1) Working hard, being self-reliant and taking responsibility for your own life are good for you and will make you much happier than having too much leisure time, being overly dependent and giving others responsibility for your life.
2) The more a behavior is rewarded with attention, fame, sympathy or money, the more of it we'll see. We recognize this almost instinctively when it comes to good behaviors, but we also tend to almost habitually block it out when it comes to behaviors we don't want to encourage.
3) There's nothing shameful about being poor -- but, if you stay...












So are you saying that the female half of a coupling has the only say in the future of an unborn child?
Your contention makes no allowance for a father. How utterly unsophisticated! What if the mother is unstable or unfit to make such a decision? What if she promised her partner a child and now reneges? What if she is using her womb as a tool for extortion?
It should not regulate, fund, enable nor opine on abortion. Abortion is simply not the federal government's domain.
Similarly the federal government should not be involved in ANY aspect of medicine, it's simply not part of the federal government's function...nor should it be.