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Once again it matters not what I do the question is what are the scientific facts but keep trying.
Hello again Kylie, I thought that's what you meant. Thank you for making it clear for me
Hello again Kylie, I thought that's what you meant. Thank you for making it clear for me
As for my reply, when I wrote this, that: "there are 100+ "qualified" couples looking to adopt a newborn baby for every newborn baby who is put up for adoption" these days, I was actually being very specific/saying exactly what I meant.
These 100+ couples that I was referring to are mostly infertile (or gay), or single people, who are still hoping to start and raise a family of their own, just like couples who are able to give birth to their own babies do, but by adoption instead. So, while there are certainly/sadly unwanted older children and teens out there today, there will never be a baby who is "unwanted" (because there are, as I said above, 100 times as many qualified couples who want to adopt a "baby" as there are babies for them to adopt).
--David
p.s. - being "unwanted" is only one of the many reasons that children end up in our foster care system.
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I'm not quite following you!(?)
).That's the figure that my wife and I were shown 23 years ago by our lawyer when we began looking into adopting a baby (so that we would not be too disappointed if it didn't happen), but with the large influx of gays and singles looking to adopt babies these days (because our birth moms are far more accepting of singles and gays as a parent or as parents for their babies today), the number of couples looking has increased, but I don't believe that the number of babies being put up for adoption has.
I'm not quite following you!(?)
That said, with that many couples out there hoping to adopt a newborn, there is no reason that a woman should feel the need to kill her baby by abortion because she thinks that he/she will not be wanted and/or have to struggle in this life to make it (any more than anyone else does, that is
Ectopic pregnancies are not in question, are very rare with many of them resolving via natural miscarriage.
The science has not come to that conclusion:
The reliable prediction of one's own feelings is problematic enough, let alone predicting the feelings of someone else. So, it's mainly about the mother's prediction of her own immediate suffering, not the child's suffering 10+ years out. The prediction that "eventually the child will suffer" is not only unfounded but as such ought to be considered as self-serving by a mother rationalizing the act of killing her unborn child.
If a woman does not want to endure the discomfort of a pregnancy or she believes the child born of an unwanted pregnancy will inordinately suffer then celibacy will absolutely prevent the unwanted event.
A sleeping newborn infant is also not conscious, feels no pain and is independently not viable. May we kill that child? If not, why not?
? So, in uncertainty one may kill another? The deer hunter sees something stirring in the bushes and fires his weapon. Later, upon approaching the bushes, the hunter sees he killed a human being, not a deer.
