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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about supporting mothers who parent their own children? Or does that not count?[/quote]  Of course we should support moms parenting their own children.  What exactly do you mean?  Is there anyone who doesn't see this as an important endeavor?[/quote]

Probably all the politicians and voters who supported cuts to food stamps, unemployment checks, job-training programs, Head Start, who go about bashing "welfare queens," who don't support mandating maternity leave, who don't believe in making birth control available to those who need it,  who resist attempts to make health care more widely available to the population, who don't fight for better, cheaper child care, who otherwise support policies that help wealthy Americans while throwing the rug out beneath the feet of struggling parents.  That's who, by their actions rather than by what they say, don't see supporting mothers who parent their own children as an important endeavor.  Because all these things make it more difficult for mothers (and fathers) who are raising children in poverty or near poverty.
I hear what all of you are saying, and I understand your point.  However, in my experience, the "pro-life" people that I know do care about all those things you listed above.  Not all pro-lifers are the crazy fools like you describe above.  There are a large number in the middle-ground, too.  I wish birth control was readily available to anyone who wants it, regardless of age.  Many of us want to reduce the number of abortions, but keep access to them open to those who need (or want) them.  It's not as black and white and you would like to believe.  It makes it easier for you to demonize "pro-lifers" so that you can support your argument, but that doesn't make it true.

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