You know, there was a period of several years in my life where I was a single mother making not QUITE enough money to pay for rent and food and childcare. It would have been easier for me to NOT work and collect welfare; I made just enough that I was above the cutoff for things like WIC and Medicare, and I could have…

It reads like a joke but honestly that seems to be their actual plan. It’s beyond satire. Rich white ladies must stay home and have babies. Any other type of lady should be ashamed to even exist and CERTAINLY shouldn’t be reproducing.

If you can even find your baby an open spot at a daycare that soon. I’m a white collar worker that got on waitlists 11 months in advance and I’m still not gonna get off any waiting lists before my 12 weeks of FMLA is up. And I can afford whichever daycare. I don’t know what people with fewer options do.

That’s because #1 applies to good (aka white) christian wives of good (aka rich and white) christian men.

You got through law school with a newborn (and subsequent baby and toddler)? Jesus, I struggled to write my Master’s dissertation with a new puppy. All the respect!

It’s just mind-bogglingly stupid.

I’m curious also to what this will mean for welfare in general. A friend who works for PA welfare told me that women on welfare get 6 weeks post partum, longer w/medical documentation, and a year’s worth of exemption to be used in a lifetime to care for a newborn. Apparently they tried this work requirement path…

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These guys are fucking obsessed with the idea that maternity care and maternity leave is “getting one over on them.” See also: Gorsuch’s comments to his law students about the delicious scam of maternity leave. God forbid they have to help pay for the babies they claim to love and value so much. Women should only…

Paul Ryan benefited from some of the programs he wants to cut! He’s such an asshole!

They can’t because they are

He has dreamed of cutting Medicaid since he was drinking from a keg, according to him.

Seriously. Why the fuck do I have to pay for his testicular cancer screenings? Why do I have to pay for anything that doesn’t affect me directly? I pave my own roads and teach my own schools and put out my own fires too! I AM AN ISLAND AND MY ISLAND HAS NO MAN-PARTS.

If you wanted to go to law school with a kid, you should have been born a man like God intended.

Once again, the same party that opposes abortion supports legislature that would increase them. What on earth do you think will happen if a woman who didn’t opt into maternity plans gets pregnant? When my parents moved to the US my mom had to move back for a few months because I was a preexisting condition. Luckily…

I’ve talked here before about having my son in my first semester of law school.

It’s like they can’t help themselves from sounding and looking completely out of touch.

These fucking people. What’s next, a clubbing baby seals amendment?

I basically stopped breathing when I read this. The man’s skin was burned off of his body, for fucks sake. So police officers, corrections officers—they can just torture, beat, rape, and murder average citizens, crime suspects, and inmates as much as they want, as long as those people are poor and/or non-white? Those…

Why the fuck is there no “governor” on the water temperature, so that it can’t exceed a given level? If it’s not supposed to be over 120 degrees, why do guards have the ability to crank it up by another 33%???