Mom Pays Off Every Student's Balance Following Son's Denial of School Lunch

[moriah]

110. You didn't say "more" children at first, you said "children". And I presume you're pro-choice?

I'm quite pro-choice.

Which meant that when my young friend got pregnant at 18, I supported her un-coerced decision to have her child vs abort it (she was also pro-choice, and made hers for herself.) They got married, they worked hard, until the husband was the driver of a van (for work) that got hit head-on by a cement truck that crossed the line. He's on disability now. They're on public assistance, live in public housing, are on food stamps, and their daughter gets free lunches. When their birth control failed again eight years later, they also elected to keep that child vs abort it. Their second daughter is a year old now, and unfortunately the mom had severe complications from that pregnancy and hasn't been able to work herself since -- but she is taking care of her children and her husband, which is a full time job in and of itself.

They were on assistance when their birth control failed. To suggest that they shouldn't have had their second daughter is to step very clumsily into an area that anyone who is pro-choice hopefully knows better than to judge -- the extremely complicated decision about what to do when you have an unplanned pregnancy.

Now, if you're talking planned pregnancies and public assistance, that brings up another whole can of worms that is a huge Republican talking point -- no, their situation wasn't made any better insofar as the assistance they got when they had their second child, aside from getting to move to a slightly bigger apartment to accommodate the size of the family.

You see why I was really hoping this was sarcasm on your part?