Bad news:
The rate of births to unmarried women has risen in Michigan, particularly among single mothers in their early 20s...
More from The Detroit News:
Troubling birth newsFewer teens are having babies in Michigan, but more single women in their early 20s are, according to the Right Start in Michigan report, released earlier in the week. The annual report looks at births in Michigan and is put out by Kids Count with the Michigan League for Human Services. In the past nine years, births to single mothers have increased 20 percent. The report also found that 60 percent of births to women between 20 and 24 were to single women. In 2009, births to unmarried women accounted for around 40 percent of all births. These are troubling numbers and don't bode well for the future of these women and children — nor for Michigan. As the reports says, women who are not married when they give birth are likely to remain single and live in poverty. That's no way to raise a family.
But the
Detroit Free Press has a solution, and it has nothing to do with honoring marriage which is the opposite of what liberals have been doing. The solution? Why taxpayer funded abortions of course:
But he has not pushed back against a Legislature intent on slashing funds to provide family planning, paring back unemployment benefits and taking other steps that hurt people in poorer households, and children in particular.
What I highlighted is the drive to defund Planned Parenthood. PP does not decrease unwanted pregnancies. They just kill the babies. Along those same lines, from The Grand Rapids Press:
Michigan's sharp rise in births to unwed moms means 'a lot more children growing up in poverty' ...The league calls for more family support services, support for Medicaid, access to family planning and a recognition that women's health is key to infant health. Zehnder-Merrill decried state budget cuts that have reduced teen pregnancy prevention services, family planning and cash assistance programs.
In other words, more abortion and more welfare. Welfare by the way is exactly why especially black families have been decimated - the father was replaced with Big Government. Oh - did I mention that Planned Parenthood's condoms have
the highest failure rate of any condom as listed by the CDC? They only wish to control population by murdering babies, not by preventing pregnancies in the first place. Giving them more money will make the problem worse, not better.