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Regarding the issue of adoption and how women deal with it, I talked with a woman who was in college in the 70's. She said she had friends who got pregnant and gave the baby up for adoption and others who had abortion. She said the emotional damage was FAR worse for the women who gave the baby up for adoption. Now, this can't be the only reason to have abortion be legal, but the health and welfare of the mother needs to be extrapolated out more than if she will or will not die in childbirth. I am all for adoption, but I think it's a unicorns pooping rainbows answer to the abortion problem. Would I counsel a woman to consider it, yes. But once the decision is made, then the world needs to get off her back.
And for the record, I also support euthanasia because there are times when death is the better choice. At both ends of the life spectrum. If you believe in the life of the soul, reincarnation and/or heaven, you have to accept that the soul goes on, even in cases of abortion and euthanasia.
And since the science can never be settled about what constitutes life, then it will only boil down to belief. I BELIEVE it's life at viability. But until my belief can be proven through science, then it has to be kept to personal choice.
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