My former sister-in-law used to read these anti-choice bedtime stories that would tell about this kid who grows up to win the medal in this or that, discover the cure for cancer or diabetes or whatever...and they always ended, "but this did not happen because he was aborted."
Anyway...
These stories present abortion as costing the world x, y, and z. But no one ever considers the children who are not born because there was no abortion and that they might accomplish because they are welcome and wanted.
These stories present abortion as costing the world x, y, and z. But no one ever considers the children who are not born because there was no abortion and that they might accomplish because they are welcome and wanted.
Considering her mother, it's not surprising my niece carried her rapist's baby to term & raised him. She should not have. She always expected him to be a bad boy and so he was. He's in prison now for some burglary in pursuit of money for drugs.
But if my niece had an abortion, she might have had a child with her husband sooner, a welcome child who grew up without the expectation of becoming a criminal in some way, one who doesn't use drugs to medicate the pain of an awful mother.
I mean, I care about my great-nephew. I send him books in prison, but his life has been painful. He grew up in a small town (276 people) where everyone knew his father was a rapist. Every mischief he got into was confirmation that he was bad from birth
Just the ordinary mischief kids get into was read as a sign he would go wrong. Yes, I know it's ignorant. People are ignorant. He had no leeway. He was inadequately loved. Always suspect.
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