Choose Life #3
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Reasons to use your abortion rights to see it as a life and choose life:

" Children are not a drain. They are a benefit"

While thinking through reasons to choose life of your own free will #1 and #2 a third occurred to me.

One of the reasons stated for abortion is that it is a drag on the female and holds her down. I have come to believe through the idea of making your life intentionally hard that raising children is a benefit in that it trains you for future success. Hear me out.

Bearing and raising children will definitely increase the difficulty and hardness of your life. It is most definitely the hardest thing that you will ever do. It doesn't take a village but it certainly takes a family to do it properly.

If you choose to abort your child to make your current life easier, you are ultimately making your future life harder. Having an abortion is like getting reward without effort or getting welfare. It allows you to take the easy way. Raising children are training. Like an athelete who goes to the gym, track, or field and punishes themselves to build the strength and stamina to win in competition, raising a child will build up your work muscle and make you stronger. Choosing parenthood trains you for your future success. Raising a child is an 18+ year endeavor but it's not necessarily an 18 year absence from the work force. In a two parent family, the partners can stagger work schedules as needed so one parent can be at home with the child at all times. It is profoundly hard on both parents (and two parents are needed).

The benefits are that you have developed the work strength and work ethic to support both yourself, your partner and one or more children. When the self sufficient child leaves the nest (and self sufficient is the key) you have less financial needs but still have the skill to support both you and others. This is where you build wealth. Your wages will increase over time but your expenses will decrease. In your post child 40 to 65 years you can stack cash with your margin, increase spending on fun or both. You may also have the opportunity to spoil grandchildren.
There is a saying "If you raise your children, you can spoil your grand children"
"If you spoil your children, you get to raise your grand children"

Having children allows you to build a family tribe. Building a family tribe allows you to be their leader.

I humbly argue that it is better to raise kids than own cats.

That's just my opinion. And you know what they say about opinions.