Facing an unplanned
pregnancy can mean a
woman is facing a serious crisis. She needs real help.
Health care for a
strong mother and healthy baby. Education
- not only well-run preschools but also higher education plans that
offer support to mothers - and fathers - who have dreams of supporting
themselves and making their own contribution to our economy. Child
care programs that respond to the needs of working
families.
We could make this happen.
Many pro-life advocacy efforts have focused on the
legal
status of abortion, rather than addressing prevention of unplanned
pregnancy and the needs of pregnant women and families. This has intensified
the division and partisanship around this issue, but
has little effect at reducing the abortion rate itself.
Making the choice for life possible is a choice we
can all make.
And it's a choice Barack Obama has
already made, as he challenges us to live up to the call us to "be
our brothers' and sisters' keepers,"
to join together to help women in difficult situations make the choice
for life by providing pre- and postnatal care, income support, parent
training and caring adoption programs.
We need a systemic, common ground,
common sense
approach. Nearly two-thirds of women who have abortions are poor.
Almost half are college-age or younger. Two thirds are single.
We can drastically reduce abortions
by helping reduce unplanned pregnancies and supporting pregnant women
and families that need help.
Senator Barack Obama will
fight to make sure that every woman in America
has the support she needs when facing an unplanned pregnancy. Senator
Obama's grass-roots, faith-based approach
of support for women and families will help them when they most need
it, preventing abortions by supporting women and families to choose
life.
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