Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought'
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoHaving a disability is absolutely “luck” as is potentially having kids. No birth control is 100% effective.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 months ago
You can’t have a disabled child if you don’t choose to have a child in the first place.
Are you really pretending this woman accidentally found herself pregnant on 7 occasions? And that on each occasion, she accidentally had the child without ever making a choice to keep it instead of pursuing an abortion? And that nowhere, throughout any of these 7 births, was she ever in control of her life to the extent that she could have made choices that led her down an entirely different path?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
why is having kids wasting money, but a medical procedure such as abortion not a waste of money? what value is generated from the abortion?
trk@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I feel like you’re arguing for the sake of arguing. Nothing you’re saying makes sense beyond being contrite.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
no I’m arguing against the eugenics-basred thought-terminating cliche that “poor people are poor because they have children” which is a nonsense.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Firstly, I have never said children are a “waste” of money, I have only said that raising them impacts one’s financial situation.
As for how the two are different: an abortion is a standalone cost. A child is an ongoing cost lasting at least 18 years, quite possibly much longer if one aspires to be a supportive parent.