Reading through this thread, I saw little reference to rape/incest. In the recently passed Texas law, a 12-year old raped by her stepdad, brother, neighbor has to carry to term. During the pregnancy, she may be murdered in a school shooting because the same folks who write laws preventing her from ending the pregnancy won't address gun laws.
If forced to give birth, she can't afford rent or groceries or health care for her or her child. Is the child stripped from her screaming hands in the birth room and put in foster care?
Should she keep the child, she's not old enough to go to work to earn a living wage. Heck... if she can't continue her education, she may never be able to earn a living wage.
I am NOT a proponent of abortion as "birth control". The discussion must be much more involved than that. And, the current political system where people of wealth with campaigns paid for by evangelical "goody two-shoes" don't want to have that deeper discussion.
If forced to give birth, she can't afford rent or groceries or health care for her or her child. Is the child stripped from her screaming hands in the birth room and put in foster care?
Should she keep the child, she's not old enough to go to work to earn a living wage. Heck... if she can't continue her education, she may never be able to earn a living wage.
I am NOT a proponent of abortion as "birth control". The discussion must be much more involved than that. And, the current political system where people of wealth with campaigns paid for by evangelical "goody two-shoes" don't want to have that deeper discussion.