“If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not in fact making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couple?” Edwards said.
I think that’s what we often do, and I do think the worst interpretation in this instance is entirely accurate.
But you’re right, I don’t think that’s what they did in this case.