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I remember when Mitt Romney became incensed<\/a> that anyone would say that his homemaker wife had never \u201cworked\u201d even as Mitt Romney himself had argued that poor mothers shouldn\u2019t be allowed to stay at home on the dole because they needed \u201cthe dignity of work.\u201d I also remember Mitt Romney both wanting to pass a personhood amendment<\/a> that would ban abortion and simultaneously blaming gun violence on single mothers<\/a>. One of the reasons wrote my viral post about losing faith in the pro-life movement<\/a>\u00a0was that I had become completely and utterly disgusted with this very dynamic.<\/p>\n

The stigma surrounding being an unwed mother, a single mother, or a poor mother is real, and this stigma contributes to women in these situations choosing abortion. The dominant narrative of the political conservatism in this country urges the unmarried, single, or poor pregnant woman not to \u201ckill her baby\u201d and then calls the unmarried, single, or poor mother lazy, selfish, and irresponsible, and then blames society\u2019s ills on her. There is nothing that is \u201cpro-life\u201d about this narrative.<\/p>\n

My only quibble with this cartoon is that the image to the left is not representative of the stage at which the vast vast majority of abortions take place\u2014the first trimester. Indeed, by the time the pregnancy has advanced as far as the one in the image, many conservatives have commenced complaining about<\/a> the fact that the medical needs surrounding the pregnancy, labor, and birth may well be covered by Medicaid.<\/p>\n

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