Letters to the Editor
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Why?
"It's hard to imagine someone who can't afford a bus trip taking responsibility for a new life -- especially when she doesn't want to. Yet Tammy, who reportedly had her baby a few weeks ago, will no doubt find a way. Anti-choice activists can now chalk one more victory up to the passage and enforcement of Mississippi's latest abortion restriction -- even if, for Tammy, it means defeat."
I always find it ironic that the people who end up being so avidly anti-choice ("pro-life") are the ones who are also against programs that might help these poor mothers raise these children. Lawmakers are forcing these women to bear these unplanned for children, then to make matters worse, they do nothing to help the mothers support the children.
These are also the same lawmakers and activists who don't want sex ed in school and who don't want contraception to be available to teenagers. Many of them are also for the death penalty and for the war, a "pro-life" contradiction I have never understood.
If these lawmakers were truly thinking of the best interests of the mother and child and believe in the sanctity of human life they would help these women to raise their children, rather than denying them the choice to bear them.
Why do they put the lives of the unborn ahead of the lives of these poor, scared, desperate women?