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“Love the fetus, hate the child.”

America makes it near impossible for a woman to stay autonomous—hard to get family planning resources/make the choice of getting an abortion, and harder to get child care support after the baby is born. Leaving women destitute and dependents everywhere.

Let’s put facts, where the facts are. First of all, up until now, there were no major shifts within the labor market, when it came to gender. In 2012, the number of women working surpassed men, for the first time. Thus, prior to this major shift, companies did not see the benefit in providing maternity leave, especially since women (they still do, especially within senior level position) left once they gave birth. Since, we have essential a “free market”(I wish, but that’s neither here or there) labor market, companies who want to compete for the best female employees will start offers benefits, such as maternity leave. It is still in the early phase, but it will increase as the number of women in higher positions increase. Companies want to retain talent and will do everything in their position to do so. No need for the government to step in and force companies to change their policies, especially if they don’t want to.

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llisbeth-salamanderr:

“Love the fetus, hate the child.”
America makes it near impossible for a woman to stay autonomous—hard to get family planning resources/make the choice of getting an abortion, and harder to get child care support after the baby is born. Leaving women destitute and dependents everywhere.

Let’s put facts, where the facts are. First of all, up until now, there were no major shifts within the labor market, when it came to gender. In 2012, the number of women working surpassed men, for the first time. Thus, prior to this major shift, companies did not see the benefit in providing maternity leave, especially since women (they still do, especially within senior level position) left once they gave birth. Since, we have essential a “free market”(I wish, but that’s neither here or there) labor market, companies who want to compete for the best female employees will start offers benefits, such as maternity leave. It is still in the early phase, but it will increase as the number of women in higher positions increase. Companies want to retain talent and will do everything in their position to do so. No need for the government to step in and force companies to change their policies, especially if they don’t want to.

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I have estimated statistically that the prohibition of drugs produces, on the average, ten thousand homicides a year. It’s a moral problem that the government is going around killing ten thousand people. It’s a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don’t approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else. Most of the arrests for drugs are for possession by casual users.

Now here’s somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he’s caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it’s absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That’s the issue to me.

Milton Friedman (via libertarianfolkster)

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