Republicans were behind the women's suffrage, that's where you are wrong. How's come YOU don't know this?
Oh, baloney on the birth control, that is a fear tactic your are purporting. All of your post is nothing but a fear tactic as bad as Eric Swalwell and the Colorado governor.
It was common for women to have many children because for one, many children died in childhood and many of those children helped out with their farm and such. Children were not looked upon as burdens, they benefitted from them and they took care of their parents in their old age, not in nursing homes. My maternal grandmother who had 7 had divorced her abusive alcoholic husband when divorce was rare and paternal great grandmother who had 10, had no complaints that they had too many kids. This is the wrong way to think. And the family members all helped each other. My paternal grandmother was widowed when my father was in her womb and had one other child. She scraped her widow's pension together and bought a house, worked a laundress type of job, and never complained about raising two fine sons who had some fatherly guidance from their uncles. One went into foreign service and worked for the State Dept at various embassies around the world and one got a degree and became an engineer. I'd say that's pretty good for small town Iowa from where they came.
And as far as being "poor", being poor in today's society is not anything like being poor during the depression that the previous generation went through. I know all about that from them, too.
But you want to paint a family in a bad light and compare it to today's consumer spending centric society that poor people can't keep up with although they have basic needs met due to the welfare state that wasn't present in their generation. I dare say, there are some single moms that purposely have more kids to collect those checks but let's not digress. The point is it can be managed.
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Keelai (35236)
3 years ago
Women fought, were beaten and imprisoned for the right to contraception and sex education. Stop giving the credit to men!
Why do you think it should be illegal for a woman to be educated about sex and birth control?
You're in denial. Texas is already talking about forbidding women from having abortions out of state and Trump already denied health insurance for women to obtain contraception.
"In Trump’s first year in office, federal agencies weakened the ACA’s contraceptive mandate, allowing employers to deny birth control coverage if they had a religious or moral objection. Though the rollback was quickly tied up in the courts, dozens of employers signed separate settlements with the administration allowing them to refuse to cover birth control."
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/system-failure/the-trump-administrations-war-on-birth-control/
"U.S. Supreme Court Lets Private Companies Deny Birth Control Coverage to Employees"
https://reproductiverights.org/u-s-supreme-court-lets-private-companies-deny-birth-control-coverage-to-employees/
Some religions are against ALL birth control. The GOP is already following religious fanatics. Attached is a list of states allowing denial of contraception and sterilization by pharmacists:
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/refusing-provide-health-services
Why is any state denying contraception at all to anyone???
Not everyone lived on a farm. Many city folks didn't want to have an 11th child. Most poor people today have very few children. That will likely change if Roe is overturned, therefore don't whine about supporting their kids for 18 years.
Black people, Asians, Hispanics and Native Americans weren't allowed to have the opportunities your family had. Discrimination in housing, jobs and colleges. White skin privilege. Funny how you don't know those state department jobs were for "whites only". It's 2022 and there is still a major issue re: racism and sexual assaults:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/16/state-department-diversity-problem-476161
My parents grew up during the Depression. You don't know what you're talking about. People were poor. There were relief programs to help the poor from charities and some local governments. FDR expanded it. I used to talk about the Depression with my parents, aunts and supervisors all the time.
BTW, the Republican party was progressive and the Democrats status quo conservatives at that time. Something YOU didn't know.
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