re: #21 wrenchwench

No it’s not. It’s the only way they see to take the vote away from women. In their personal lives, where it counts the most. Talk about politics being local…

Not just a vote, but often a future, or at least a future that is not filled with hardship because getting an education and working while supporting an infant and then a child is very expensive and time consuming.

A woman who has a child has many more hurdles to jump through to succeed. And republicans don’t want to help, they solely want to punish (and if you really listen to many republican religious zealots, they want the woman to marry whomever the father is, thus further increasing hardship, whether he beats her, hates her, etc.) So mother and child bear the burden of a more difficult future.