The anti-choice/ pro-life movement may have finally won the battle over women’s reproductive rights. Unwanted babies will be born to women who are unable to care for them and/or are uninterested in having them. Seventy-five percent of the women who have abortions are low income, sixty percent already have children and 55% are not in relationships. So make no mistake, we are talking about bringing more poor children into this country. A true pro-life agenda would recognize the need to support these children and their families. Otherwise, this wave of anti-abortion legislation and court decisions will just create more intergenerational poverty.
A true pro-life agenda would include increasing financial support for child welfare and adoption services to address the inevitable increased need for these services, increasing access to mental health care for children and their families, improving public education services, the creation of family allowances to keep children out of poverty, legislation to limit the availability of guns to reduce danger to our children, and financing to create community centers in all cities and towns that provide an array of social services including sports, health, mental health and child care.
Read Full Article »