A new requirement we should add - if a family signs up for welfare, teen girls and women who could have children MUST have an IUD or Norplant.
If you cannot afford the children you have, we cannot afford for you to have another one. We can’t trust you to be smart enough or responsible enough to maintain birth control that is easy to screw up, and it is unfair to demand the public pay for (or force) abortions.
When you are either able to support yourself or marry someone who does, the implant/IUD comes out.
This eliminates the temptation to have a baby to avoid having to go to work or train. It avoids the accidental pregnancies that keep other women trapped in a deteriorating situation.
“A new requirement we should add - if a family signs up for welfare, teen girls and women who could have children MUST have an IUD or Norplant.”
Straight out of godless totalitarianism 101.
I’ve been saying this for 30 years now. Way back I was dating a sing mom who was on assistance. We split up but crossed paths and got back together for a bit. In the meantime she went out and git knocked up again and was single mom x2. I told her that state should put her on norplant (it was new at the time) as terms of her benefits. With my such attitude, you can guess we didn’t stay together long.