What Are They Going To Do About All The Unwanted Babies?

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Fri, 22/12/2023 - 11:30
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Fri, 22/12/2023 - 11:30
Anti-abortion zealots aren’t going to adopt them, that’s for sure We know they don’t care about babies once they’re out of the womb. Why would they want to adopt them? Reminder: Sixty percent of kids who have lost Medicaid coverage this year came from just nine states, all of which are Republican-led, according to new data from the Biden administration. And the 10 states refusing the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults have disenrolled more kids than all of the expansion states combined, the administration also reported… Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Dakota and Texas Some of those states (I’m looking at you Texas and Florida) among those states with the most draconian abortion bans in the nation. This should be embarrassingly hypocritical to these people but they are shameless. After all, these are the same clinic harassers who whine that the man “harassing” them about adoption is being rude. I highly recommend reading this piece in In These Times about what happens to people who are forced to have more children than they can afford. This is happening in Mississippi: I first wrote about Lationna after visiting her in March, when she was still on unpaid maternity leave. She told me then that she had always planned to have a second baby someday, once her life was more stable. She’d wanted to be married, better paid, and for the family to live in a house instead of their cramped apartment in West Jackson, Miss. She’d been planning to…