If You Can’t Be a Good Parent, The Right Wants to Force You to Become a Bad One, Because Wounded Children Grow their Base
Unwanted children are prime targets for alt right recruitment.
Ideologues cannot end abortion, they can only ever end safe abortions. That’s why a so-called ‘pro life’ world would definitely have a lot more dead women in it. Similarly, the same ideologues can’t magically transform strangers into good parents against their will, they can only ever force them into becoming resentful undersupported parents. For a repressive right wing willing to do anything it takes to acquire and maintain power, it turns out that’s actually a feature, not a bug.
When a woman believes she’s not in a position to be a good parent, I think we should believe her. She is in the best position to know. Maybe she’s capable of curing cancer, and it’s in our collective best interest that she invests her time in that instead. Maybe she is an abused child herself, much less able to care well for a defenceless infant. Most women will land on a spectrum somewhere between the two, but the root issue remains: she is the person best able to judge whether she’s able to step up and do this difficult complex task well.
