I have NO confidence this money is going to be spent on prenatal care.
Subsidizing something leads to more of that something
Welfare.
Pay teen and twenty-somethings $50/month to not get pregnant.
The article talks about “ pregnant residents”, “ pregnant Philadelphians”, and “pregnant people”. The writers of these articles are so damn afraid to slip and say something about “pregnant women”. Political correctness seems to trump all other considerations.
Knowing Philadelphia’s city government, they probably call them “pregnant people” instead of “pregnant women.”
It seems the USA is at a peak-empire, money devaluation phase, much like Rome in the 2nd century.
We are still powerful, but our rulers are too corrupt, and too invested in their own ideology. We spend on bread, circuses, and wars.
Which will continue, until we can’t anymore.
“pregnant residents”
Considering the social importance, you’d think there would be an English word for a body that is designed to get pregnant.
What about pregnant men? How much do they get?
They will pay 250 black momma’s to have a kid for one year.
After that, the rest of us will be stuck paying the additional welfare payments till the kid is 18. At that point, the kid will no doubt have been sent jail for murder, and we will still be stuck paying for their incarceration.
And around, around it goes, until the collapse finally hits home.
[This could be perceived as incentive to get pregnant and/or as an incentive to not get an abortion.]
Or both. Collect $1000 for 8 months, then have a free abortion. Spread and repeat.
Whatever you subsidize you get more of........................
$18,000 no-strings-attached guaranteed income to have a baby.
Limit these payments to pregnant women with documented IQs BELOW 70.
I see that the requirements include a) where they live and b) that they make less than $100K per year.
I do not see a requirement that states the woman must be married.
$1K per month for 18 months. Keep throwing money at them, what could possibly go wrong...?
Reminds me of Canadian born comedian Martin Short.
I don’t know about now, but way back when, the Canadian government provided money (I can’t recall if it was a lump sum or monthly stipend) to women who had given birth in order to help them with the expenses of a newborn child. Diapers, baby formula, clothes, etc.
According to Martin in his autobiography, due to some quirk in the law, because Martin came from a large family (he was the 5th and the last child), the government couldn’t give his parents the money at the time of Martin’s birth. Instead, the money didn’t come in until Martin was a teenager. And because he was no longer an infant, the money had to go directly to Martin himself instead of his parents.
Martin bragged how he used some of the money to buy himself a reel to reel tape recorder and a case of scotch. (”Yay, socialism!”)
I can’t help but think how some tax paying middle class guys in canada are struggling and working hard to put food on the table and keep a roof over the heads of their families while their money is going to some pissant teenaged stranger so that he could buy himself a case of scotch and a tape recorder.
The decline in pregnancies was actually a good thing. It’s called natural selection. The last thing the world needs is a bunch of feral pieces a chit being born.
And can they just abort the baby at month 9?
Get pregnant, get a cool grand each month, get welfare and other freebies for life.
What a deal!