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Unplanned Pregnancies Cost Taxpayers $11 Billion ("Planned Parenthood" needs your taxes)
Ms. Magazine ^ | 20 May

Posted on 05/24/2011 6:57:06 AM PDT by flowerplough

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To: stuartcr

That false assumption is what leads liberals to be liberals -

that people don’t respond to incentives and consequences.

This is why libs reject the idea of free markets and capitalism in favor of controlled economies.


21 posted on 05/24/2011 7:43:36 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: flowerplough

The words stupid and irresponsible, when talking about sexual intercourse have been replaced with the phrase “unplanned pregnancy”. The truth is that every time a man and woman engage in sexual intercourse they are planning a pregnancy. After all, isn’t that what sexual intercourse is for?


22 posted on 05/24/2011 7:44:45 AM PDT by 1raider1
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Ironically, the left’s “solution” for global warming is for everyone to sit around in the dark and shiver...

and if you’re in mixed company, that’ll lead to more humans.


23 posted on 05/24/2011 7:45:38 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: stuartcr
Wouldn’t work. As long as people are people, they will continue to have sex, regardless of the consequences. It’s just the way it is.

Not subsidizing the costs of unplanned pregnancy certainly would not get rid of the problem, but it would significantly reduce it to the point where it is more of an aberration instead of a rule. Teenage pregnancies were not a major problem until the government decided it would start paying for the costs of them, as well as paying for the costs of the children that resulted.

24 posted on 05/24/2011 7:46:18 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: flowerplough

“unintended pregnancies”

Yeah, right! There may be a few (very, very few), who don’t understand ‘where babies come from’, who get pregnant. But 99%+ know that if you copulate, you can become pregnant.

If you copulate, there is a good chance you will become pregnant/father a child.

If you drive after drinking, there is a good chance that you will either:
1) get a ticket
2) cause an accident
3) kill someone

It is called Personal Responsibility.

Actions have consequences.

“Gee, I didn’t plan to end up in debt to the mob for $100,000. I only went to Vegas, party-ed, drank like a fish and hit the casinos?”

We laugh/wince at the idiots in the “Hey Bubba, hold my beer. Watch this!” videos which end in disaster.

Skateboard jumps onto a handrail can & do created eunuchs.

If you don’t want an “unplanned pregnancy”, don’t copulate until you are prepared to become pregnant/father a child.

Simple rule, simple result.

“Abstinence works every time it’s tried”

/rant


25 posted on 05/24/2011 7:48:05 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less." M Rosen)
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To: Dogbert41

"This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the people 60,000 Reichmarks during his lifetime. People, that is your money. Read 'New People'."

26 posted on 05/24/2011 7:48:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: pnh102

For many young girls in a dysfunctional family setting,
getting a free apartment, free food, utilities, etc,

for having a baby out of wedlock

is too great an incentive to pass up.

“Government sponsored child bearing” is a “profession” these days.


27 posted on 05/24/2011 7:50:42 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: stuartcr

So, get yourself out there and start a foundation to support the fruit of their unwise decisions. You don’t have time to be on the internet chatting with the rest of us!


28 posted on 05/24/2011 7:59:09 AM PDT by brytlea (If you don't know what APOD is you'd better find out!)
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To: flowerplough

I believe unplanned but welcome pregnancies have been the norm from the beginning of time.


29 posted on 05/24/2011 8:14:41 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: pnh102

Exactly!!!!


30 posted on 05/24/2011 8:18:41 AM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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To: flowerplough

Abortions kill future productive workers and taxpayers.

How does this “cost” society or government?


31 posted on 05/24/2011 8:22:37 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bamanomics: Trickle Up Poverty.)
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To: stuartcr

I don’t know and personally don’t care, abortion should be ended it’s murder. But, your talking different cultures too. Some of which don’t know how babies are made, most aren’t Christian. Think their manhood depends on how many kids they have, especially male babies. Women don’t have the same rights, ect.


32 posted on 05/24/2011 8:23:07 AM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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To: MrB

Right


33 posted on 05/24/2011 9:03:04 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: pnh102

They have always been a major problem, just very well-kept secrets. Besides, kids were not as mobile as they are now, and there whereabouts were more controlled. I’m sure that if kids didn’t have jobs, after-school activities, vehicles, and 2 parents that work full-time, things would be like they were in the good ole days. That’s just not reality.


34 posted on 05/24/2011 9:06:18 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: brytlea

Sorry, too busy. Besides, at my age too much work and I wouldn’t even know how to start. Guess it will just continue as is.


35 posted on 05/24/2011 9:08:07 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: MsLady

2011 and you think there are cultures that don’t know how babies are made? Ireland, Malta, most every Catholic country in Central and South America?


36 posted on 05/24/2011 9:11:09 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: stuartcr

Well, and a lot easier to let other people pay for it. I get it.


37 posted on 05/24/2011 1:18:50 PM PDT by brytlea (If you don't know what APOD is you'd better find out!)
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To: brytlea

We each pay something. I’m doing my part through my taxes, just like most everyone else. I’ll leave the fund-raising for whatever cause to those that know how.


38 posted on 05/25/2011 7:21:37 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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