Originally written October 8, 2024, though I believe this issue remains vital in today’s society. https://reproductiverights.org/maps/abortion-laws-by-state/

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MEN want to “force” Women who were Sexually Assaulted to bring that child into the world?  MEN want those Girls to go through the Emotional Pain and Agony of carrying a Baby to Term, being reminded daily for the next NINE months of the Trauma they endured during that Assault?  That young Girl never planned to have a baby, and now she is being forced to not only have that child, but also deal with the  Emotional Turmoil every single day of her life till that baby is born, and beyond?  MEN?  Would you want that for your Daughter? How about your Wife? Your Sister?

Asshole should have left Roe v Wade alone. What was the “point” of overturning it?  He “brags” about it, but what was the point of sending it back to the States? It wasn’t broken!

Bravo! For alienating yourself from Women!

To PUNISH Women? Children? Their Mommy died because she wasn’t allowed an operation to abort a child due to an “Act of God” (miscarriage)? You are a “Scary Person” in today’s society.

If the Government wants to tell Women they have to have that baby, then the Government needs to totally subsidize the cost of raising that child as well. Until you do . . . . you need to STOP telling us what to do with our own bodies!

In the meantime . . . .

Until you can afford to financially raise those kids on your [the Government’s] dime . . . then tell us what to do with our own bodies.

When you [the Government] help to raise those children you so desperately want Women to have . . . 

Cost of:

• Medical
• Food
• Shelter
• Schooling
• Clothing
• Insurance
• Child Care

For the next 22 years . . . .

FACT:  On average, families spend almost a fifth of their annual income on child-related expenses.

Let’s crunch the numbers from my last position as an Account Representative. My annual salary was $52,000. Take out taxes, medical insurance, and retirement, and I was left with $31,200 a year. Now, let’s take a fifth of that original Annual salary: that’s $10,400 spent on raising just one child for the year. Subtract that from my take-home pay, and we are down to $20,800—which is practically poverty level. My mortgage alone ate up three-quarters of my take-home pay. Once you add utilities, food, car gas, home/car insurances, etc, there wasn’t a single penny left at the end of any month.

It’s extremely difficult for a Single Mother to raise children on their own. It’s a statistical fact that a Man and a Woman in the exact same position, the woman’s salary is a mere 82% of the man’s salary [which to me is actually ironic because it’s not Men who are taking care of the financing of having children these days]; the burden falls upon the Women of the world these days. Just another reason why women cannot afford to raise those babies you now want to FORCE us to bring to Term.

• In 2022, women earned 82% as much as men on average, according to the Pew Research Center. This isn’t anything new, as women earned 80% as much as men in 2002.
• In 2023, there were approximately 15.09 million children living with a single mother in the United States, and about 3.05 million children living with a single father. [Mother-to-Father Ratio: There are 494.75% more children living with single mothers than single fathers 20.21% (roughly 5 to 1).]
• As reported by the Center for Children and Families: 40% of all live births in the US are to single mothers. 90% of welfare recipients are single Mothers.

If you want women to have those children, then women’s salaries and benefits need to not only increase, but be given the “Wage Premium” afforded to MEN when they become Dads, rather than decreasing a Woman’s salary in the same position simply for becoming a Mother.

FACT:       From PewResearch.org — https://shorturl.at/i4Ip7

What about Mom’s lives; don’t Mom’s lives matter? How about the women who are already a Mom and the pregnancy isn’t sustainable?  What then?  All her other children lose their Mom because she either died because you disallowed her to have a life saving abortion, or you placed her in jail because she went to another State to have an abortion? Or you killed her for killing her unborn child?  MEN!  Thinking only of themselves and not the true issues facing Women in a still “antiquated male mentality society”.

Sure, easy to make Laws for things you know Absolutely Nothing about.  Have you ever come down from your tower and actually spoken to Women about their concerns regarding abortion? About their reasoning behind needing the laws about abortions on their side, not against them? No? Yeah, I didn’t think so.  Easier to stay in the tower, making rules regarding things you know nothing about because you’re embarrassed to talk to women about womanly issues.

I once had a male gym teacher who didn’t want his all male class to become co-ed simply because he knew he’d be embarrassed when that girl came to him and said she couldn’t participate today because it was “that time of the month”. We know you still remain “in the dark” about women’s issues, so how can you possibly make important rules and laws regarding issues you know absolutely nothing about?

There was a reason Roe v Wade had been on the Law Books for the past 50 years; has nothing to do with your Religion, your Political or Antiquated Views.

It has to do with the Real Lives of Women who’d prefer to make their own decisions about having or not having children, rather than being forced to have a child they don’t want and cannot afford.  Sure, easy for the Daddies of those children to walk away and leave the burden of raising those children to the Moms.

Men? Come down from your towers. Learn the true reason(s) women need to have their own say about their own bodies and about their families.

How many Couples decide not to have any more children simply because they cannot afford to?

Guess what Law Makers?

Same scenario . . .  only now you are forcing women into having those children they simply cannot afford, and, based upon statistics, 9 out of 10 will end up on Welfare.  How about we let Women decide for themselves whether they want and can afford that child? I find it hard to believe you think Women cannot make those decisions on their own.  Really?  Women have been running the world in the background of every Man’s life for centuries (wives, secretaries, personal assistants). MEN would be NOTHING sans the WOMEN in their lives!!! Truly, How many people would come off Welfare if they weren’t forced to have a child they simply just couldn’t afford?

Back in the Day (1900’s), Men (Real Men, Gentlemen) took financial care of children, but your antiquated ways just don’t gel in today’s society. It’s Women who are taking financial care of children today, and yet our salaries remain 12- 20% below a man’s.

There should be no pay differential between a woman and a man’s salary [in the same position] in today’s society.

FACT: More recent info at: Opinion: Why don’t women make as much as men? Economist Claudia Goldin has some Nobel Prize-winning answers – Los Angeles Times

You are not looking at the big picture, Mr. Politicians . . . .

You think you are doing something wonderful for babies; you are incorrect in your assumptions.  Babies born into poverty . .  . you think you’re doing them a favor?  Please, please, please, come down from your tower and deal with the true issues facing American Women today. 

PS: What gives YOU the Right? . . . as a Man . . . .

. . . . to tell ME what to do with MY OWN BODY?

Opinion Editorial

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