re: [W:628]"The hardest decision of my life: to end a pregnancy because I had no paid leave"
The best way to reduce abortion is for a woman not to get pregnant. You see, weaver2, it is this minor thing that many in America have forgotten about and/or have not been taught about either by their parents or the socialistic public skools. It might sound like a minor thing to a leftist/socialist/Marxist. It is called personal responsibility.
You see, a woman doesn't just become pregnant. You may be too young to know this, but babies aren't implanted by storks or some magic trick. There is something a woman has to do (Unless she is Mother Mary) to become pregnant. Some of your school friends could tell you what that is. If she doesn't engage in that "thing" it is a certainty she will NOT have a bay. There are other ways to weaver2. There are measures the woman can take to never become pregnant because of modern medicine and the invention of rubber. Those things are super cheap too. Less than a cell phone bill.
You want to talk about responsibility. Great topic. The anti-abortion movement advocates that a child be born from every pregnancy, whether that child can be supported or not, whether the family wanted it or not, whether the addition of an unwanted baby to an unstable family situation will end in the child being abused and sent to foster care or not, whether that child will almost certainly end up dropping out of school, or on welfare or in jail or on drugs or dealing drugs or homeless or alcoholic you don't care. Anti-abortion advocates just want to make sure women get retribution and punishment.
An unwanted child is almost always costs society money and trouble. Never mind that the child's life is for himself/herself chaotic, unloving, insecure and poor. I suggest you read the statistics is you don't believe me. Forcing this child to be born in spite of the fact that the woman said she and her family could not support a child, is not just irresponsible it is a soulless and cruel way of carrying out the anti-abortion agenda. Anti-abortion is hands down the most irresponsible thing society can do.
Anti-abortion isn't just irresponsible it's ignorant and the people that support it are mostly old conservative males who have a deep and abiding need to punish young women especially if there is evidence that they have been having sex. Why else are they calling for every pregnancy to end with a birth, when they know that child will almost certainly end up raising their taxes if it is not to punish women.
They are not saving innocent unborn babies. If that really was their goal they would be supporting all the programs that reduce unplanned pregnancies and abortions. They don't, in fact they support just the opposite programs, abstinence only sex-ed, closing PP, shooting abortion providers, screaming at women going into clinics, banning insurance that covers contraceptive that a woman controls, cutting family aid, refusing to raise the minimum wage.
The only goal is making a woman produce a child. There is no justification for forced birth. It's irresponsible.
51% of all women that get abortions were using birth control when they got pregnant. 16% of women getting abortions are women coming from countries that had no legal access to contraceptive that women have control over. 3% of the women are getting late abortions abortions because of the risk of death, theirs or the fetuses. 2% thought they were post menopausal and conceived. 12% were teens and yes they are immature, irresponsible and probably did have honest, science based, intelligent sex-ed. But most women are responsible and using contraceptives. It's a measure of your disrespect for women that you posted the drivel above.
