ok, i never meant to imply that all children put up for adoption will be taken home...i want to apologize early on if i have offended anyone b/c i only meant to express my opinion...i just now feel that my thoughts and ideals have been attacked b/c i had no footnotes to justify my belief that adoption is the better alternative.
i just think that because a woman does not want to keep her child, it does not mean she has to kill it, either. when a woman becomes pregnant, she has 3 options: to keep, to give up, or to abort. i do not understand why so many people decide upon the latter...there are millions of people out there wanting to adopt children. again, the exact number and statistics, i am sorry, but do not have. but i do know that there are people who are on waiting lists...and one can only assume that a waiting list implies that there is a demand for something there is not enough of. and yes, most of the people wanting to adopt a child want a neat and tidy white baby...and those are definitely in short supply. but that does not mean that the other children are any less significant, or wanted...or that anyone has the right to pre-determine whether the lives of the other children will be so horrible that we should take it upon ourselves to "save" them. AlphaChiS2K, i don't think it is any more "morally responsible" to take a life before it has a chance to live it. i was mentioning adoption as an alternative to abortion, that was all. i do not mean to seem as if i know all the numbers of foster care deaths and orphans in the world...but i do know that to let the person determine his/her own fate is better than someone killing him/her early JUST IN CASE.
i wish that the norm was for all pregnancies to be wanted ones, and for every child left without parents that there were parents to take it in...but there's not. reality is a harsh and cold place. i consider abortion to be murder, and i guess that is where pro-choicers and i clash...so in seeing it as murder, i don't think we should have it legalized. just like you don't want ted bundy able to kill innocent people, i don't want mothers killing their unborn. and it is not just the mother's body...it is her child's, too. i fail to understand why that is always overlooked. and aggieAXO, i DO plan on adopting my children, and will do so as soon as i am not still so dependant upon my own parents. if there was something that was in my power to save all the children put up for adoption or in bad foster homes believe me i would do it...until then, i am trying to save the lives of those who have yet to be born. there is no one who can say that a person born under bad circumstances cannot rise above it all and do great things. how many people do any of you know who are adopted? i know several, and i count my blessings that their biological mother had the courage and strength to have them and then give them up. every person you know has an impact on your life in some way or another...why deprive people of that simply because you THINK they will have a miserable existance? i don't think it's "socially responsible" to deny society of a potentially great person.
Monica
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