of different methods."
Surprisingly, Secura says, nearly 75 percent of women chose a long-term option such as an IUD or subdermal implant. Just 9 percent of women in the cohort chose to use an oral birth control method. Nationally, just about 8 percent of women use an IUD, compared to 22 percent who use the pill.
"We found a lot of women didn't know about a lot of birth control methods other than the commonly-used pill," she says. 

The conclusion is obvious: Given the same information and the same access as wealthier women, working-class and poor women tend to make similar choices about family planning.

Despite all the foam-mouthed rantings from the FRC and the Catholic Church and others who've opposed the contraceptive provisions, the issue isn't about the "values"of poor women. It isn't about their aspirations and dreams either. It's about options and education.

And it's about the immorality of those who would deny these to some of the most vulnerable among us.