Here are questions by which anti-choice people can determine if they are serious about facing the practical consequences of their beliefs:
Are they willing to pay more taxes, community bonds and school levies to cover the educational needs, the health needs and societal expenses that come with an increase in the nation’s birth rate?
Given this country’s current drug epidemic, do they believe that a drug- or alcohol-poisoned fetus should be brought to term?
Are they willing to adopt these children, who are often disabled emotionally and cognitively for life?
Are they willing to mentor children from homes in which both parents are working and therefore are unable to support their children’s education?
Do they know — and do they care — that the state of Texas doubled its rate of maternity-related deaths, from 18 percent to 35 percent, between 2010 and 2014, according to the September 2016 journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, the same time period when the state was closing down women’s clinics?
This mortality rate is the highest in the developed world, according to the article.
If anti-choice people answered no to the above questions, they are not pro-life; they are pro-forced childbirth and callous about the suffering of unwanted or neglected children and are enabling the death of women.
Judith Parker,
Sequim