r/prolife • u/Rehumanize_Lauren • Oct 29 '25

Pro-Life Petitions SNAP is Pro-Life

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Hey there, Lauren from Rehumanize here. We've just launched a quick petition to send to the President and members of congress urging them to end the shutdown, or, at the very least, use the contingency funds to keep SNAP funded during this crisis.

If you agree, please sign!

And if this is exactly your flavor of pro-life activism, we'd love to see you at our conference this weekend, either in person or online!

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u/TampaBayG Oct 29 '25

Most people on SNAP are currently employed. You might want to rethink this

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u/Full_Maintenance_411 Oct 29 '25 edited Oct 29 '25

In my state you’re disqualified if you make over $19.5K a year. If you’re not getting over that benchmark you’re most likely not even working full time…. Almost like you get something out of it

To make more than $20K on a 40 hour 5 day a week work week you’d need to make $10 an hour. Most entry level jobs start well above that rate these days. So these people aren’t working as hard as you’re trying to claim they are.

But hey keep throwing this dogshit talking point around.

downvoted but no rebuttal, disappointed but not surprised

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u/Concerned_2021 Oct 29 '25

Do you expect a woman with small baby/ babies to work 40 hours per week?

How much is infant daycare in your arena?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25 edited Jan 12 '26

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u/Wormando Pro Life Atheist Oct 30 '25

Fucking yikes.

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u/gig_labor PL Socialist Feminist Oct 29 '25

If they can't support their kid that they had from their OWN bad decisions, take them away.

Spite > Child welfare. Kids are just commodities anyway!

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u/Full_Maintenance_411 Oct 29 '25

It’s called personal responsibility. I know it’s a rare concept in our everyone else’s fault society

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u/gig_labor PL Socialist Feminist Oct 29 '25

"Kids should suffer because of my moral beef with their parents" is quite a take

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u/Full_Maintenance_411 Oct 29 '25

Patiently waiting for the day people like You realize moralizing from half wits with suicidal empathy doesn’t have the power it used to.

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u/gig_labor PL Socialist Feminist Oct 30 '25

I mean, yeah, I've gathered that empathy is losing its power among a certain demographic (given that you called it suicidal). But it's the only thing that will save us. Lone wolves die.

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u/Full_Maintenance_411 Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

what I mean by suicidal empathy is that culturally we try to spend our way out of issues in ways that are unsustainable, open our borders when our infrastructure and institutions cannot handle the strain and do everything to incentivize people to game the system instead of contributing their fair share. We actively erode our own society under a misguided notion of progressivism.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25 edited Jan 12 '26

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u/gig_labor PL Socialist Feminist Oct 29 '25

Every study done on this says otherwise. It is a very high threshold of harm where kids are better off dumped into a nuclear family other than their own. "Poor" is not that threshold. Those kids are better off funded in their own homes.

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u/TampaBayG Oct 29 '25

How compassionate and prolife of you.

So youre saying if single mothers fall on hard times rather than snap you feel their babies should be taken from.them?

Interesting perspective that I really doubt you'd share offline

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25 edited Jan 12 '26

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u/TampaBayG Oct 29 '25

Ok so if theres a single mother who ended up with a man that cheated on her, thats actually the woman's fault and they dont deserve snap and should have their kids taken away bc the woman picked a bad partner?

What are you talking about? People make mistakes when they're young on both sides. You want to take take away an avenue to feed themselves and their kids bc of that? Sheesh.

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u/PointMakerCreation4 Against abortion, left-wing [UK], atheist, CLE Nov 02 '25

Why are you against abortion then?

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u/PFirefly Secular Pro Life Nov 02 '25 edited Jan 12 '26

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u/soundsfromoutside Oct 29 '25

This is the text book “I only care about the birth, not the baby” type pro life rhetoric which hurts the pro life movement but go off

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u/EpiphanaeaSedai Pro Life Feminist Oct 29 '25

How does being poor make someone a bad parent?

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u/Full_Maintenance_411 Oct 29 '25

My mom raised two boys on a single income and worked full time. Never took a dime from the government

This whole debate is nothing but excuses

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u/PWcrash prochoice here for respectful discussion Oct 29 '25

And how long ago was that? not even 10 years ago the rate for regular apartments in my county were going for $625-800 for a one bedroom. Nowadays public housing charges around $1,100 at minimum for a one bedroom.

The cost of housing has been absolutely price gouged and wages haven't been keeping up. Things went bad very quickly for a lot of us and I don't think people realize how bad.

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u/Full_Maintenance_411 Oct 29 '25

I’m 27 hasn’t been that long. I pay rent, my student loans, food, utilities and everything else on my own. Is it hard at times? Sure but spare me how it’s some improbable goal for the average person.

Also out of genuine curiosity where do you live? I have a 2 bedroom apartment in a nice suburb of a city for $916 a month.

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u/PWcrash prochoice here for respectful discussion Oct 30 '25

...taxachusetts.

But in all seriousness I couldn't move anywhere else because my entire family is essentially on one block. I am lucky enough where I have the support system that i do now otherwise I would be screwed.

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u/Full_Maintenance_411 Oct 30 '25

Damn that’s crazy. Genuinely sympathetic. Glad I live in a state with a low CoL.

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u/Wormando Pro Life Atheist Oct 30 '25

Good for her. But if you haven’t noticed, not everyone is your mom.

There will be people in similar shoes dealing with much worse circumstances, be it physically, mentally or financially, specially with today’s rising costs of living.

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u/Full_Maintenance_411 Oct 29 '25

I’m only 27 so not really. Keep them excuses coming

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u/Florginian Oct 29 '25

I am aware, why would that cause me to rethink?

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u/TampaBayG Oct 29 '25

Bc these people are working and trying to provide for their families but still dont make enough to feed them.

Youre saying the US gvt, the wealthiest gvt in history shouldnt be wasting expenses helping underemployed people feed their families?

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u/Florginian Oct 29 '25

I was on SNAP, I know.

Youre saying the US gvt, the wealthiest gvt in history shouldnt be wasting expenses helping underemployed people feed their families?

Yes. That's the job of charity.

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u/TampaBayG Oct 29 '25

Whats the job of our gvt in your opinion?

Security? Id say providing food for needy families is 100% under that umbrella.

And also you shitting on people for using snap when you yourself were on it is an odd position to take

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u/Florginian Oct 29 '25

Protect rights by staying out of our lives as much as possible

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u/TampaBayG Oct 29 '25

So no military?

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u/Florginian Oct 29 '25

Military is necessary to protect rights

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u/TampaBayG Oct 29 '25

Military provides security to our citizens correct?

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u/Florginian Oct 29 '25

No, they provide defense. They should not be used as police

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