I think I can make some interesting observations about you from the tone of your post.
1) You have never been poor and most likely come from a middle class family, never really going without food or decent clothing. Certainly never having your utilities turned off or having to worry where your next meal would come from. Ever have shoes from Payless? Shopped at K-mart? It is doubtful. Of course you'll probably say you had it hard, even if your family is worth quite a bit. I know a millionaire who complains about how poor she is.
2.) Nuclear Family with a mommy and a daddy, daddy played football (baseball? Rugby? Lacrosse?) with you on weekends while mommy baked cookies and lived at home. She could afford to do this because Daddy is which? (Lawyer? Doctor? CEO? Military Officer?)
3.)You will never understand the plight of the poor. you can't! You have no point of reference of the pain of that existence or how hard it is to work out of it.
As far as what you have to say. The tone is all wrong and shows no compassion or real want to help this person or persuade them in any way. I am prochoice, I think it is in the best interest of someone who will ruin their life by starting a family too early to terminate that pregnancy. On the other hand, I have known many who have gone through with the said act only to regret it the rest of their days, as their situation improved faster than they anticipated. Her reaction to you was because of your tone, you weren't being helpful, you were attacking her character, somehow puffing yourself up with your own superiority.
I come from a one parent home. My mother was never on welfare, worked hard for a living at an 11-7 shift as a nurse at a hospital 6 nights a week. We had nothing growing up while my rich father was busy stealing our inheritance and avoiding child support. I can tell you I have seen the point of view from both sides of the spectrum. The rich are blind, selfish, narcisisstic, and quite honestly evil. They usually claim to be good christians too. If you think you are a good christian, have a look at what Jesus had to say about charity.
I will tell you the system is truly rigged toward the ritch and against the poor
Coming from a poor home, I have had to work twice as hard as you to have equal standing to you. And there are no programs for a poor man who fits in my demographic. I'm not a minority and not a female. Though, I think programs for them should stay in place instead of being torn down by the rich republicans you cherish so much. You won't understand that I look on you with pity. You have no soul, no heart, and no truth to your character. You are narcissistic and too valuing of your own self importance in the world. You somehow think that people who are poor deserve to be there. Guess what bucko! If you were to lose it all today. Mommy and daddy took away the trust fund, your stocks soured and you lost your shirt. YOU WOULD NOT SURVIVE! Without the money you are nothing but a spoiled brat who wouldn't know what REAL hard work is.
Of course why do I bother, you have eyes, yet cannot see the truth when it is staring back at you. There is something terribly wrong in this world. When you meet Jesus at the pearly gates and he tells you he does not know you. Then you'll understand.
"The dispossessed of this nation - the poor, both white and Negro - live in a cruelly unjust society. They must organise against that injustice, not against the lives of persons who are their fellow citizens, but against the structures through which the society is refusing to take means which have been called for, and which are at hand, to lift the load of poverty.The only real revolutionary, people say, is a man who has nothing to lose. There are millions of poor people in this country who have very little, or even nothing, to lose. If they can be helped to take action together, they will do so with a freedom and a power that will be a new and unsettling force in our complacent national life." --Martin Luther King
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