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Unwanted pregnancy and financial issues are inseparable. Students had more free time due to coronavirus school closures, and that may have led to an increase in inquiries.

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Takeshi Hasuda, director of Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, which has the nation's only "baby hatch" for parents to drop off infants that they cannot raise themselves. The hospital received a record high of 3,844 inquiries between April and September this year.

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And I wonder if any (or should I say how many?) of those cases could have been prevented by using proper contraception. Of course even then things can go wrong but I know at least one person that at least in the past only used the pill and at one point was afraid that she might be pregnant after she had fun witha co-worker...

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