Elisa Mariño
2 min readSep 14, 2022

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No. I'm aware that having children takes sacrifice. That is why I would never force someone to have them against their will. That is why I won't force someone to continue a pregnancy and give birth against their will.

It seems to me that since "having children takes sacrifices" and that it is usually women who make that sacrifice, that that makes it OK to force women to make that sacrifice. Sorry, but no.

The fact that you think that making gradnmas take care of grandchildren is not a burden is also telling. One thing is for children to visit their grandmas and another is that the grandma takes a daily responsibility to take care of children.

Notice that you say "free healthcare for inmigrants", and for the rest? And if a woman is "getting by", not poor but not rich and can't afford the 10000$ that giving birth cost in average? Ah, right, then she would have to take debt and "sacrifice" again. Let's face it, men talk about "it is not my fault that it is women who get pregnant" while wanting to force women to go through unwanted pregnancies when there is a simple solution: abortion.

Sorry, but we both know that those programs don't cover many of the cost of having children and that many women struggle. That at USA.

In my country we have public healthcare for everyone and paid maternity leave and even here, having children is difficult to afford.

I don't ask other people to make sacrifices that I won't be willing to make too. Get real, you are asking others to put their health at risk, to make sacrifices and basically have unwanted children for your sake. What are you sacrificing here?

Going through a pregnancy and giving birth just to be punished at work, going into debt and not being able to feed healthily the resulting child is just cruel. And there are children malnourised at US:

https://www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/child-hunger-in-america#:~:text=Statistics%20about%20child%20hunger%20in,more%20families%20are%20going%20hungry.

So your "help" and programs are not enough even with women aborting unwanted children. If you start forcing women to have those unwanted children, the resources to feed those children would fall even shorter.

I would quote:

"Today, there are an estimated 17 million children struggling with hunger in America – 6 million more than before the pandemic. And 2.7 million more families are going hungry."

Now explain again about all that "help" and CHIP, because it doesn't seem to reach everyone. 17 millions of children going hungry at a rich country is shameful.

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Elisa Mariño
Elisa Mariño

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