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[quote=Anonymous][quote]And if a man fathers a child while receiving welfare benefits, are you going to take away his benefits, too? Or is it just about punishing those naughty women who have sex?

Instead of calling for punitive measures that hurt children, how about supporting programs that help people improve their lives and support themselves, like job training programs, or child-care subsidies so that parents can actually go to work? Why not speak up more loudly about getting free birth control to anyone who needs it? Improve sex education? And making sure that women have access to abortion facilities if they need one. [/quote]

It's all about punishing those naughty sluts who tempt men into having licentious sex.

You can't teach anything but abstinence in sex ed (assuming you have it at all) because that might tempt women into having sex. So even if they get birth control, they don't know how to use it properly.

You can't make birth control easily available (or free) because then the naughty sluts will just go off having sex willy nilly at the taxpayers' expense.

You can't make abortion easier, because then the naughty sluts will just have abortions and damn the consequences for the poor, unborn child.

So you threaten to take away their benefits because that'll teach those naughty sluts not to have sex.

Let's not let the fact that the current welfare system doesn't actually reward people for having children, or the fact that benefits have been temporary since the Clinton administration get in the way of a good old fashioned slut shaming, because it's clear that those damn poor women just can't keep their legs shut and keep pushing out more kids, just for the (imaginary) benefits.[/quote]

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