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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks to all who shared their stories. I don't think that can be easy. Thanks, OP.

I am pro-life.

I do not have strong feelings about the Supreme Court decision other than that it seems, from a legal perspective, reasonable.

I know a good number of people (including myself and one sibling and an adopted niece) who would not be here if our mom had not chosen life. Our mom couldn't really afford us. Her relationship choices were not good. Our grandparents urged her to abort because they believed her struggles as a single mom raising mixed race kids would be too great.

I want to join forces with the pro-choice side because I live in the real world; I hear and reflect on the stories like yours OP and others. But can we find a way to do it in a way (and I think, OP, you did) that allows choice while not elevating abortion as THE choice. I don't speak for any kind of movement, but I do know that 20% of people who go to pregnancy crisis centers (the kind many abortion advocates hate) go on to choose abortion anyway.

I know many people here perhaps hate people like me, think I'm stupid and ignorant, think it's not worth even talking to someone like me. But I just wanted to offer my appreciation of your generosity in sharing difficulty stories and offer my own perspective.[/quote]

The thing that makes it unreasonable is stare decisis, which is what the justices who signed onto the opinion said they supported when they were confirmed. They all said Roe v. Wade was the law of the land and that you can't overturn settled constitutional law just because you want to.

[b]A lot of people who don't like abortion have, rather than trying to restrict abortion access, looked at the reasons people get abortions and addressed those reasons.[/b]
 A huge one is the one you mention: not being able to afford to raise a kid. Parenthood, at a certain stage of life, is like a financial death sentence, and it really doesn't need to be that way.[/quote]

Yup. My Catholic in laws did this. They voted their understanding of pro-life, which was anti-war, pro-labor, pro-refugee, and pro-helping the poor - very Dorothy Day type people. They also opened and ran a shelter for homeless women and their kids, which is still operating. They really lived their beliefs in ways I admire. [/quote]

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