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Pro Life People are Not Anti-Woman

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Since the pro life law was signed by Governor Kay Ivey, a small but very loud portion of the country has taken to their keyboards to protest and claim that pro lifers are anti woman.

One woman tw eeted:

Dear Pro-Life friends: what have you *personally* done to support lower income single mothers?

I’ll wait:

https://twitter.com/TuttleSinger/status/1128739808178843649

Her tweet has since gone viral, so far getting thirteen thousand comments – a large portion of them from pro life people sharing stories of what they have done to support women – specifically the lower income single mothers referred to in the tweet asking the original question. The responses are amazing:

Just paid for a single mom friend’s car repair yesterday.
— Diana Sutton (@didi11) May 15, 2019

Donated a well working car to a pregnancy support center, which was given to a single mom who chose life.
— Trevin Wax (@TrevinWax) May 16, 2019

I’ve volunteered at a crisis pregnancy center. We gave out diapers and baby formula and had a “store” with kids clothes that moms could shop in. It was a beautiful place and really helped many women ?
— Lisa? (@lisefromphilly) May 15, 2019

Became foster parents, which led to adoption. Intentionally worked to build relationship with and support our son's birth mother. Helped her w/ buying furniture & more when she got out of prison and moved into low-income housing. Hosted & officiated her wedding a few years later.
— Joshua Ryan Butler (@butlerjosh) May 17, 2019

Last year alone, we raised a quarter million dollars to support families and centers who take in moms and their babies. We get them prenatal and postnatal care, help them get started on education, jobs, whatever they need.
— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) May 16, 2019

my family has welcomed a friend of mine to live with us and let us help her with her baby so she wouldn’t feel that abortion was her only option 🙂 most pro-life people truly care and want to help both mothers and their babies ?
— kaylee grace (@kayleegsnider) May 17, 2019

I helped restore an old apartment building for at risk pregnant homeless mothers and contributed to the charity that provided them a safe home and training.
— Dan Nelson (@IlliniDan2) May 17, 2019

I hate telling the world this as it is between my wife and I, but so that you can see that we do truly care, we sponsor two little girls (7 & 14). We pay for their education, clothes, food and medical. We've done this for about 8 years now. We also pray for them.
— Arun Joseph (@apjoseph2013) May 17, 2019

The responses are overwhelming, and it’s amazing to hear what pro life people are doing to support single moms out there.

My wife and I fully funded a (pregnant) single moms living expenses for 5 months, drove her to doctors visits, and got her an apartment to help her get out of an abusive household.
— Jarrid Wilson (@JarridWilson) May 17, 2019

My wife & I regularly donate diapers, clothes, and money to our local pregnancy center, who gives it away for free. Once a month we cook dinner for the local women's & children's home. ?
— Christopher W. (@SingForTheDay) May 17, 2019

You can read the entire thread on Twitter here. It’s probably the single best thing I’ve eve read on Twitter. In politics, sometimes it’s to easy to get caught up in echo chambers and forget that the people on the other side of your political perspective are actually human. This Twitter thread illustrates the humanity of the pro life movement in very tangible, personal ways.