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Originally posted by MereMere21
This isn't a perfect world though and most (not all) single women that do keep their babies without the father's help end up on gov't assistance and never finish their education.
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Of the many many single mothers I know (and am related to), NONE of them received government assistance at all during their pregnancies or afterwards. The vast majority of them were professional women before their pregnancies (all of whom were able to hire nannies), had understanding parents who were willing and able to take care of their grandchildren, had amazing employers who were cool with long maternity leaves and milk breaks--all of them thrived and succeeded with little or no help from the fathers. Your use of the word "most" is a vast overgeneralization, and insulting to those single mothers who don't want to be lumped in with the mythical Reagan-era "welfare queen." I do understand and agree with what you've said throughout this thread (and most others here on GC), but that statement just rubbed me the wrong way.
I think what the anti-choice people have to understand is that it's not a perfect world. Boyfriends and husbands beat, cheat, and leave. Condoms break. Personal biochemistries don't work well with the Pill. Girls trust their boyfriends when they tell them that they don't need condoms. Women get pregnant and are either so scared or so uneducated about the way that their bodies work that they literally go into denial about their pregnancies.
I don't like abortion--none of us here do. I've seen the ultrasounds of what happens during a D&C/vacuum aspiration procedure. I know what happens during a late-term abortion. It's a terrible and barbaric thing, but a necessary evil. Women have been aborting themselves since the beginning of times--and they will continue to. So,
I will fight and die for women to be able to take care of what is a personal matter as safely as possible. Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.