Just don't use the rhythm method.
Posted on 07/05/2023 1:39:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Madelynn Ballenger discovered she was pregnant for the second time at 20 years old. Already a single mother to a young son, she didn’t know whether she could take on a second child physically or financially. “It was really, really scary,” Ballenger said. “I didn’t have a job. I wasn’t in a good position to be expecting another child.”
It was September 2021, the month Texas’ ban on abortions after six weeks took effect, and Ballenger was five weeks pregnant. That left her little time to decide whether to keep the baby or terminate the pregnancy — if she could even find an available appointment to get an abortion.b I was already so stressed out, and I was just like, how am I supposed to make this decision in such a short amount of time?” Ballenger said. “How am I supposed to know what’s good for me, what’s good for my whole situation, in just a few days? No woman should be forced to make that kind of decision in less than two weeks. That’s just not humane.”
She opted to carry the baby to term. Then, 48 hours after she gave birth to a healthy boy, Ballenger made the agonizing decision to place him in adoptive care. “It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” she said. “It’s the most difficult thing I’ll ever do.”
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Ping
Mercy, not Murder?
Common Sense, not Raging Lunacy?
I am surprised they won’t bother to drive over a state line for an abortion. They sure will for marijuana.
Ballenger said. “How am I supposed to know what’s good for me, what’s good for my whole situation, in just a few days? No woman should be forced to make that kind of decision in less than two weeks. That’s just not humane.”
Pretty sure your child and his/her adoptive parents would disagree. At least she made the right decision.
So why didn’t Linda Graham talk about this when Roe was overturned? Instead he threw gas on the fire. Real smart. We could have gotten the upper hand on this right the beginning with adoption advocacy and adoption groups coming forward. Didn’t happen. It won’t get dealt with before November of ‘24. Another opportunity lost. Really stupid.
I know letting a child go is heartbreaking even if you know that they will be going to parents who love and want them. It is even harder when you know they are going back into a situation that was so bad they were already removed once. But murder as a solution?
How does your mind even go there?
She didn’t have just two weeks...she had however long it was between her last unexpected pregnancy and this one to decide not to have sex unless she was prepared for the child.
though I have never been in the woman in the articles position, it seems to me she made decisions to possibly get pregnant.
they weren’t too stressful for he in 1-2 days before hand, maybe even shorter time?
Maybe she should have weighed those moments of decision more so, to not then have pregnancy decisions to make?
each choice along the way has consequence. many don’t care until unwanted or unexpected result happens as consequence, then it’s not fair, too much pressure?
It’s like shooting yourself in the foot and “discovering” that a peice of metal tearing a gaping, bleeding hole in your body might actually hurt.
As you indicated, actions have consequences.
If you are not mature enough to face the consequences of having sex, you are not mature enough to have sex.
These young kids are not the most intelligent when it comes to preventing pregnancy.
That' may be.
But it's a hell of a lot easier for your son than being chopped up into little pieces ...
At least she didn't make her son suffer the consequences. Give her credit for that.
I know ... she only did what she was "supposed to do". These days, doing what you're "supposed to do" is a counter-cultural act of revolution.
Because he is a sabatour.
saboteur
That is not a "young kid".
And various methods for birth control are advertised and available all over the place.
You can pick up a large box of birth control in the same place where you buy your deodorant.
I know a wife who married her Navy husband, had two kids, and it still took years and lots of money to make her a legal American. My son and his wife have endured many miscarriages and stillborn children. They can't afford adoption even from a state agency. Tens of thousands of dollars and meanwhile babies and toddlers languish in foster care.
I have a friend who came to the U.S. legally when he was twelve. It took him 26 years to get citizenship. And he couldn’t leave the country to go to his grandparents’ funerals, or he would have to restart.
Just don't use the rhythm method.
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