https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wel...ck/story?id=73024719


A new initiative will help 150 mothers starting in 2021.

Pregnant Black and Pacific Islander women in San Francisco will get a $1,000 monthly supplement during and after their pregnancy in a first of its kind initiative meant to help improve health outcomes for both the mom and the baby.

Starting next year, 150 women will receive the supplement for the duration of their pregnancy and the first six month of their baby's life. The new initiative, called the Abundant Birth Project, has the goal of eventually providing the supplement to women for up to two years after pregnancy.

Sweet racist policy there. Good looking out SF! If you're 1/2 black or half PI do you get $500?

Since it's SF if Asian or White women identify as black they will also get this right. I mean that's how they do things in SF.

SF is very wealthy, high taxes, high income, high cost of living, $1K a month won't rent a box in the Tenderloin...

I guess I was raised differently.
Having kids is expensive. If you can't afford the bills,
don't have them.

But not Latina mothers?

Sorry, I meant "LatinX people who menstruate". It is SF, after all.

And the plantation expands...

While well intentioned, that $1k is merely a drop in the bucket given the overwhelming high costs of living in the city; that said, there's a very small number of Blacks and Pacific Islanders living in SF to begin with. Nevertheless, this program is more along the lines of encouraging irresponsible parenting and reliance of govt assistance. How about investing that money into things that are more realistic and actionable like....birth control, family education, financial literacy, adult civics and economics etc.

If they were really wanted to see what kind of impact this study would have, they'd have tried it in a smaller community such as Sacramento or, Stockton, where that assistance would be more impactful. Where's the money for this coming from:
https://www.sfgate.com/news/ar...program-15566923.php

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The Abundant Birth Project received an initial grant from the Hellman Foundation and has since gone on to also receive $1.1 million from Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall campaign (Twitter), $200,000 from Genentech, and $200,000 from the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Additional funders include California Preterm Birth Initiative at UCSF, WKKF (Kellogg Foundation), San Francisco Health Plan, Tipping Point, Economic Security Project, the Walter & Elise Haas Fund (Levi's), San Francisco Foundation (FB cofounder Chris Hughes) and Friedman Family Foundation (Milton Friedman).

I can't fathom the type of person who wakes up in the morning and decides this is the way to spend their money.

Oh wait... It's not Their money.

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San Francisco to give $1,000 monthly stipend to pregnant Black, Pacific Islander women

I predict a sharp uptick in births about 9 months from now.

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I'm off to buy shoe polish & a pillow.

Just typical lefty BS. This is just more encouragement to run around popping out babies for bucks and the taxpayers foot the bill.

“ Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!". Nikita Khrushchev

I can still see the man pounding the podium with his shoe and hollearring.

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Originally posted by comet24:
Since it's SF if Asian or White women identify as black they will also get this right. I mean that's how they do things in SF.

Son of a...you beat me to it.

I feel like a pregnant Pacific Islander. Where's my check?

I identify as a black Pacific islander woman, where's my money you white devils.

And anyone who believes that mommy is going to spend that $1000 a month on the health of her and/or the child stand on your head.....

All valid comments.

An expectant white mother needs financial help, but she doesn't qualify because she is the wrong color?? And San Francisco does not consider that racist?? A curious question. If the expectant mother is having twins, do they double the amount of the check?

Their choices of lifestyle, drugs/alcohol, personal health priorities, have no influence in the well being of the newborn??

In volunteer work, I was asked to assist people to get off welfare. On the whole, those I "assisted" didn't want to get off welfare, they wanted more $$. Most likely this policy will only encourage such to make choices that will qualify for more $$. It will make the problem worse, not better. And the typical gov't pattern is to ignore/deny that reality.

Any bets that in six months the numbers will be notably higher than the 150 they mention? I might ask, with 150 people each getting $1K per month, what is the administrative/overhead/bureaucracy cost above that $150K per month?? And how big is San Francisco's spending deficit??

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. . . I identify as a black Pacific islander woman . . .

Maybe you should get $2K per month.

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Originally posted by RichardC:

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Originally posted by egregore:

I predict a sharp uptick in births about 9 months from now.

And, I predict a sharp uptick in cocaine-exposed pregnancies and birth defects about nine months from now.

"Most women who are addicted to cocaine are of childbearing age. Estimates suggest that about 5 percent of pregnant women use one or more addictive substances, and there are around 750,000 cocaine-exposed pregnancies every year. "


https://www.drugabuse.gov/publ...maternal-cocaine-use



"Babies born to mothers who use cocaine during pregnancy are often prematurely delivered, have low birth weights and smaller head circumferences, and are shorter in length than babies born to mothers who do not use cocaine. ...

Using sophisticated technologies, scientists are now finding that exposure to cocaine during fetal development may lead to subtle, yet significant, later deficits in some children. These include behavior problems (e.g., difficulties with self-regulation) and deficits in some aspects of cognitive performance, information processing, and sustained attention to tasks—abilities that are important for the realization of a child’s full potential. Some deficits persist into the later years, with prenatally exposed adolescents showing increased risk for subtle problems with language and memory. Brain scans in teens suggests that at-rest functioning of some brain regions—including areas involved in attention, planning, and language—may differ from that of non-exposed peers."

Doling out benefits based on race? This wouldn’t survive a fourteenth amendment equal protection challenge. What an irresponsible waste of money to create a program like this.