Vetoes

It is being said that all children are entitled to health care. This is true, but that care should be provided solely by their parents. Don't ask the taxpayers to contribute to what is your responsibility.

Child bearing is a voluntary activity, and if you suspect, or it has been proven, that you will be unable to support your children, don't have them. Abstinence is a 100% effective way to avoid pregnancy. If contraception does not violate your religious principles (or if you have none), there are many methods you can employ which are up to 99% effective in preventing conception.

If a woman has been raped or has been a victim of that small contraceptive failure rate, there is always adoption. Agencies take care to place babies with parents who can support them. Mothers who are unsure they can provide all the needs of their new-borns should avail themselves of those agencies.

If all else fails, I would agree that wards of the state should receive at least as much medical care as prisoners. It is a sad commentary on the condition of families, however, when we have to take the children away because the parents make it the only way they can receive medical care, and we must grudgingly accommodate their irresponsibility for the sake of the innocent.