There is a world of difference between access to something and being able to control that access - whether that be opening hours, getting an appointment when you need it, education, personal circumstances including abuse, religious views, and a whole host of stuff that makes us individuals, it is never quite so easy to say ‘it’s there, use it’
Oh don’t be ridiculous. Women across the country in demanding and stressful jobs with unsociable hours still manage to get their contraception organised.
Are you seriously saying somebody who manages to engage with the state enough to get multiple benefit claims in are simply going to become incapable when faced with the NHS.
I find these sort of views really bloody ridiculous and just as bad as things like ‘Benefit Street’, portraying benefits claimants as mindless, brainless baby machines who have no choice but to keep pumping out babies because they’re too dumb to work out how not to. Even when you leave hospital after having a baby contraception is discussed so it’s almost impossible to have multiple children with complete unawareness.
In extreme cases there are other agencies like social services and DV services who offer additional support.
But the idea of infantilising all benefit claimants and saying ‘Well we just have to keep supporting all their kids because they’re too dumb and uneducated to stop having them is just downright offensive.
And the argument that a tiny minority of extreme cases justifies across the board benefits to perfectly rational, capable individuals is just ridiculous.