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Thank you, AllWoman. Your story is an important one and I hope it helps open some eyes.
I figured I'd throw in my $.02, here.
I am pro-choice. I am also the product of a teenage pregnancy (my mom was 16, my father was 17). My father wanted my mom to have an abortion and he said he would have no part of raising me, but she refused. She was terrified about what would happen, and didn't even have the courage to tell her mother until she was 6 months along, but she knew that she wanted to keep me. Luckily, my grandmother was very supportive and things worked out for the best. I know that life has not been very easy for my mom, and I know that she never regrets having me, but I also know that she probably would have been better off not being a mother at 16. Now, everytime I joke about being an "accident," she tells me that although I was a surprise, that I should never feel that I was unwanted. I know this is true, because she was able to choose to have me, and it wasn't a decision that was forced on her.
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