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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What we do with the explosion of special needs kids?

There's no money or time for them as it is.[/quote]

That’s because the average age of the mother at childbirth is rising. Mother Nature doesn’t care that you can’t afford kids yet; the best time, biologically, to have a kid is between the ages of 17 and 24. But obviously that’s very difficult to do in 2022.[/quote]
OP here.

This forced birther has unwittingly tipped their hand. No, biologically, being a teenager is not the best time to have a baby, ever. The girl’s/woman’s body is still developing and her brain and emotions are still developing, too. This “between the ages of 17 and 24” is sexist and misogynist nonsense, the kind of crap MRA men use to try and cow women with lower self esteem into having a baby with them (and being yoked to them for life).

And despite what people like pp say, younger women are still the ones having the most babies, and they’re the ones having the most babies with special needs (and less money to deal with it).

Women get to decide what kind of challenges they want to accept as a mother. Since Down Syndrome is the best known and everyone wants to pretend that everything is all rosy for people with Down Syndrome because they’ve only seen the high functioning and healthy people with it, it’s not. People with Down Syndrome are on a continuum, some of whom will lead fairly straightforward, healthy, happy lives but even they usually need a few surgeries to correct various problems. Tell us again, forced birthers, where you come down on nationalized healthcare that might make it possible for woman who [i]would[/i] carry such a pregnancy to term if she could afford the complicated healthcare her child would require, but can’t in good conscience do so when she knows she wouldn’t be able to afford the heart surgeries many high functioning babies with Downs need.

This all comes down to forced birthers hating women and wanting to punish them. No birth control. No choice in continuing a pregnancy. No say if a pregnancy kills you. No say in having a baby who bankrupt your family and destroy your marriage. There’s no kindness here, and beyond lip service, there’s no help for the disabled community among the forced birthers, either. You guys just hate women.[/quote]

PP here that you responded to. I actually am pro-choice.

But, anecdotally (I’m from a small, poor area) the women I know who had children very young at 16-22 had almost painless pregnancies and births. Fertility wasn’t an issue.

What I meant to say was that people that young conceive so easily for biological reasons that one small mistake can leave them pregnant.  [/quote]

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