The way things are going, it seems like this idea would be fair, if at least this was the law of the land. My mom’s mother lost her when she was exploited by Georgia Tann, because my mom’s father did not take financial responsibility for her life. There is no other perspective I can see as valid. I think he was a good and kind man but why did he abandon them ? That is a question I will never have an answer for.
Though unwed, the married man who impregnated my paternal grandmother did not take any responsibility for his existence either. I don’t know that the man ever knew he was a father, though my grandmother was clear enough about it to give my dad his father’s middle name and keep a head shot photo of the man with his name and the word “boyfriend” next to a photo of her with my dad on her lap.
People who are pro-life are usually only pro-birth. They don’t consider either the prolonged gestation, during which a woman may not be able to work, nor the life-long commitment that having a child entails. Condemning a woman and her children to poverty is not being a supporter of life that has any good qualities beyond love (and of course, love is very important) but that it is okay for them to starve and not have shelter or clothing.
Regardless of the personal hell they will live through, that baby must be born. The new Jim Crow ?
Missing Mom 