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In reply to the discussion: Fran works six days a week in fast food, and yet she's homeless: 'It's economic slavery' [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)You denigrate women as "takers", dancing around the oft repeated Republican fallacy of "Welfare Queens" mooching money from all you hardworking "makers". Can't you think of any other reasons that women have children besides implying we're all lazy deadbeats?
What if she is a widow who once lived a comfortable life, but through no fault of her own she lost everything? If she has no marketable skills, do you blame her for being the sole caregiver to her aging parents, or working low wage jobs to put her spouse through school... after which he dumps her. What if she's one of the millions of us for whom BC measures are not efficacious, or lives in a red state where sex ed is a farce, contraceptives are restricted, the Morning After pill is banned and abortion is an exercise in bureaucratic humiliation? Woman, too, are shackled by paternalistic
religious taboos, is that also her fault?
You don't know her situation. You have NO right to criticise any woman for having children without providing a solution. The only way to do that is through education and paying a living minimum wage that allows workers like her to support themselves with less dependence on public funds.
I'm so done with this self-serving anti-women bullshit!