Should all abortions be illegal?
Here's an interesting comment I read on a blog by a blogger in regards to the above question, 'Should All Abortions Be Illegal?'
The way unwanted children were dealt with BERORE abortion was legalized, was through adoption. Unwed mothers today are encouraged to keep a child rather than to abort it. The reason they abort is because they DON'T want to keep the child! And when they they keep it they often end up on welfare, putting aside educational or vocational goals.
Releasing a child for adoption was once considered an "unselfish" and loving act.
Today with all the aids to fertility, fewer couples "have" to adopt. Some still want to...but they must meet requirements of age, income etc that even many good natural parents cannot meet. Some travel to a foreign land with all the expense and red tape to find an adoptable child.---Donna66 on 12/5/10
What do you guys think of her answer?
The way unwanted children were dealt with BERORE abortion was legalized, was through adoption. Unwed mothers today are encouraged to keep a child rather than to abort it. The reason they abort is because they DON'T want to keep the child! And when they they keep it they often end up on welfare, putting aside educational or vocational goals.
Releasing a child for adoption was once considered an "unselfish" and loving act.
Today with all the aids to fertility, fewer couples "have" to adopt. Some still want to...but they must meet requirements of age, income etc that even many good natural parents cannot meet. Some travel to a foreign land with all the expense and red tape to find an adoptable child.---Donna66 on 12/5/10
What do you guys think of her answer?
Jen, as a child who was not raised by my birth parents, I am appreciative that my birth mother did not abort me. I still believe that there are quite a lot of couples with fertility issues who want to adopt. In fact, I know of two couples who did adopt babies. There are even some couples without ferility issues, albeit fewer in number, who want to adopt. Adoption is a preferable option to abortion for both the mother and the child, given there is no health threat to the mother. Although people don't readily admit it, it has been demonstrated that abortion emotionally impacts the mother.