Not likely, since J.K. Rowling was an impoverished single mother before becoming an international bestselling author.
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Thats not news to me.
Then your previous statement makes no sense.
Iām a left wing libertarian, more or less. Not a Ron Paul libertarian.
I should probably look that up myself so I better understand the differences. To be honest, Iām not that educated on it, but Iāll work on it.
Sheās in England, and is wealthy now, so sheās likely missed the welfare reform that is leading to child hunger there. They have national healthcare as well.
There is a reason why it quotes perfect use and typical use numbers.
Taking a pill at exactly the same time, never missing one, never throwing one up ā¦ yeah, that is all trivial.
It says that women can get birth control without a co-payment or having the cost of the services applied to their deductible if they go to a doctor covered by their insurance. Multiple states, however, allow doctors or pharmacists to refuse contraceptives or sterilization: Refusing to Provide Health Services | Guttmacher Institute
Even when the government was shutting down the Republicans were still trying to introduce a clause that would allow employers/insurers to opt out of providing health care services that they find morally or religiously objectionable. Have you not seen how Republicans have targeted health care clinics that provide services to women? http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/52446472#52446472
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It works like teaching abstinence works as a substitute for real sex education, which is to say not in any practical, real-world sense.
Iāve just realised that youāve seized control of the narrative from your first post by using this idea of being able to afford children as though it was a real, objective, predictive standard that other people can apply as easily as you and get the same answer. The truth is that the āstandardā is completely subjective: a pair of $100,000+ earners can look at their finances and conclude that they canāt afford childrenā¦ yet. And couples on the poverty line can decide that maybe they can. And who can say who is right?
Even in the abstract, youāre passing judgement that youāre not qualified to pass. You have no idea who can afford children and who cannot. It is not a standard you can support even in the abstract, since it is insupportable in the real.
On another post, after I asked what is to be done with these children who already have failed your test, you pulled a switcheroo when you opined that I cared about peopleās right to procreate over a childās welfare. This is a meaningless dichotomy: we were all children once, and many of us become parents. To care about a childās welfare is to care about a personās freedom; to care about a personās welfare is to care about a childās freedom. They canāt be separated.
The question is always, āWhat is to be done?ā What action does your formulation of certain people having failed your subjective standard lead you to? It very much reads to me like a subtle adoption of the individualist cant I railed against above: that other people are responsible for the judgement you make on them, and that having failed you, you must ā more in sorrow than in anger, Iām sure ā you must fail them. They do not deserve your help, and so you will not help them. Those who pass your test do not need help, so you donāt have to help them. A very tidy rationalisation for doing nothing.
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Taking a pill every day, not missing more then two days of pills, and if you do miss two avoid being sexually active until its effective again, or use another form of contraception. Its really not that hard. Certainly less inconvenient than having a child you canāt afford. It really works. Its possible to shag responsibly. Lots of us do, and those that donāt should start.
It may take more than a trivial amount of time and energy to acquire birth control. It may even be expensive. Thats what sex education and subsidized care hopes to achieve.
Yes Republicans suckā¦ they are the enemy. They have been a cabal of racists and crony capitalists since 1968. They now have extended their hatred of all things good to and for women. They also seem to share your views about birth control. Except they are happy about it, it seems.
That is so arrogant! Someone who knows more of conditions in this country than you must be wrong because she doesnāt follow your fractured logic? That is such redolent bullshit.
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There speaks the voice of experience. For how long did you take the birth-control pill, may I ask?
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Except I do something.
[quote=āBrainspore, post:225, topic:12700ā]
The only reason we have a legal and social framework that allows full-time employees to live in poverty is because we allow that framework to persist. There are a few simple steps we could take immediately (such as raising the minimum wage to keep up with inflation) that would go a long way toward changing that model. We lack only the political will to do so.[/quote]
And that is because we CHOOSE to keep it that way. Riddle me this, why ARE there fewer minimum-wage jobs EVERY single time minimum wage goes up ?? Because every time it does, it encourages business owners to either restructure for fewer workers, or automate more jobs, Thereās ALREADY an automated Burger Maker.
Sooner rather than later. . . min-wage increases will make implementing these make financial sense on a mass level. And then, NOBODY will make ANY money flipping burgers. . .
Good grief, are you kids still at it? Go outside and play!
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Or. . . .she could avoid sex when fertile. Costs nothing, and assuming youāre careful and observant, as good as any other birth control.
OR. . . .she could just use the Taxpayer Method. . .
What makes you assume J.K. Rowling knows more about the conditions in the US than me?
Oh you got me.
I give up you win.
This is Republican party doctrine, but itās not actually true. Theyāve got a nice, logical explanation for why it should be true - but the data just dont support the position. Of course, if the Kenyan Dictator autocratically set the minimum wage at $100/hour havoc would ensue. But thatās a straw man.
Every time the minimum wage goes up, Republicans predict inflation and mass unemployment, followed by socialist revolution - but it never happens. Instead, the poor, who now have increased buying power, spend their new wealth, which creates jobs and prosperity all over.
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As @Boundegar mentions, this isnāt actually true.
But perhaps you could riddle me this: whatās the point of having a minimum wage at all if it doesnāt keep up with inflation or pay enough to keep people above the poverty line?
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But someone on the internet is wrong!
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Progestin-only pills become effective after two days while combination pills can take seven days for protection to begin. Please stop making inaccurate statements about birth control pills. Also note that some websites recommend emergency contraceptives if you have sex and then miss a pill.
How did you make that logic leap? You are the one arguing that poor women should not be having sex and then pretending that women have easy access to contraceptives. If you refuse to acknowledge the fact that women face problems when trying to avoid a pregnancy, then how are you any better than the people who help create the problems? We have to face the problems before we can fix them, but you keep insisting that unintended pregnancies are happening because poor women are not as smart as you.
And during all of this you never seem to acknowledge that people can have children and then become poor. You just keep stubbornly repeating that poor people should not have kids.
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