Bring on our new Supreme Court Justice

Your reasoned response demands unwanted children be born - even in cases where they will have severe birth defects and or mental retardation.    Then you spend the rest of their life whining about paying for their foster care, food and medicine.

And that is no small variable in the reason why Texas' food stamp per capita ratio is bigger than that of California.    Rinse and repeat for the entire bible belt in the Southeast.

Pro-lifer's play a large role in balloning up the welfare programs they constantly complain about.

Allright PJ, You have NO WAY of backing up your generalized accusations, however I do happen to agree with you. I hope R V W actually never comes up.

I  do not object for helping the handicap children and adults in our country! They have a very real need for assistance. A great many of them work a job as best they can.

I do however have a huge problem with generational welfare because they don’t think they need to work for a living. 

Not sure why lefties and Dems feel Roe/Wade is going to be overturned? I thought each state still had a right to retain,right?

I, as many of you feel it is a women’s choice. I oppose abortion but their are circumstances that certainly would justify it in cases

I, contrary to PJ's perception of me, agree completey with rdwoodpecker's posting. I did notice that PJ's chart is from 2011, I wonder what a CURRENT chart would depict, I suspect that the rankings would be different.

Umm, . . . DonDiego opines there are likely demographic variables other than "unwanted children" in Texas and the Bible Belt which dominate the disproportionately high poverty levels in those States.

He leaves the discovery of those demographics as an excercise for the reader.

PJ "cherry picks" a word here, and phrase there , combines them and then makes another false report. So much for liberal reporting of distorted facts - business as usual.

Allright PJ..., however I do happen to agree with you. I hope R V W actually never comes up.

I agree. I don't think anybody likes abortion, but what if your spouse, girlfriend, or daughter got raped? Would you want the government to force her to give birth to that child?  Most conservatives want to take that decision out of the hands of the victim and give it to the government. There is nothing worse than a mentally damaged mom being forced to raise a kid that reminds them of their victimization. In a lot of states, a rapist retains parental rights, so not only would the mom have to raise a kid she doesn't want, she would be forced into an 18-year long co-parenting relationship with her rapist. 

And of course, as PJ mentioned conservatives will bitch and moan about having to provide the child and her mom services. 

Mark, I don’t think your “perception” of conservatives anywhere close to accurate!

Under the conditions of rape and such many many conservatives do not dispute the abortion rights! What I do have a problem with is lazy bastards taking no responsibility to exist. 

On the abortion issue my views are not really different than yours.

This is the clear difference between a Conservative justice and a Liberal justice, provided by Justice Anthony Scolia.  It should be known prior to reading this quote that Scolia disliked abortion greatly.

“My view is that regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it. It leaves it up to democratic choice.  Some states prohibited it and some states didn’t.  What Roe vs. Wade said was that no state can prohibit it.  That is simply not in the Constitution.”

He stated another time, if you don't like Roe vs. Wade, change the Constitution.

In other words, he was clear in stating that his personal opinions should not effect his rulings.  Liberal judges do not hold these feelings.

This is likely true.    In addition to advocating babies from unwanted pregancies many red states engage in other self destructive behavior.     Not investing in public eduction probably tops the list.