Frances Ess must be one naive cunt to imply that women have the right to enjoy sex but must not be made to bear any risk of pregnancy.
If they were machiam hens laying eggs then I give it to them lah!
Over here in Australia, the big mistake was to award single unwed moms similar welfare and baby bonuses as couples.
From then, time and time again you hear of these mums coming out with all manner of sob stories that even what they already are given is not enough.
You give them tax-payer subsidized homes - They cry they cannot break out of the poverty line and have to work like a dog.
You give them additional welfare for additional kids - They cry they still cannot make ends meet and that they live a life of shattered dreams.
You give them more rights to parental support to help with bills - They cry over their daily lattes that their partner's payments are always late.
You give their partners more shared custody to help the parenting burden - They cry over their new found bf's orgasms that it is invading their personal space.
And it just becomes a cyclical basket case of excuses upon excuses.
Worse still, there are those that procreate and mistreat children just to get the welfare for their next hit or high, abandoning their kids to their exes or their elderly parents.
And with Singapore's moral fibre already being at breaking point with the recent spate of ills brought about by promiscuity, gambling and corruption, it is not a stretch to say that if bleeding heart liberals like Frances Ess had their way, it will doom Singaporean taxpayers to a feeding a very special class of politically-correct whore in both the financial and carnal sense.
Unwed mothers need help, too
From Frances Ess
04:46 AM Aug 15, 2012
Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew expressed concerns, in "'Enormous' problems if S'poreans don't procreate: LKY" (Aug 11, online), over Singapore's low fertility rate.
Perhaps it is time to consider a mindset change: That every unborn life is precious and that unwed mothers should get more help and support than they do now.
They do not have a spouse to form a family unit to get a new public flat. The Marriage and Parenthood Package is an incentive for married couples and the Baby Bonus is not extended to single, unwed mothers.
Many of them would consider abortion a more viable alternative, and it has been reported that a large number of cases do involve unwed women.
After years of declining birth rates, perhaps Education Minister Heng Swee Keat, who will be taking a fresh look at our policies and engaging Singaporeans in a "national conversation" on this, could consider slaughtering the attitudes towards unwed mothers.
I do not, myself, condone premarital sex. I still believe that the best way to bring up children is within a family, anchored by a loving relationship between a husband and wife. But the child of an unwed woman is innocent.
Would my proposal cause more teenagers and women to be promiscuous? I have not come across any woman who considers unfriendly attitudes towards unwed mothers as an effective contraceptive. That is because women who choose to have sex, do so regardless of society.
However, I believe the birth rate would increase if we accept each unborn child as precious and deserving of a chance to live. Or is it that all unborn children are equal but some are more equal than others?
Our birth rate trend is now a national crisis. We do not have the luxury to demand that all children must be born within a conventional family structure.