Teachers see the good side and bad side of marriages. Many teachers support family planning. They know spacing years between children mean parents will have the time and funds to take better care of each child. A college education for children born 3 or 4 years apart is much more likely than for children spaced 2 years or less. Planned Parenthood uses 97% of its funds promoting women’s health. The other 3% can be used for activities that may end up with abortion.
My two sons had been married several years and there was only one grandchild. They had not been able to save much money and had no immediate plans for one. They could only afford a decent one bedroom apartment. I offered to give them each $10,000 toward a house financed by my equity line of credit. They each bought a 3 bedroom fixer-upper. This was in 2000 and I now have 4 grandchildren 18 or older.
Not everyone has the resources to plan success. Some plan very poorly and some have really bad luck which might make an abortion a sad but wise decision, for one or both parents or for the sake of existing children. For example consider the wife with an alcoholic husband who already has children and knows another one will make the situation much worse. But her husband comes home drunk regularly, insists on sex and won’t use protection. Should she chose an abortion to help her existing children or bring a new child into a really bad situation? More violence, greater poverty, more exhaustion and neglect of children’s basic needs and help with homework and decent clothes.
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long-term contraception is available - implants, IUDs
Excess children should be disposed of? Make your life more convenient by killing people? If babies are okay to kill, why not inconvenient neighbors?