Oh these are also anecdotal, but I had a co-worker who I’m not sure is 100% pro-life because she is a hardcore progressive like most people working in BH
But she has an interesting story regarding her son. She was 19 or so at a party and hooked up with someone due to being too drunk and high on coke. By this point she was partying and doing coke pretty much every weekend
I still have no idea why she didn’t get an abortion because once again I don’t think she is opposed to it, but it’s not because she didn’t know she was pregnant. She knew just about as soon as one could, and when she hit up the dad, he at first acted invested and then left the state
To this day she claims having the kid changed her life. When she was my co-worker she was one of my biggest nags against my argument that I’m too narcissistic to be a good parent. She says having a kid changes something in your brain, and you feel a strong paternal bond immediately. Now I don’t believe this is true for everyone but for her it was. She claims that having that kid and being a single parent actually SAVED her life, because it caused her to stop doing the drugs (having the kid was her rock bottom moment), and clean herself up, get her master’s degree, etc
The only footnote is that she did have the support of her family for helping to watch the kid. But when someone has the thought “I need to terminate this pregnancy to benefit my situation” it might be just the opposite. For some people having a kid causes some immediate change in their outlook on life and goals in a positive way
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