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Lesa Dixon-Gray's avatar

My job in the US was to assist pregnant women to get prenatal care (and, of course, health insurance). I very rarely saw women wanting an abortion. Sadly, the exception was because of lack of health insurance. In the US having a baby is expensive - between $30,000 - $50,000. If you don’t have good (or any) health insurance, and are not poor enough for Medicaid (meaning you have a minimum wage job), having a baby becomes a financial hardship. I did see cases with unplanned pregnancies, where upon finding out the costs, the women decided to seek an abortion. Our US society damns women if the do, and damns them if they don’t. If Texas, and other States, want to ban abortion, the least they could do is to support prenatal care and labor and delivery. But that won’t happen.

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Caroline McVitty's avatar

10 weeks is better than 6 weeks - but not by much. But if you are in Europe, you don't have to travel hundreds of miles to seek a safe abortion. What continues to gall me is that with all the advancements in education, literacy, etc. that women are still second class citizens. As long as men rule, we will always be in that Biblical position - be obedient to your husband (father, uncle, minister, male teacher).

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