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I'm just happy to know you're concerned for their safety. We should do something about that too. Know what might work? Gun control.

Know what might really help? Ending cycles of poverty. Know a way we could do that? By not forcing them into poverty. Birth control is not free (it was but you killed Planned Parenthood, remember that?). So maybe everyone should stop having sex. That's realistic, right? Oh wait...

So you're concerned about gang violence, which is generally an issue for the most impoverished, who likely don't have healthcare and may not have the money for other birth control devices and you've forced the most well know women's health organization out of business, who used to provide these things for free and you want to force them to have babies, knowing they don't have money, creating more poverty and more desperation and higher likelihoods of violence and then... Shit. Did it come right back around?

Math is hard. Let's go shopping.

ps- I don't have internalized guilt. I haven't massacred one single school. I'm just not blind to the fact that almost all the people who have look like me and I'm smart enough to know that the only people who anyone will listen to (not everyone but most) are the ones who look like me because the only response you can muster is that I just feel guilty, which is ridiculous, I feel angry and sad.




Wanna cite some sources? I cited mine. You're making some pretty big leaps there.


https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/04/health/planned-parenthood-by-...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/minority-women-affected-...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-trauma...

I can't find a "WIC doesn't cover birth control article" but I can't one that says it does. I can also find the FAQ from PP that says they'll give you free birth control but if you're in a red state, they won't exist.

Not only is there work in this area, it's a not a leap at all. A minor application of critical thinking and logic makes cause and effect pretty simple. This has always been about forcing personal feelings onto others. We make a giant show of being anti-choice and then talk down to the poor and point out the issues in poverty stricken areas to make ourselves feel better, ignoring the clear evidence that this is a self fulfilling issue.

This was fun but I'm going to go back to getting the hell out of here, literally. I have packing to do.


Yes I personally feel bad when children are murdered. You're right. How dare I push those feelings on others.




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