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Question for pro-lifers
I got pregnant at 22, still in college, working as a waitress, surviving on foodstamps. If I had kept the child would you have helped me? Would you support foodstamp and family services? Health insurance for me and my child? Would you support family planning services to make sure my child didn't continue this cycle?
Having a child at that point in my life could have easily doomed me to poverty and reliance on social services for years, yet most anti-choices folks are also anti tax, social service and family planning. How do you hold those values at the same time? As another commenter has noted, have you adopted any unwanted children?

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