F*** the pro-lifers
I had a horrible abortion guilt dream last night.
I had an abortion at a time when my husband and I were not prepared to raise a child in the way I always knew was right for me. When we did have a child, 13 years into our now 35 year marriage, I left my job that I had trained and gone to school for - my career really - and worked only part time for the ensuing 13 years so that I could focus on our child, put her first. I devoted so much time and energy to our daughter, helping at school and being an anchor for many extra-curricular activities. I left jobs when they tried to up my hours to full time. I struggled to keep her out of substandard daycare or babysitter situations. I stressed every summer when she was out of school and there was more time to provide coverage for. We scaled back on our budget. This was right for me and for our family. I am so glad I had that time with her.
I lost enough time from my career that now, at 60, I am back in school and getting back on track professionally.
So, screw the busybody pro-lifers who think they have a right to review and judge my decisions, or anyone's. It was right for my family, and was made with the best resources I had available at the time. Maybe if this country provided the kind of daycare or family-friendly work policies as they do in other, more socialist leaning countries, people like me won't have to make these hard choices.
I don't "blame" anyone else for my choice or how I feel about it, but they don't have to layer on their guilt to a really hard and painful life decision and event.
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It would be too easy for them to use it for their "good" and our bad. Has to be a negative we pin them with. Which is easy because that's what they are, negative. There's nothing pro about them.
They don't actually care about the mother, or even the health of the fetus. Just the concept that the woman must be punished by carrying the Holy Fetus until birth (or death of both, they don't care). Once born the child can be punished for the sins of its parents like any other poor person. 
