Abused Omaha toddler (above), murdered Myls Dobson (below)
Over the past week an Omaha, NE video of a toddler
being grossly abused (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIUpvtIqgKw) and a another toddler murdered in New York
City (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fz5ouzWV20) have captured the attention
of much of the country.
Dimwitted people in the national media have rushed
to defend the Omaha situation as a “lifestyle,” much the way CNN’s Melissa
Harris-Perry defended a welfare mother who’d had six children by five different
men as a “lifestyle” choice...this is not a valid viewpoint.
While I'll admit that I've never thought about the
possibility of such a situation in terms of a legitimate “lifestyle choice,”
but I’m quite certain that if I’d had, I’d have rejected that possibility out
of hand. It’s not Ms Harris-Perry’s fault that she’s not very bright, nor is it
her fault that she seems to fail to see the reason for the widespread support
for abortion on demand as eugenics...the poor take far more advantage of
abortion than do middle class women and black females (appx 6% of the
population) account for a whopping 35% of all abortions nationwide!
All of that is “to the good,” but unfortunately it
doesn't go far enough, at least not nearly far enough to save the dysfunctional
from themselves.
The case of 3 y/o Myls Dobson and that of the
unnamed Omaha toddler clearly show that the dysfunctional poor cannot humanely
be left to their own devices. Mandating contraception for the dependent poor
and declaring all dependent poor as “unfit parents,” while on those dependency
programs is the ONLY way to prevent such cases from recurring is to prevent such
irresponsible people from having children to abuse.
Mandated contraception, far from a ‘punishment,” is
instead a means of keeping the chronically irresponsible from being burdened
with responsibilities they cannot possibly meet.
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