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raising2moredems

(638 posts)
10. And it is more than just bearing the child...
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 11:04 PM
Sep 2021

Raising a healthy child is not inexpensive and society pitches in with the cost (schools). The very same people who rail against adults collecting disability are painfully silent in this situation. If the parents can't raise the child or the parent die, now the burden falls on society. And again, the "pro-lifers" have no issue with Medicaid paying but refuse an otherwise healthy child medical care, safe drinking water/housing, adequate food, the list goes on.

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