Skylar
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They can’t tell an impoverished pregnant woman she has to carry the baby to term and then not have her kids receive any government benefits like SNAP after they are born.
Now the automatic response to this is always “well should have never gotten pregnant!”
Uh yeah no shit. Here’s the issue though: the kids exist. They exist right? Should they starve because of something their mom did? Probably not right? You guys get so caught up in shaming the woman that you forget why they get SNAP in the first place. The benefits they get is a small fraction of the full cost to raise a kid every year therefore it’s ridiculous to suggest the mom is profiting off of having kids.
Now some republicans’ fascist solution to this is to force the mom to put the kids up for adoption. Well that’s obviously a stupid idea. It’s not like people are lining up to adopt the kids huh? Meanwhile such a foster system would cost the government an astronomical amount of money per year. Far more than the cost of SNAP.
Do republicans realize how insane it is to suggest a ludicrous idea like this just so that mere PENNIES will not be taken out of their OWN paychecks to pay for this program?
Yeah really Christian of you guys! Jesus would be proud.
Sure they can....if you understand what republicans are actually aiming for.
Republicans don't actually give a fiddler's fuck about children. Abortion isn't about kids. Abortion is about forcing women to bear children against their will. Its about controlling them and trying to impose upon them a lifestyle they don't want.
Which is why they force this onto girls as young as 10, even when they've been raped. Women are forced to bear their rapists babies. And if they can't prove the rape in a court of law, share custody with the men who raped them.
That's the republican way.
And its about forcing women to be dependent on men. And restoring a man's place as the head of a household, with a woman dependent upon him to live. Men in such positions won't need to be better partners, or treat their wives better. By nature of their need, a woman will be forced to endure more abuse, less independence, more subjugation.
That's the republican way.
*Especially* if this subjugation is wrapped in evangelical Christianity. So women can be pressured externally and internally to accept their status as less than the men they depend on. Women are much easier to control when you can raise them to believe that men should have dominion over them.
If there was a strong social support system, it would undermine their primary goal: subjugating women by forcing them into dependency on men. If there was a strong social support system: healthcare for children, day care, food assistance women could support their children without men.
Which is why republicans will try and erode such networks. The fewer options they have, the greater their burden, the harder is to avoid dependency on a man. As this was always, always about the sexual subjugation of women.