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Originally Posted by jikelly  People wind up with unplanned pregnancies all the time. One little slip up and BAM there's another mouth to feed. Course I guess if they know they aren't making enough to support that extra mouth they can choose to give the child up one way or another. Is that what they should do?
Stop acting responsible then you can stop being so jealous of those irresponsible free loaders. |
An unplanned pregnancy isn't a 'little slip up', it's a monumental mistake if you can't afford the child.
That 'little slip up' attitude is the problem. If people would treat an unplanned pregnancy as something that can't happen under any circumstance, then chances are it won't. Once I had my second child, I realized that was all I would be able to manage and there could be no more pregnancies, and there weren't. It can be done, it's a matter of people caring enough to take responsibility for their actions and the consequences.
Birth control is available free at Planned Parenthood and community health departments. You can buy it in the drug store, grocery store or even WalMart or Target. Any doctor can write a prescription for birth control and so can Nurse Practitioners. Birth control is easy, readily available and often free. Lots of insurance plans will pay a significant portion of a tubal ligation, mine paid half if I remember correctly and I came up with the other half to make sure I'd never get pregnant again.
But that's for another thread topic, excepting how the social programs indigent people access to deal with these 'slip ups' are funded with tax money.