The Millennial View: GOP plan is to help the poor get poorer

[...] reduce poor women’s access to the reproductive services they need to prevent unintended pregnancies, so they have less control over when, and with whom, they have children. [...] make it harder for any unexpectedly expecting women to have abortions. [...] make the adoption process more expensive, reducing incentives for other families to adopt the babies resulting from these unplanned pregnancies. [...] cut the services these involuntarily growing low-income families rely on to help support and care for their children, and to move up in the world. In its analysis of the health care bill, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that about 15 percent of people who live in areas without other clinics or medical practitioners serving low-income populations would lose access to care — leading to more unintended pregnancies. [...] consider that at the state level, Republican officials have been aggressively curbing access to abortion by banning the procedure after 20 weeks, imposing impossible-to-meet regulatory and licensing requirements on providers, and implementing waiting periods. In any case, whatever Republicans’ intentions, the elimination of this tax credit would mean that at least on the margin, women who became pregnant accidentally would have fewer options. Trump’s budget would dramatically slash the social safety net, especially services for poor families. [...] it would decimate many of the programs that low-income parents and children rely on to climb out of poverty, including job training, college assistance and community banking. [...] the cumulative effect of Republicans’ family policies: force poor people to have more children than they want or believe they can afford, then tell them and their children that they’re on their own.