OPINION: 'Indeed, it takes a village to raise children, and that village needs to include the government,' writes Star contributor Renée Schafer Horton.
I’ve held a friend’s hand as she recalled the story of her early abortion and expressed relief that she wouldn’t be tied to her volatile, underemployed, erratic boyfriend forever because of a child. And even though I’m anti-abortion, I, too, was grateful she wasn’t trapped with that man.
People are also reading… I’ve paid a single mom’s utility bills and rent, donated hundreds of dollars to a childcare scholarship fund in one of Tucson’s poorest neighborhoods, contributed to the purchase of an ultrasound machine at a local crisis pregnancy center and helped a distraught, exhausted, crying mom and her screaming infant in the grocery store while chastising those around us who stood staring instead of helping.
These memories have flooded me lately, following the leak of a Supreme Court draft ruling pointing to the likely abolition of Roe v. Wade, the nearly 50-year-old Court ruling guaranteeing a federal right to abortion up to 24 weeks gestation.
According to women — and it’s always women — who work in crisis pregnancy centers and in under-served communities, abortion isn’t caused by legal access.
Those on the far left want abortion with zero restrictions, blindly ignoring that the difference between an abortion at 25 weeks and infanticide is simply the location of the body being killed. The worst of them do “performance art” outside Catholic churches where they pull dolls out of their shirts, smash them on the ground and say, “I’m killing my baby!”
The Centers for Disease Control reports that nearly 60% of all abortions are obtained by women who already have at least one child, pointing to the truth that poverty often plays an outsized role in these decisions. These women understand what it takes to raise a child in the Land of the Poor and know quite well, thank you very much, that they can’t support another — even with three years of free diapers from the local crisis pregnancy center.
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