abortion, bitches! or, parenting license

Last week a kindergarten student wet her pants. since it was the end of the day, mom came to pick her up and that was that.

the next day, the student's teacher sent her up to the nurse's office. the child was wearing the same clothes in which she had been sent home and smelled like urine. the nurse and another teacher, with a generous helping of baby wipes from another teacher, helped the little girl to clean up, and found her a clean pair of underwear, pants and a shirt.

they said it appeared that the girl had been wearing the same pair of underwear for a week.

the nurse also commented on the little girl's recently-braided hair. "it must've taken at least six hours to braid her hair. she said her mamma did it last night. it's like professional! i would send my girls to her to get their hair done, if that woman didn't let her little girl walk around all nasty!"

the sad part is the little girl didn't even realize she was dirty. and i couldn't believe the mom would spend so much time on the child's hair and neglect to bathe her (or not even realize how she smelled!!!)

which leads me to a point on abortion. true, had the mother had an abortion this little girl would not have come about. but that's not the point i'm trying to make.

what i'd like to say is that to me it appears the problem with adamant pro-lifers is that they don't seem to consider people who might not be in an economic condition that would be good for children. consider the above child, or any other child born into poverty. a lot of these kids come from single-parent homes, which leads one to assume they weren't products of planned pregnancies. these mothers have to work for a living, or are on welfare, and probably aren't insured, so it costs everyone to take care of these unplanned pregnancies, in terms of tax dollars. would it not make sense to have abortion be an option? (that is something i need to find out though, the attitudes of this group of people towards abortion. is it even an option for them? why do they have babies if they can't afford to support them?)

of course we could take care of this problem quite easily: take away everyone's capability of making babies temporarily. then, everyone who wants to have babies will need to apply for a license; upon granting of said license, reproductive rights will be restored. easy!