This is something I’ve been thinking about, how much is restricting or outlawing abortion going to contribute to child abuse and child neglect? If someone doesn’t even fucking want to be a parent in the first place and only goes through with having a child because of no access to contraceptives or abortion, someone who’s not ready emotionally or mentally to be a parent, how likely is it that they’re going to be resentful about being a parent, and take out that resentment on the kid?
Also, if you think someone should be denied access to abortion from not using contraceptives, or not using them properly, and “that’s what they get for being irresponsible” (how fucked up it is to use children as a punishment for irresponsibility aside) why would you want them to have the responsibility of raising and caring for a child then? Raising a child is a fuuuuuck ton of responsibility, so if not using proper contraceptives makes them too irresponsible for an abortion then why the fuck should the alternative be the very demanding and full of responsibilities job of parenting? Fuck, even pregnancy takes a lot of responsibility cus you really gotta watch what you eat, drink, and do, while making sure you’re regularly going to the doctor for checkups.
As the child of someone who only had them because of that reason? This is fucking important. No one should be forced into having a child they don’t want: not least of all because they’re going to treat that child like shit.
Even if they don’t do so *openly*, they’re seething with resentment a lot of the time because their lives were “ruined” – and the child can absolutely fucking tell.
[ID: tweet from Justice for Sandra Bland @likeokaysure on 17/5/2019:
What kind of mothering do you expect from women that gave birth only because they were denied access to abortions? End ID.]





















