Posted on 11/25/2022 5:31:51 AM PST by karpov
“This is going to ruin your life.” “You have to drop out of college.” “This is a mistake.” “Abort the baby .”
These words, uttered by people whom I trusted and loved most in this world, struck me like a knife.
When I learned I was pregnant , I was 21 years old and still in school. I was engaged to be married, and while those two pink lines came as a complete shock, I wanted to be a mother.
My feelings were overlooked by those close to me. Rather than offering support, my family and friends responded with criticism and doubt. It was Thanksgiving Day, and my fiance at the time told me to abort the baby and that we could "try again after we got married.” When I insisted on keeping my child, he abandoned me.
Scared, alone, and with no support, I stumbled upon the Pregnancy Resource Center of Rolla, Missouri. I sought out a free ultrasound, which was one of the many services it provided. While there, I met Jane Dalton, who served as the center’s client services director. I told her my situation, and in turn, she asked me what I wanted.
I wanted to be a mother — and a good one at that. But I also wanted to finish school and become financially self-sufficient. Jane told me that I could do all of those things and that the PRC would be there to help.
I soon moved into the maternity home connected to PRC and was immediately surrounded by love and support from complete strangers rather than the fear of family and friends that my life would hold less value as a mother.
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I’m Catholic, so no abortions for me. I had the shock of a pregnant daughter at 19 years old.
That kid is now my hunting partner and the driver of my race car. His 17 year old sister will graduate next year and start college, a beautiful blonde A student. Her younger brother just had his first football season in junior high and another beautiful daughter is in first grade.
How would my life be without these?
ANY MAN WHO WOULD NOT OWN UP TO CREATING A CHILD IS THINKING OF HIMSELF, NOT YOU, GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBISH I walked out of a 4 yr marriage due to the ABUSIVE to our children one of those idiots, took a decade to trust again. No safety nets but my parents, and I went to work waiting tables for $1.50 an hr. My HS ED WAS OBSOLETE.
You are ignoring that she chose life
If you don’t want to pay child support don’t make babies
Exactly - and the women generally controls if or not she will engage.
In todays world women still appear to think pregency means the father will step up to the plate. That rarely is the case. So ‘she’ needs to destermine if or not she wants to risk being a single mother. The option of abortion is murder.
Tell the men to keep the zipper closed
Gentlemen: Only ever “do it” with your wife.
Ladies: Only ever “do it” with your husband.
Good advice
You, and your bride, have my deepest respect.
I did not wait for marriage, in fact I lost my virginity rather young. BUT, my motto until finally marrying and us deciding to start a family was “wrap it, tie it in a knot, or totally keep it in your pocket”.
My morality in my youth might be questioned, but my sense of responsibility absolutely can’t be. Not like I was a player or anything either.
People that fail to take responsibility for their actions is what has led to the perilous state this Nation finds itself in. That, along with a total abandonment of any sense of morality by the population at large has us on the brink of disaster.
Very few would comply.
Sadly
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