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McConnell says people being forced to have children don’t deserve any more financial help

Author:     Joan McCarter
Source:     Daily Kos
Publication Date:     Monday August 08, 2022 | 12:32 PM PDT
 Link: McConnell says people being forced to have children don’t deserve any more financial help
Stephan:   Here is further evidence, if such were needed, that the anti-choice movement is not interested in protecting and supporting babies, or nurturing children. Their interest is only about keeping women subordinate to men and their bodies controlled by the state. The very poor health outcome data in the anti-choice Red states makes this point very clear. This is all part of the christofascist view of how American society should be structured.
McConnell to the people he’s forcing to have babies: “Good luck, you’ve got all the help you’re going to get.” Credit: Getty

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), to his very minimal credit, wants to ensure that some of the people being forced to have children get some financial support from the government, albeit minimal. He has a few Republican takers, a very few. And absolutely no support from leadership. According to Sen. Mitch McConnell, people are being coddled enough already.

“There are actually a lot of resources for expecting and new Moms, including Medicaid and S-CHIP for health care, maternal nutrition and child care programs,” McConnell spokesman Scott Sloofman told The Washington Post. “What we shouldn’t do is expand massive government stimulus programs which would exacerbate the runaway inflation that is crushing Kentucky’s working families.”

Get that? Kentucky’s working families don’t need any more help for those children Republicans are forcing them to have. Because all those programs exist, despite repeated efforts by Republicans to end them.

One of the main reasons people have been having […]

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