Moonhead
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead I do always find it strange the way the right to lifers insist that a blob of meat that's probably going to grow up on a trailer park is of more worth than somebody whose been to medical school. They'd rather lose a Doctor and gain another welfare case, then have the brass neck to turn around and start whinging about social security spending? Classist much??? That blob of meat could have been a great scientist... or the next Hitler. It could come across that way a bit, now you mention it. That isn't what I was getting at, though. I was just thinking of one of my personal maggots with the religious right: that the same people who insist that every child, however unwanted, must be brought to term are the same people who are rabidly opposed to welfare spending. I'd have a lot more sympathy for the right to lifers if they were willing to see the NWO budget to educate house and feed the brats they insist that any woman they've got pregnant by denying her sex education and the ability to find a chemists where some self righteous xtian isn't refusing to stock condoms is obliged to have. To my mind, insisting that somebody lives a shitty life when their parents want to get rid of them is an outrageous act of cruelty, and classist or not, it does tend to be the underclass that gets its numbers raised by that, not the professional classes. For all of the Horatio Alger stuff, I never get the impression that you're big on social mobility (at least heading upwards) in the 'States. There's a lot more scope to fall into the poverty trap than there is to escape it.
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