I’m an advocate of men and the government staying out of my bedroom and my reproductive choices. Unless you are paying my mortgage, utilities and food bill, you have no say so in how many births or abortions I have. WHOM-SO-EVER, once you get on the public rolls, all that ‘ish goes out the window. Would love to have had more kids, but after leaving my husband, I knew I couldn’t afford it. How dare you CONTINUE to have kids that you can’t afford! I TOOK PRECAUTIONS to make sure there were no more kids (both during & after my marriage) that someone other than me would be required to support. I’m appalled at women like Adams that pro-create at will and expect someone else to pick up the tab. I feel sorry for those kids.
Having said that, I believe access to abortions is a choice in as much as Viagra is. Like the old saying goes, “when Men can get pregnant, then talk to me about what options are available”…until then, STFU. If you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have sex…EVER – after all, that’s the ONLY surefire method of preventing a pregnancy (wanted or not). If you choose to have sex, know that pregnancy is a possibility. You make your choice on whether or not to keep it and I’ll make mine. I don’t tell you how to live your life, please don’t tell me how to live mine. BUT, if you wanna keep having kids you can’t afford and you want public assistance, rest assured that me and my tax dollars DESERVE to be all up in your business.
I am left to wonder where the discussion is about the male portion of the equation. Females do not get pregnant alone. Reproductive sex is a male-female equation…we need to be sure and include male responsibility in all discussions regarding pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting.
Honey, if you know where the Planned Parenthood is when it’s time for an abortion, then you know where you could have gotten birth control in the first place. Hint: Same damn place!
I pity the woman’s situation. But I have no idea what society wants me to do as a woman. Outside of major cities you know how difficult it is to get to a planned parenthood clinic? And with the new legislation that they’re trying to push, planned parenthood won’t get government funding in many states. So goodbye to my PAP and birth control provider.
What about insurance? Oh right. Well my minimum wage job doesn’t pay me enough to afford that so free clinics that I’m increasingly getting limited access to are my only option. And Lord knows most of the people criticizing her for being on the welfare role are the same people that support a potential employer not hiring her and not paying a living wage or benefits for all her children.
Get a better job? Okay I’ll go to college to get a profession with a better salary, but I still needs my basic needs provided for while I do it, so that doesn’t solve the problem. Especially if your parents are poor and they can’t help you out financially.
And um, don’t all those kids have Daddies? Where are those men at? She didn’t have those twelve children alone.
And don’t criticize someone for not having birth control. The one I’m on causes migraines and depression. Not to mention different races of women responses to it and weight gain and hair loss ( all of which I’ve experienced) and the worse things like blood clots. Condoms? Men don’t like using them. They also don’t like supporting children, paradoxically. And if they’re supporting you, in any way guess who determines whether or not a condom is used?
But it’s always the woman’s fault. It’s not the fact that POC women are in a shitty position in general.
I’m an advocate of men and the government staying out of my bedroom and my reproductive choices. Unless you are paying my mortgage, utilities and food bill, you have no say so in how many births or abortions I have. WHOM-SO-EVER, once you get on the public rolls, all that ‘ish goes out the window. Would love to have had more kids, but after leaving my husband, I knew I couldn’t afford it. How dare you CONTINUE to have kids that you can’t afford! I TOOK PRECAUTIONS to make sure there were no more kids (both during & after my marriage) that someone other than me would be required to support. I’m appalled at women like Adams that pro-create at will and expect someone else to pick up the tab. I feel sorry for those kids.
Having said that, I believe access to abortions is a choice in as much as Viagra is. Like the old saying goes, “when Men can get pregnant, then talk to me about what options are available”…until then, STFU. If you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have sex…EVER – after all, that’s the ONLY surefire method of preventing a pregnancy (wanted or not). If you choose to have sex, know that pregnancy is a possibility. You make your choice on whether or not to keep it and I’ll make mine. I don’t tell you how to live your life, please don’t tell me how to live mine. BUT, if you wanna keep having kids you can’t afford and you want public assistance, rest assured that me and my tax dollars DESERVE to be all up in your business.
Sorry, stepping off my soap box now….
I am left to wonder where the discussion is about the male portion of the equation. Females do not get pregnant alone. Reproductive sex is a male-female equation…we need to be sure and include male responsibility in all discussions regarding pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting.
Honey, if you know where the Planned Parenthood is when it’s time for an abortion, then you know where you could have gotten birth control in the first place. Hint: Same damn place!
I pity the woman’s situation. But I have no idea what society wants me to do as a woman. Outside of major cities you know how difficult it is to get to a planned parenthood clinic? And with the new legislation that they’re trying to push, planned parenthood won’t get government funding in many states. So goodbye to my PAP and birth control provider.
What about insurance? Oh right. Well my minimum wage job doesn’t pay me enough to afford that so free clinics that I’m increasingly getting limited access to are my only option. And Lord knows most of the people criticizing her for being on the welfare role are the same people that support a potential employer not hiring her and not paying a living wage or benefits for all her children.
Get a better job? Okay I’ll go to college to get a profession with a better salary, but I still needs my basic needs provided for while I do it, so that doesn’t solve the problem. Especially if your parents are poor and they can’t help you out financially.
And um, don’t all those kids have Daddies? Where are those men at? She didn’t have those twelve children alone.
And don’t criticize someone for not having birth control. The one I’m on causes migraines and depression. Not to mention different races of women responses to it and weight gain and hair loss ( all of which I’ve experienced) and the worse things like blood clots. Condoms? Men don’t like using them. They also don’t like supporting children, paradoxically. And if they’re supporting you, in any way guess who determines whether or not a condom is used?
But it’s always the woman’s fault. It’s not the fact that POC women are in a shitty position in general.