why didn they talk about women whove had an abortion when confronted with an unplanned pregnancy?
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, about one-third of American women have had an abortion. One-third! CindyLu: Great response! People often underestimate the impact of being an unwed mom, even today. Twenty years ago, a friend of mine was basically shoved out of her teaching job in Alabama because she had a child out of wedlock–at the age of 29. I’m an unmarried teacher and I’ve been warned about even having a *planned* pregnancy. I’ve been told by older teachers that if I want to be a single mom later on, I need to time my pregnancy so that I start to show in the summer, and get a job in another school district far away for the next school year. Then, at the new school, I could be purposely vague about a “divorce.” It’s great that we can read articles like this, but the fact of the matter is that being an unwed mother still has a social and professional stigma attached, even moreso if it happens to women of a certain age and in certain professions. These articles are selling
