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Nope.  Actually it would be more like a podiatrist posting about a patient who gets super cheap pedicures at a shady nail salon.  Patient always gets a foot fungus, yet keeps going back there month after month.

This is something in that patient's control.  She can choose to quit going there or she can continue to go there (kinda stupid) and continue to get foot infections.

Getting pregnant is similarly a choice to some extent.  And it it a choice that some ooor women continue to make over and over despite the fact that they cannot support the kids they already have.

They see it as simple as that they will get additional money (via WIC, via SNAP, whatever) with an additional kid.  Not completely thinking it through and thinking about the added emotional and financial expense.

[b]I have no doubt that if we made it more of an immediate financial benefit to not have kids[/b], that would help immensely.[/quote]

How?[/quote]

Have you not been reading the posts?

Currently, the system is set up so that unmarried, lower income moms see that they will get more money/benefits each month if they have another kid.

If we offered a financial reward for NOT having another kid, it makes sense that they would choose that route.  Which would be beneficial for all involved - the overextended mom, and the kids she already has.

It can be totally voluntary, so the PP won't be offended that poor people can't have an unlimited amount of kids.[/quote]

So now we pay for the abortions and even extra money as a perk for having abortions?   Just no

If you are on government assistance you and your teen girls have IUD's. Otherwise no assistance. [/quote]

Abortions are not the only way to avoid having a baby.

The girls know damn well what they are doing and know that there are ways to avoid pregnancy.  IUDs, BCPs, freakin condoms would be fantastic from an sTD point of view.

They choose NOT to do that.

Fine if you don't want the government to pay for abortions, but there are other measures we can put into place.  [/quote]

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