Anti-abortion pregnancy services are about control

I just wanted to thank Ed Mohs for his Feb 6th letter letting people know where they can get used clothes and free diapers for pregnancies that they were either tricked or forced into carrying to term. It’s so incredibly helpful to know that the same people that put women and families into this position with their draconian anti-abortion laws and lies will now be there to, what? Care for those children that have 2 a.m. colic when their parents must go to work and cannot take a day off? Pay for daycare? Health insurance?

The anti-abortion crowd cares about birth, and birth alone. They constantly decry people relying on the government, but they are just fine with those same people relying on religious-based organizations for help. Do not be fooled, this about control, not about help. The places referenced have ideologies that are at their core un-American. All they spout is freedom! From masks, vaccines, and generally all rules they do not agree with. We have seen it for the last several years.

There is no freedom for the person forced to endure reproductive slavery, and that is really what the anti-abortion movement is about. For more information listen to “Access: A Podcast About Abortion.” The facts speak for themselves.

Janean Desmarais

Everett

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