My Pro-choice friends...come to Texas Monthly and fight the stupid

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.texasmonthly.com/stand-desk/and-bum-steer-year



Re: wendy Davis as winning the bum steer award. We are having a lively abortion debate...essentially women against men. I need some men and women to have my back with facts

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. I am kicking some dumbshit rightwing ass for you

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Fact: unwanted children often abused and neglected, often fail to bond with mother

https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/2722895.html

"Of 1,327 children younger than two in 1986 whose mothers were participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 61% were wanted, 34% were mistimed and 5% were unwanted. Planning status is associated with the level of developmental resources the child receives at home: At ages one and older, mistimed and unwanted children score significantly lower on a scale measuring opportunity for skill development and on a scale measuring nonauthoritarian parenting style than their wanted peers; by preschool age, they also have significantly less-positive relationships with their mothers. Measures of the direct effects of planning status on development also indicate that mistimed and unwanted children are at a disadvantage: Those younger than two have higher mean scores for fearfulness than wanted infants and lower scores for positive affect; unintended preschoolers score lower on a measure of receptive vocabulary."

"Other research has revealed that unwantedness contributed to the likelihood of abuse or neglect; 20 one prospective study found that two of the 20 early warning signs of child abuse pertain to unwantedness. 21"

[Downwinder]

3. Can we nominate Texas Monthly for the "bum steer award"?

[w8liftinglady]

4. LOL...because it is such a left-wing rag?

according to my peers