Dr.Traveler
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Because in the USA, we have free public education and we have a taxpayer burden for incarceration. Every child born gets a free public education here in the USA, meaning each child born is another burden on property tax. As a society, we've decided (correctly) that the value of an educated populace is worth that cost.Generally speaking, I agree I don't want to pay for other people's choices. The problem here is that I'm going to pay either way, either in the minimal cost of birth control or in the schooling or incarceration of the kid. One is very much cheaper than the other, so I'm going with the cheap one.In my view, when a woman uses birth control she is not engaging in the same behavior that got her pregnant, she is altering it by taking responsibility. And that means using birth control.
In my view, birth control is nothing but a way for a woman to escape that responsibility.
As soon as the cell in that zygote begins to divide, that is human life. When a woman starts using birth control, she is ending that life. That is the ultimate abandonment of responsibility. And in my view, an act of murder.
That is a pretty darn strong statement and one that places it all at the feet of the woman.
The pill acts, primarily to prevent pregnancy and secondarily to prevent implantation by keeping the womb hostile through the use of natural hormones. We're not incubators for potential life. Most fertalized eggs never even make it that far. Add to that the fact that many married couples also use birth control for family planning - is she escaping responsibility because she doesn't want go through ten or twelve pregnancies? Should a married couple be expected to practice abstinance?
What the fuck? Places at the "feet of women?" Fuck your brains out, spread your legs, get VD, get pregnant, what ever the fuck you want. Just do it on your own dime. What is possibly unclear about that?
That's pure economics here. The only way to 100% avoid paying for unwanted pregnancies as a citizen is to either completely stop funding education via tax money, as well as jails, or to pay for birth control. And dollar for dollar, the birth control is far cheaper.
WHY are you going to pay either way? Isn't that because leftists have decreed that we're going to be forced to take part in other people's private healthcare decisions whether we want to or not?
I love how leftists impose their worldview onto people, and then use that as an excuse why their worldview needs to be imposed even further.
On the flip side though, teenage pregnancy can often lead to poverty level conditions for a young family (more so if the mother remains single). The number one indicator of incarceration is economic setting, meaning that a not insignificant number of those kids may be put in jail at some point. That means you as a tax payer will pay for that.
This isn't a tough argument. It isn't tough to draw a straight line from the birthing room at the hospital to your bottom line. You do pay a cost in every child born, and this is before we get into hospitalization (If they can't pay you will through higher health care costs and increased insurance) and entitlements (Social Security, etc).