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Georgia Pearle Foster writes about changing her views on abortion after she experienced firsthand the ways in which our country lacks the social support to accommodate children and mothers.I was pro-life once. Growing up in coastal Alabama, I had heard my mother tell the story of her abortion publicly with great shame and grief, had seen her on her way to a pro-life rally, had been told that my life was an amends for the pregnancy that had ended prematurely.
A few years later, I married again, this time to someone who seemed stable. He was in recovery for addiction, had been sober for years, and had won awards for his work as a fine dining chef. He was good to my child, and wanted a family. We moved to Massachusetts where I had gotten into an elite private college with a phenomenal financial aid package. He continued to grow an impressive portfolio in fine dining, eventually being offered a position as an executive chef in our town’s nicest hotel.
One of the grocery store clerks at a store I frequented had a habit of scanning coupons at the register when she saw me coming, which, on the surface, seemed like a nice thing to do. The problem is, when you’re paying with food stamps , you have to pay the tax on coupons with cash, and I didn’t have cash. Repeatedly this cashier chastised me for not having the few pennies in cash, loudly, while other customers scoffed or raised their eyebrows behind us in line.
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