The recent and ongoing assault on women’s reproductive health rights has taken a turn for the worse. Witness legislative attempts in various states that would make sure there are no funds available for not only lower-income women but also lower-income men who also access these clinics for their own reproductive health. This comes after the successful wave of welfare and other types of aid is cut, not to mention the attempts to cut the amount of food aid to the children in grade schools.
Of course, teachers are also expendable because they help these youngsters look for a better life. So teachers are demonized in order that the unions, which help protect them, are more easily decertified.
So, this is what it looks like to me: an upsurge of poor children, ill-fed, ill-cared-for medically, being born into our society because Republicans want unlimited “fodder” for their cannons and unlimited needy people who will work for next to nothing. As soon as the population is sufficiently poor and needy, factories will again grace our shores with “jobs for all” or at least for those who will work for pennies and no medical care. And that will be most of us.
Vivian E. van Dijk
Brush Prairie
