Disturbing?
I don't get into this conversation much, but...
Is this woeful tale supposed to illicit sympathy for the mother? Is Costco really that bad? And from her disaffection towards Costco, is it any more clear that people in New York are dramatically different from those in Red States?
Isn't it disturbing that this woman went off the pill because she "didn't like how it made her feel" and then decided to off her twins because she didn't like how they'd make her feel either. The mayo made her do it. Sick.
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I don't usually get into this, either. And I'm not going to take a stance one way or another on the contents of the article. But for goodness sake, it's not like abortions only happen in New York. There are people in "The Red States" who have abortions, too. And their reasons for abortion are probably similar to the those mentioned by the woman in the article.
An example: I'm living in a city (I use that word loosely) where there appears to be a lot more women between 18 and 25 who are pregnant or who have kids. I'm basing this partially on anecdotal evidence (my forays into the community) and partially on empirical evidence (Tom Green and several West Texas counties have some of the highest teen-pregnancy rates in the state, and I'm extrapolating that into the early 20s). For an area that considers itself conservative and where abstinence-based sex-ed programs are the norm, there sure are a lot of young, unwed women with, shall I say, the stomach mumps.
I am a year removed from being in an environment where there were slightly more women than men and casual sex was not unheard of. How many women did I know in five years at UT who had babies? None. Since I've lived in San Angelo -- a period of just over a year -- how many women have I known who had babies? Three. I may be going out on a limb here, but for some reason I don't think all the sexually active women I knew in college didn't have babies by virtue of luck. Given that a child can throw a wrench into your plans, I think it's fair to assume that some of these women, in the heart of one of the reddest red states, paid a visit to Planned Parenthood, and it wasn't for a pap smear.
If you want to be against abortion, fine. That's not what I'm here to argue about. But don't go thinking that only New York women have abortions to minimize inconvenience to themselves.
The point: Women here like going to Costco. Women in New York would have an abortion to avoid it.
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