You know what pro lifers...lets ban abortion because of rape. Now are you going to provide therapy for the victim...and provide care for that child. We have 10s of thousands of poor and abused children already that we do not take care of them the social services and foster parent system are joke. Some people have abortions because they can not afford a child. So they have the child and give it to the state which you are allowed to do. How many of you Christians are going to open your homes to those kids. So we ban abortion what are going to about those kids. We have already seen how social services and the foster care system takes care of the youngest of our poor and needy and most people do not give them a second thought. You want to force rape victims to give birth to there rapist kids...then you need to be willing to care of the victim and the child...if not...Shut up!
Hello Robert, when my wife and I signed up to be adoptive parents 20 years ago, we were hoping for a newborn, but we were told not to get our hopes up to high because adopting a newborn baby was such a long shot. The reason? Back then there were about 100 qualified couples
(IOW, couples looking to adopt a newborn who were already in the system) for every newborn child who was put up for adoption.
The difference is even greater today.
Rape victims make up less than 1% of the abortions that are performed each year, so not only is there a qualified, loving family hoping to adopt any/all newborns who are put up for adoption, birth moms are able to choose from a large number of qualified families and pick the couple/family who they believe is best suited to raise their child for them.
More than 100 to 1.
The problem has NOTHING to do with finding enough loving families/homes for all of the newborn babies who are put up for adoption, it's finding enough newborn babies to fill all of the homes of the families who want them!!
BTW, nothing you said above about social services/foster care has anything to do with a birth mom choosing adoption over abortion. You are attempting to conflate two different issues that have nothing to do with one another.
Concerning your subject matter however, how many children, who are living (or have lived) in poverty and/or are the victims of some kind of crime or abuse, do you believe you'd find who would say that they would have rather been aborted than given a chance to live?
Thanks!
--David
"A baby is cradled / carried in the womb of it's mother, to grow and be nurtured until birth. Each baby is a wholly separate person from it's mother: With different DNA, different fingerprints, with possibly a different blood type or the opposite sex. The baby is a person living within a person and not "the mother's body". The mom is appointed to care for the separate life she carries within her and once it's born, find a home for her baby, if she can't provide one." -- Melody Green
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