GuessTheAltAccount wrote:Dakini wrote:If I hadn't seen the OP before, I'd wonder why he's so hung up on poverty among teenage fathers when teenage mothers are much more affected and impoverished by teenage pregnancy
I'll look into your link when I get a chance, but one point I can already address even just from your description of the link is that at no point did I claim teenage mothers weren't in poverty. But they did choose poverty over delaying motherhood,
Except in places where teenagers have to receive parental consent to have an abortion.
Or in places where abortion is inaccessible.
Or in places where abortion is illegal.
Or in places where abortion is so restricted that it's practically illegal.
Or teenagers whose parents and/or partners pressure them into not aborting.
Or teenagers who are lied to about abortion (e.g. there are people who claim that abortion causes cancer and infertility).
And so on and so on.
There are a lot of reasons that women (especially young women) who would otherwise have an abortion do not end up having one.