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Life is hard; people have to make hard choices to survive sometimes, particularly pregnant women.
My mom grew up during the depression. She was poor, had little education and no job prospects, so she married a soldier during WWII just to get an income. It was a mistake; he was abusive, and there'd never been any love on either side. So she divorced him, married my father a few years later, and never told us kids about it until we were adults.
So, not long after that conversation, the subject of abortion came up for some reason. She said, "I hate it." I asked, "Would you outlaw it?" And she looked at me for the longest time; I felt she was about to say something. And then she just said, "No." I never followed up. But I knew. A pregnant woman on her own in the '40s, especially poor, was in desperate straights. She did the necessary to survive. And I sure don't blame her.
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