Much To Obama's Dismay, This Woman Quit Law School To Be A Mother

A counterpoint to President Obama’s statement that women leaving the workplace to become stay-at-home mothers was “not a choice we want Americans to make.”

When people asked me why I wanted to go to law school, I would jokingly say that I was going to become a constitutional lawyer and save our country. A bit arrogant, I know, but certainly President Obama can sympathize….

In the end, I had to make a decision: Stay in law school, concentrate on becoming a constitutional lawyer, serve and save my country; or quit, stop neglecting my family, go home, and be a wife to my husband and a mom to my daughters—saving my family.

Luma Simms, a woman who “g[a]ve up [her] dreams and the possibility of a future paycheck” so that she could become a stay-at-home mother. She wrote an op-ed for The Federalist to serve as a counterpoint to President Obama’s statement that women leaving the workplace to become stay-at-home mothers was “not a choice we want Americans to make.”

(Some argue that Obama’s comments were taken out of context.)

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