{"id":31087,"date":"2012-10-24T15:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T21:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/thinking-of-the-children.html"},"modified":"2012-10-24T15:10:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T21:10:06","slug":"thinking-of-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/thinking-of-the-children.html","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of the children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely. A proposed Pennsylvania bill that blocks any increase in food stamps from a child conceived while the mother is in the program. \u00a0Unless it was from rape or incest, in which case the mother has to certify that she reported it to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>So we want to discourage (and certainly not publicly fund!) contraception, and abortion is right out &#8230; so I guess poor people should just abstain from sex while on welfare, or else plan on even less food around the table for the kids, including any newborn children. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How compassionately conservative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117800110659124563147'>Think Progress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Family values<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/foodstamps-300x225.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/10\/24\/1083101\/proposed-bill-food-stamp-benefits-raped\/'>Pennsylvania Bill Would Reduce Food Stamp Benefits For Women Who Cannot Prove They Were Raped<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA Pennsylvania House bill seeks to limit the amount of food stamp assistance that low-income women receive based on the amount of children they give birth to while covered under the program. Despite t&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Bv1SSMpuX4n' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely. A proposed Pennsylvania bill that blocks any increase in food stamps from a child conceived while the mother is in the program. \u00a0Unless it was from rape or incest, in which case the mother has to certify that she reported it to law enforcement. So we want to discourage (and certainly not publicly fund!) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/thinking-of-the-children.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thinking of the children&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6366,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/14\/havent_done_thi.html","url_meta":{"origin":31087,"position":0},"title":"Haven&#8217;t done this sort of exercise in many, many years &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Sep-04 10:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a variation on the old Lifeboat exercise. 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