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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey 17:41, don't forget opposing raising the minimum wage, maternal/paternal leave policies, and paid sick leave.

Without those, plus all the other things 17:41 mentioned, the republicans are just supporting pro-life policies because they make the wealthy wealthier, and make everyone else poorer. [/quote]

When does the bucket get empty? Are ALL of those necessary? This started with affordable daycare (which wad discussed and promoted at the Repiblican conventions) and has expanded into the Democrat wish list. Yes, Republicans and democrats have different ideas of how to support families and generate wealth. Different doesn't mean against. You've had eight years of a Democratic president, many Democratic  mayors - how are all the families receiving democratic beneficence doing? Are you sure those communities would be worse off with different leadership? Both parties agree on the need for daycare reform to support working families. Where's O been on this?[/quote]

All of those things are necessary, but the point is that the conservative positions on them are inherently contradictory.

If you taught people about sex and how to have it safely and made birth control easily accessible, then far fewer people would get pregnant unintentionally. If we took those prophylactic measures, then many of the other things, while still necessary, would cost a lot less. (And, with fewer unplanned pregnancies there would be less demand for abortions! Gee, wouldn't that be a good thing?) And, as an added bonus, if you get people using condoms you reduce the incidence of STDs, lowering medical costs to society.

So, if you have fewer unplanned pregnancies, you can actually focus resources on prenatal education and care, making it more likely that the babies are born healthier - lowering the cost of post-partum medical care. Yay!

And, if you support SNAP and Head Start (and don't buy into the debunked but never released myth of the welfare queen), and then support the continued education of young mothers and integration into the work force, then you have healthier children who are more likely to grow up and NOT go to jail and children and mothers who are actually more likely to be productive, tax paying members of society.

If the children and mothers require less medical care and fewer interventions, that lowers the cost to society as a whole.

If fewer people go to jail, that lowers the cost to society as a whole.

So, if conservatives could just unclench themselves from the idea that they can prevent sex from happening and that any sex out of wedlock is shameful, then we could actually get around to making sex safer, making pregnancy safer and healthier, and then supporting women who get pregnant because we actually DO care about both their lives and the lives of their children. [/quote]

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