Tax payers shouldnt pay for either. Encouraging single motherhood by subsidizing it leads to greater crime and economic dysfunction.
What evidence do you have for this?
The areas with the highest unwanted teen pregnancy are right wing with strict abortion and anti sex ed laws.
And the parts of Africa where Catholics enforced strict anti-abortion and anti-sex ideals were utterly catastrophic in terms of the damage they did economically, health wise, crimewise.
One of the biggest arguments for abortion period is that pretty much every society that embraces it ends up better off than societies that condem it.
Single motherhood rates exploded since LBJs Great Society. You know why subsidizing single motherhood leads to more of it. Replace single motherhood with clean energy companies.
What? When did single motherhood have anything to do with the subject at hand? Sex ed, abortion, and contraception are the best ways in reducing unwanted pregnancy, thereby also reducing single motherhood as well.
The above comment thread started as a response to the standard leftist threat of, "if the government doesn't pay for my birth control and abortions, and has to pay for my welfare when I have kids I can't pay for." I'm saying that tax payers shouldn't be on the hook for any of the above. ---
"I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." Thomas Sowell