Unborn child held for ransom from you and I

[twosid]

Not endorsing this.

As happens to many young couples, my girlfriend and I have found ourselves confronted with a decision to make about having a child, and we're not sure what to do. There are many options available to us, and a difficult evaluation of the responsibilities and obligations, as well as the joys, that come with raising a child.

Our two real options are either having and raising the child, or aborting. While we'd like to think that adoption is a viable option for us, my girlfriend doesn't believe that she'd be able to give up a child after giving birth to it, and that's not something I'm going to pressure us into doing. We also don't want to be subconsciously resentful of a child that we kept when we weren't ready for it. If we're not ready to raise it, we're not going to bring a baby into the world.

Because of the state we're in, we have about three months to make a decision one way or the other. Right now, we're leaning toward abortion. We're simply not financially secure enough to ensure that we can bring up a kid in the environment it would deserve. It's not that we're poor, we just don't have the stability that we think having a baby necessitates.

Please don't mis-understand, it's not that we _want_ to abort the baby. Although neither of us is particularly pro-life, we don't want to have to have an abortion. We think we'd be pretty good parents, and we both would enjoy raising a kid. We're both from pretty good stock, well educated and intelligent. We'd be able to raise the child in a good environment, teach it right, keep it out of trouble, and introduce a new productive member of humanity to the world. Our kid won't grow up and rob you.
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[SpeekerOfTruth]

That's sick, such people who desire money over life should not be helped. Let them do as they wish...surely, they will have their proper reward. God leaves no one unpunished, and His rewards are always just. One thing is for sure, such monstrosities as these people do not deserve a child, but if God wills it, let it be so. If they abort, may the guilt rend them apart, destroy their peace, and pursue them rest of their days until such time as they repent. May the severe torment of this grevious sin follow them everywhere, that they might be spared that eternal torment which justly awaits them. Let it be so, if it accords with God's will. If these people are doing a scam to steal money, may they be accursed forever in your site, O Lord, and not find rest until they repent of their evil deed. Destroy and crush them into absolute desolation, bring them to contrition and save them. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

 

[RoseofLima]

Hmmmm label me skeptical, but sounds like a scam to me. Either you keep the baby or you don't...it blows my mind that someone could abort their baby but not offer the baby up for adoption--with the argument that they don't think they could give the baby up after giving birth. What exactly do they think happens in an abortion??

 

[Tigg]

Stupid bunch of people. I will not be blackmailed because they are expecting a child. What horrible people they are. They have $4,551. There ought to be a law against what these ijiots are doing.

-IMO-
Peace

 

[twosid]

Hopefully it is illegal in some way. I've notified several news outlets, the FBI and PayPal.

 

[Da_Funkey_Gibbon]

Define scam - or they're just trying to make a point. Either way it's in extremely bad taste (and if, God forbid, it's real it's in even worse taste), and it's even sadder when you think there are people who are going to cough up.

 

[LightHearted]

Wow, that's sick. I hope that the page is gone soon, and that law enforcement talks to this couple soon.

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

We 've already spend more time on this then it deserves.

 

[NiteClerk]

Wow. I wish that I had $50,000 cash on hand before the birth of my first child.
I vote scam.