Dmitri: helping mothers makes it less likely that they’ll sell their babies to a christian adoption mill, so you can see why’d they think any kind of support is counterproductive.

“They forced me, basically, to have a child,” she said of the state after the abortion ban. But then, “they didn’t help me take care of that child.”

The Year After a Denied Abortion Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it. projects.propublica.org/the-year-aft...

She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.projects.propublica.org Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.

NO SHIT Can we finally start accepting that if "pro-life" people really just wanted to protect "babies" that their approach would look COMPLETELY DIFFERENT? Where's the pro-life demand for UBI, FREE prenatal and infant/child medical care, FREE hospital births, affordable childcare programs, etc?

OOPS! Looks like they forgot that completely in their rush to punish people who can get pregnant by forcing them to have a child they don't want, can't afford, or might die in birthing. Even if the pregnant person is a literal child themselves!

helping mothers makes it less likely that they’ll sell their babies to a christian adoption mill, so you can see why’d they think any kind of support is counterproductive.

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