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Farmer-Rick

(11,532 posts)
7. Yup a lot of women I have known have had abortions
Wed Sep 18, 2024, 09:05 AM
Sep 2024

Many are happily married with grown children and full careers now.

Some even agree it was the best decision they have made in life. It allowed them to grow up and have successful careers. Something you could never do in the 70s and 80s as a single mother.

I have noticed that since abortion became legal and fairly common, it took a lot of stigma and shame away from being an unwed mother. No longer do we have to send girls off to Catholic slave labor camps to give birth secretly. No longer do girls have to give up their babies to nuns who sell them off to rich parents.

Have you noticed that as the religiously insane get their misogynist and superstitious laws and regulations passed, more and more stigma is being put on the heads of unwed mothers? Single mothers are being ostracized again.

In many ways legal and safe abortions have greatly improved the lives of our mothers, sisters and daughters. Now we need to give the same opportunities to our granddaughters.

And only Kamala and Walz offer that opportunity.

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about that same time my dtrs 15 yr old friend confided in me she was pregnant.......my husband and i samnsara Sep 2024 #1
I can imagine how much it meant to her Easterncedar Sep 2024 #3
Good sister Easterncedar Sep 2024 #2
For some reason, I assumed no_hypocrisy was being a good brother. :-) TheRickles Sep 2024 #8
Showing my sister bias, I guess! Easterncedar Sep 2024 #15
Wonderful & loving sister Quakerfriend Sep 2024 #4
The family scapegoat is always the helper. Clouds Passing Sep 2024 #5
indeed. AllaN01Bear Sep 2024 #6
Yup a lot of women I have known have had abortions Farmer-Rick Sep 2024 #7
The abortion issue has always had basic aspects: victims, heroes and villains. jaxexpat Sep 2024 #16
Strong research it has helped to gradually lower crime rates IbogaProject Sep 2024 #17
Thank you Wild blueberry Sep 2024 #9
I've known several women who had abortions . . . SarcasticSatyr Sep 2024 #10
About 70/71 my sister (19/20) became pregnant through a date rape. Pre Roe... ms liberty Sep 2024 #11
I wonder if she regrets it because of religious indoctrination rainin Sep 2024 #13
No, she regretted it because she always wanted kids, even at that age then. ms liberty Sep 2024 #14
In 82 my best friend in High School got pregnant. MLAA Sep 2024 #12
Makes me wonder about all these men who were part of the problem-never a word about them Stargazer99 Sep 2024 #18
Did i write this? BayouBlue53 Oct 24 #19
Welcome to DU radical noodle Oct 24 #20
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