As long as Will Pitt is doing it, I think I'll call myself out

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29. I'm saying neither.

I posted above that my family uses what we find to be more appropriate labels. Right wingers call themselves pro-life, but the only thing they really are is pro-birth. After the baby is born, they can't be bothered with how that child will be raised or how the family will be affected.

My family has had to deal with abortion and for the sake of my relative and the lives of her already born children, she felt as if she would be putting her other children and the new one in a really bad situation. Since then, we have stopped referring to ourselves as pro-choice. As my relative and her three children and husband were desperately poor, I realized that I needed to look at everyone whose lives would be impacted by this pregnancy, especially as the last child she gave birth to has serious physical and mental disabilities. In the big scheme of things, she had to balance the lives of her family with the hardship of another pregnancy and quite possibly difficult birth and future care of another possibly ill child. Her choice was pro-life and in her honor, we've changed the nomenclature.

She and her husband both died young and the child with the disabilities is now in his mid 20s and being cared for by a sister and home health aide.