Well, not really. Not if you're an empathetic human-being. A group of people which does not include Republicans.
New statistics released yesterday tell us what most of us have already safely assumed -- that the constant assault on women's healthcare, women's rights, and gender-equality is taking a toll.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Unintended pregnancies, which make up nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States, are increasingly concentrated among low-income women, a study showed on Wednesday. [...]
Researchers from the Guttmacher Institute found the unintended pregnancy rate among women with incomes below the federal poverty line jumped by 50 percent between 1994 and 2006, the latest date available, from 88 per 1,000 to 132.
Meanwhile, the unplanned pregnancy rate among women with incomes at least 200 percent above the poverty line fell 29 percent from 34 per 1,000 to 24, the researchers found, using data from the federal National Survey of Family Growth.
So you're telling me the campaign for faith-based, abstinence only education during the Bush Administration, and the current nationwide Republican War on Women isn't producing positive results?
You're telling me the constant assault on organizations which primarily aid low-income women, such as Planned Parenthood, may actually be making things worse?
You're telling me limiting access to birth control and abortion, while placing all of your eggs in the abstinence-only basket, may actually be making things worse?
I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you! Who could have seen this coming?
I suppose all of the children born into poverty, who will see no help from their conservative masters once they are born, will make for a large, cheap labor force sometime in the future. Or a very dangerous flash mob with nothing to lose.
Maybe that is the desired result.