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braden:
trife are you offering to buy florida teens their miley cyrus tattoos?
that is the difference. they can do it, but dont hold your hand out looking for us to pay for it.
tell what a woman can do? if i pay for it, then yes?
i do, but in canada, not murka
braden, I agree that people who choose to have an abortion should pay for it themselves. On the other hand, if you don't allow her that choice (to have an abortion), are you saying that you are willing to pay to raise the child, since you give her no other choice after she has become pregnant?
Think of this...It costs approximately $400 to have an abortion, but I believe it's hundreds of thousands of dollars to raise a child. Which bill would the taxpayers be more willing to pay, if forced to choose one? Plus, what kind of child might we get from a home that was forced to raise this child? Quite possibly a criminal, or, if his parents happened to be on welfare, then he too is likely to end up on welfare.
What of the young parents entering college, but cannot afford to raise a child and go to college? Now we have 1 or 2 people who could have gone to college and become successful people who then decide to have a child when they can raise it properly, or be forced to have the child now and never go to college, thus struggling just to get by from month to month. Money problems are the main cause of divorce. So, where $400 could have created a good, loving, successful family, instead, we end up with a divorced couple, with 1 or more kids who grow up in what could be a bad environment.
As for the offer to pay for the tattoos, well...people on welfare or food stamps may be forced to use that money on certain things, but if those people work, they can now use their work income to get the tattoos, so in a sense, taxpayers do pay for the tattoos for those people on gov assistance. But, even though I make this point, I'm not saying that we should make it illegal for people on welfare to get tattoos, etc.