Seaholm+-+Gender+Welfare

Contention One: Unequal Protection

The Federal government currently controls social service spending via the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families bill, also known as TANF. Paz-Fuchs, ’08 (Amir, Senior Lecturer at Ono Academic College, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Lexis Academic)

And yet, significant elements of TANF … undermined by their unique dissimilarities.

This legislation restricts social services to many poor mothers based on their marital and reproductive choices, reinforcing dominant gendered and racial hierarchies. Mink, ’02 (Gwendolyn, professor of women's studies at Smith College, The Good Society, Project Muse)

Let me turn now to the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families … for impoverishing unmarried mothers' citizenship.

These gendered structures threaten the very basis of women’s rights by questioning their ability to make choices about their own lives. Mink, ’02 (Gwendolyn, professor of women's studies at Smith College, The Good Society, Project Muse)

The seeming irresistibility of … than their poverty, to see how.

The impact is not limited to women forced out of social services – government regulation is a slippery slope to complete destruction of women’s rights. Abramovitz, 2000 (Mimi, Professor of Social Work at Hunter College, Democratic Left, January 1, Proquest)

Putting women on welfare to work … viewed as "not playing by the rules."

The ultimate impact is extinction – the dysfunctionality of patriarchy guarantees continued violence, war, and environmental destruction. Warren and Cady, ’94 (Karen and Duane, Professors of Philosophy at Macalester College & Hamline University, Hypatia, Spring, Proquest)

The notion of patriarchy as a socially … connections in regional, national, and global contexts.

Independently, gendered restrictions are a new form of eugenics – they deny poor women critical choices and human rights. Smith, ’07 (Anna Marie, Professor of Government at Cornell, Welfare Reform & Sexual Regulation, p.216-217)

In sum, the welfare policies that indirectly … poor women's fundamental human rights.

This is the ultimate act of commodification – it strips participants of their human value and turns them into tokens of financial exchange. Smith, ’07 (Anna Marie, Professor of Government at Cornell, Welfare Reform & Sexual Regulation, p. 63-64)

The depersonalizing effects of commodification … yield to its social control tactics.

This thinking creates the conditions to replicate the Holocaust. O’Mathuna, ’06 (Donal, Lecturer in Health Care Ethics at Dublin City University, BMC Med Ethics, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?pmid=16536874)

The 60th anniversary of the liberation of … understanding on the part of anyone" [1].

Plan: The United States Supreme Court should rule that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits Temporary Assistance for Needy Families from restricting social services based on marital or reproductive choices.

Contention Two: Answering the Call

The plan is consistent with prior Supreme Court precedent – the Loving decision proves that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits these gendered restrictions. Parker, ’09 (Aly, JD Candidate at the University of Southern California, Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice, Spring, Lexis Academic)

The government cannot coerce individuals … Do you feel free to not marry?

Plan substantially increases social services – current restrictions decrease participation. Smith, ’07 (Anna Marie, Professor of Government at Cornell, Welfare Reform & Sexual Regulation, p.2-3)

If we look closer at the actual structure of welfare … after being named as the payer in her case.

Government welfare policy is the key site of contestation against patriarchy. Johnson et al, ’07 (Cathy Marie, Professor of Political Science at Williams College, Georgia Duerst-Lahti, Professor of Political Science at Beloit College, and Noelle Horton, Professor of Political Science and IR at the University of San Diego, Creating Gender: The Sexual Politics of Welfare Policy, pp.19-20)

Government is central to creating gender … gender constructs they create in the process.

The symbol of federal restrictions is key – it creates an idealized vision of family that influences public discourse. Cherlin, ’03 (Andrew J., Professor of Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University, Contexts, Fall, pp.28-29)

Despite the attention paid to social science research, … some of the children they intend to help.

Abdication of federal responsibility fractures movements committed to gender and racial equality – only the plan solves broader societal discrimination. Ernst, ’08 (Rose, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Seattle University, The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Winter, Lexis Academic)

2006 marked the tenth anniversary of … of a movement when it is most needed.

Contention Three: Our Framework for Evaluating Impacts

Our impact framework is to prioritize the dismantling of patriarchy in the face of the negative’s attempt to maintain the status quo.

This change in calculus is critical to open the door to new structures and avoid extinction. French, ’92 (Marilyn, PhD from Harvard, Beyond Power: On Women, Men, and Morals, pp.494-5)

Just as our present morality offers us …and in biology and ecology.

Focusing on patriarchy is the best strategy – helps create action against war and all forms of domination Warren and Cady, ’94 (Karen and Duane, Professors of Philosophy at Macalester College & Hamline University, Hypatia, Spring, Proquest)

Of special interest to feminist philosophers … laced throughout the remainder of the paper.)