I'm going to add to that last message. I do not see being anti-abortion and opposing welfare as a contradiction. Many people, myself included, see a price of freedom is personal responsibility. So a person believing abortion is wrong, but then also the woman has to deal with it on her own, isn't exactly a contradiction as they will claim that unless it is from rape, the woman made the choice to have unprotected sex or at least the risk of sex even if some contraceptive used - and therefore she should bear the consequences including costs, not other people.
I don't agree with that view point, but such a pro-life stance is not a self contradiction. For example from the opposite direction, I think if the woman does have the child is it her financial and time responsibility as it was her choice - and the man's fully as well, though I do not mean that as an absolute standard. Why should I pay for other people's kids instead of my own?
Interesting opinion.
Most pro-choice women won’t have an abortion, but they see the necessity for abortion being legal for a variety of women’s health risks. And of course should there be significant health issues with varying stages of the yet to be born.
The reason women have for giving birth to an unexpected/unwanted pregnancy, is more common than not, related to their moral beliefs. So now, there are those who have decided women of lesser means, who, because of their moral beliefs won’t abort (remember this includes pro-choice women) are a burden to society for exercising the right to express their moral beliefs - are being “IRRESPONSIBLE”.
Who is the definer of “sexual irresponsibility” of “each individual woman” who has an unexpected/unwanted pregnancy and chooses to go full-term OR have an abortion. Either way it’s damned if the do and damned if the don’t.
To make an impossible to know, negative, stereotypical accusation that women who have an unexpected/unwanted pregnancy, have engaged in “irresponsible sexual conduct”, is frinking shameful and absolutely an ignorant assumption. It is impossible, for the public at large, to know the life circumstances of every individual woman who conceives. We know for a fact that many women conceive while on birth control. Or that their sex partner worn a condom that failed.
By the way, women’s right to have control over their reproductive roles, which includes gestating for 9 months and giving birth OR having an abortion within the current parameters of the law - is based on Constitutional Due Process, “The Right to Privacy”, and Liberty, and self-determination.
The right to privacy is paramount. The right to privacy includes “the right to private beliefs”, which is a First Amendment right.
So condemning women for not aborting because they had sex, which produced an unexpected/unwanted pregnancy, knowing full well that they couldn’t afford to give birth, but believes it’s the moral thing to do, is a hypocritical judgment against women. This is a common criticism from pro-life advocates.
Again, women are stereotypically damned if the give birth because of their moral beliefs or damned if they believe that having an abortion is in their own best interests.
You can disagree that there is a correlation between pro-life ideology and anti-social services based on the stereotypical beliefs that all women who have an unexpected/unwanted pregnancy IS GUILTY of having irresponsible sex...whatever the term means to them as individuals. But I opine that it’s a reality.
