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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So free is ok, but paying you to take it is racist?[/quote]

Free birth control for all who want it is fine.

Paying someone an incentive to be on birth control is a type of coercion. We don't need to be doing that.

Honestly, if the offer of free birth control with a cash incentive for all who wanted it were made available across the country just as a matter of course?  I'd be OK with that.  As long as it was available to everyone regardless of race I wouldn't think it was racist.

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It was available to those receiving public assistance, not just certain races receiving assistance, but see how people keep twisting it?

The only qualification was those receiving assistance, so it was available to everyone regardless of race, that met that qualification. [/quote]

Making the birth control available and free to people receiving public assistance would not be a problem.

Making the birth control mandatory for those on assistance, or even providing financial inducements get the birth control to people on public assistance is the problem.  It is a problem, even if the requirement is made of all races.  Even if the inducements are offered to all races.  Why?  Because it is coercive.

It smacks of past history where members of the "feeble" races were sterilized.  And minorities in the US are more heavily represented on public assistance, than whites, so the policy is more likely to keep minorities from reproducing than whites.

That's why people say it is racist.  Even if it isn't directed at a certain race, it has an effect on some races more than others.

The answer is easy -- don't require the birth control and don't provide financial inducements for taking it.  Just make birth control easy to access, and free.  Provide birth control free of charge through Medicaid, Medicare and the ACA.  And hey, BTW, teach sex ed and birth control in high school and make birth control available there (for free) as well.  Provide funding for Planned Parenthood too!

You don't need to force women on food stamps or TANF or WIC to be injected with Norplant to get their benefits.  Just make birth control easy to get anf free, and educate teen girls on how to use contraception.   None of that is racist.[/quote]

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