#24 | Posted by pragmatist
Good morning. I can only speak from my own experience which I've related here before. At 25, I was a department head with a major automotive aftermarket parts store chain & had great insurance, decent income, stable life. I was single at the time, but given that I'm a woman, you'd think that wouldn't be an issue with the folks at PP, self-proclaimed protecters of all things woman.
I was 25 weeks, went in to get a sonogram to see the progress as I was not happy about being pregnant at first. Look up a baby @ 25 weeks gestation & tell me what you think. They offered no counseling, no info on prenatal care, nothing about adoption, but "given my situation" they offered me a booklet about 1/2 thick with doctors all up & down the eastern seaboard who would do abortions up to 32 weeks. My situation? A young, successful, career woman who managed to be pregnant & have the potential to raise a well-adjusted, normal kid w/o the intereference of a man? I should have been their fucking poster child!
Coincidentally enough, ALL the doctors were with PP affiliates. So yeah, they do abortions. They're abortion brokers.
The president would do better to investigate & eliminate WASTE in social programs instead of promising cuts we're not going to get. I find it ironic that we complain, rightly so, about waste on Wall Street & waste in government, but tolerate waste & outright fraud in our own communities. If you are on food stamps & getting fuel assistance, & your kids are on medicaid, you have no business buying plasma TV's & new cars & going into credit card debt for lifestyle. That's not intrusive or wanting to diminish anyone's lifestyle, that's just good old common sense.
I find it the height of irony that now that the need for these programs has increased, states are considering drug testing for recipients. Now? When the people who have been working & not on the rolls need help to bridge the gap, NOW we need drug testing? It would seem to me that's been a great idea all along & still is but it's somewhat insulting to the people who have proven they're contributing citizens. Those who are guilty of blatant abuse have been getting a free pass all along. Ass-backwards, punishing success, rewarding bad decisions, people have got to be held accountable in their own lives & families before we can expect any better from the "evil" businesses & our government.