How does abortion hurt people whose only choice is to adopt?
399201
I would assert that it unbelievably selfish to claim that abortion hurts persons that can only adopt. Abortion is about the parents and their ability to want or have a child. It certainly is not about some other third party. Although having  a child that someone else can adopt is good for those adopting. Having a person go through all the social, medical and legal issues just so SOMEONE ELSE can have the child is completely self-centered.
604365
Having had an abortion myself, years ago, I hope that your Sister was counseled before she went through with it.  No one counseled me back then so I didn't know what to expect.  Initially I was "fine" and relieved on the way home, but the more I thought about it, the worse I became.  All these years later, it's left an emotional scar that only other women who have had the same procedure done, can and do understand.  I still remember the date the abortion took place, the name of the Doctor, what the room looked like, what my due-date would have been, and how old my child would be right now.  Each holiday after the abortion took on a new feeling and a new meaning within me.   Each holiday would have been my child's "first holiday".  Each day became harder and harder for me.  Still, to this day, I can't look at a pregnant woman - it hurts too much.  Please be there for your Sister and to listen to her.  She may even have suicidal feelings - this is a very common occurrence as well as trying to get pregnant again to "replace her first child".  While she may look the same on the outside, please remember that she's now different on the inside.
242339
I do provide and improve alternatives. I'm a social worker that helps pregnant women for this reason.\n\nBut is killing a baby acceptable because of all your reasons? Expensive adoption? The birthmother doesn't pay, and there's a 10 million couple wait for an expensive adoption.\n\nFoster system? No need. Infants are easily adoptable, and apparantly these couples on the waiting list can endure the expenses. \n\nRegardless if your  examples were real or not, none of your reasons justify killing innocent unborn people.  \n\nPeriod.
358274
Hi are you talking about abortion as in getting rid of a baby? well if you are coming from someone who has had 2 it has it's pro's and con's it is helpfull if you are too young and not at all ready for a child but it can also have some very bad emotional effects and cause depression that is what happened to me. There is also the factor that it can cause infertility if you get a very bad infection which is highly possible if the instruments are not clean. At the end of the day it is a personal decission but i wouldn't reccommend it to anyone. Hope this helps
35530
You can even take this one step further. Most of those same people who are for abortion are also for assisted suicide and euthenasia of terminally ill people, or people who are too old to care for themselves. Many people think that you have to have a certain quality of life in order to deserve to live. Unplanned babies, the sick, the old, and the dying fit into their ideas of those who don't or won't have a quality of life that's productive. Oh yeah, and that includes another group of people...those who are in a coma and are only hooked up to feeding tubes. They have their feeding tubes pulled out, leaving them to starve to death. Many live for several weeks before dying, with the family watching the whole proceedure, in the name of saving money, but claiming they are giving their "loved" one death with dignity. What's so dignified about starvation? They spout off grand speeches about how they can't bear to see them suffer so much. And that their quality of life doesn't exist anymore. Then, they'll turn around and picket in front of a jail, where a convicted killer is ready to get the needle, dying in peace, having just eaten the greatest meal they'd ever had. Go figure. Abortion is just as senseless, with hundreds of couples waiting for years to adopt a baby. I know a few gals who got abortions...not because they were raped...or because it was a health risk to her or the baby...but because it was inconvenient. They were in school. They didn't want their parents to find out (after all, we just know that their parents will KILL them if they find out, right?). It was just easy to think of their baby as a blob of material, with no identity. I've heard people say that the baby isn't really human until they're born. Really? What is that thing inside of a pregnant woman, a fish, a monkey, a figment of their imagination? Have they really seen the amazing pictures of a baby inside of the mom? Looks human to me. I still have the ultrasound of my daughter and she looks like a baby to me. I guess it all depends on what you believe in...whether you believe in defending the defenseless or supporting the evil. No one has ever explained sufficiently to me the up side of abortion. There is none. Everyone loses. What a huge waste of a human life. <*)))><
847300
You have logic in your argument, and it makes complete sense.  People just want a reason to justify not having to deal with a baby, because they wanted to have sex more.  People need to speak up for, and fight for those that cannot fight for their own lives.  Unborn humans, which if left alone, will grow to become like you and I, did not ask to be made or born, but have the right to life like you and I.  I will always fight for them, and speak up.  There are little souls in there, and people don't realize how totally serious it is to stop a beating heart.
786173
Bad.  Every abortion kills an innocent human being:\n\nhttp://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html\nhttp://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html
403462
Do you really want to see back street abortions? My God what if your sister (God forbid) was raped and fell pregnant, what if the baby was so badly deformed it would spend the rest of it's life in and out of hospital having painful treatment.\n\nI have a friend who tried for years to get pregnant and when she found out she was she decided she didn't want it after all and had an abortion. People like that make me sick, she was just selfish and wanted a new toy.\n\nYou have to look at each case, everyone is different. I'd give the world to have a baby but I can't and it makes me sick when someone casually says "the baby, oh I changed my mind and got rid of it." I just think FFS why didn't you give it to me.
834736
Personally, I believe abortion to be wrong. I will say that to anyone. Most people don't have a problem with getting someone to at least stop and think before attaining an abortion. You always make a better decision when you think about all available options. BTW, I do help feed the hungry.
764018
Good question, good thinking.  I certainly don't like the idea of abortion, but the alternative possibility of the outcome is scary. \n\nFirst all more ignorant women will bring their babies to term and discard them or  kill them.  \n\nReopening of Orphanages and the financial burden in society. Would you like to spend your childhood parentless wondering why mom and dad didn't want you?   Pro Lifers say oh, people will adopt the babies, but the truth is, the majority of the people who are adopt are white.  The majority of the babies put up for adoption are black or hispanic.  The majority of white couples do not want to adopt any child other than white because people know that their children were adopted.  The other problem is that couples do not want to adopt in the United states because it is too easy for the birth mother to reclaim her child after she has given up rights.  You cannot imagine the mental horror.  \n\nSo - what I am saying, we SHOULD NOT punish or outlaw abortions.  To do so is inhumane.  Unfortunatly and contrary to popular belief, Not all life is meant to be.\n\nKnowing what I know now, I would rather be humanly killed than left in an orphanage to rot, or being pulled between different gaurdians.  \n\nWe need to promote birth control and the morning after pill so that a fertilized egg does not have time to develop into a fetus. \n\nLook at it this way:  Just because you have and mix all the ingredients to make a cake, if you don't bake it, it's still not a cake.
480376
1 and I honestly will still cry about it.  I was too young, had no idea what I was doing and the evil lady at Planned Parenthood made it seem like it was so easy and in a couple weeks I'd be hanging with my friends again.  It was extremely traumatic and painful.  Years later I saw a video of an ultrasound of an abortion.  It showed the fetus trying to get away from the suction instrument and then it stopped moving when the suction thing began tearing it apart.  I am not anti abortion, I just think it should be done with parental consent, in only the first 2 months of pregnancy and birth control after should be required by law.  There are so many options in adoption where you can see your baby grow up, be a part of their life and not have to be responsible.  I have 3 kids now and I should have had 4, it is very sad.
262191
I'm a democrat and social liberal who is against abortion, but not on religious grounds.  I just firmly believe that individuals should not have their opportunities, including life, denied based on their parent's choices.  Often opponents of abortion imply that the mother should just give her child up for adoption if she is not capable, monetarily, mentally, or physically, of providing an adequate life for the child.  With that said, there are hundreds of thousands of children, eighty-percent of whom are black, who live in horrendous conditions in foster care without ever being adopted by a loving family.  What leaves me dumbfounded is the fact that quite a few of these christian pro-lifers are also firmly against the notion of allowing gays the opportunity to provide loving homes based on their conviction in jewish folklore.  Point being, if you are against abortion you should at least favor providing the best care possible for these children.
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Baby girl this is a touchy subject really.  But it's true a lot of women use abortion as a form of birth control, they have all kinds of unprotected sex and when they turn up pregnant they just go and have the unborn killed and remove like if it was a tumor or something.  In some cases abortion might be acceptable but not for what these women wanna use it for.
511494
why do you have abortion as your only topic of "choice" today?  \n\nlooking back at your question history, i'd say that you have some issues.  \n\nseek help.
306203
yeah its bad to abort a foetus but its not bad to ciritsise others and make quick judgmenents based on sterotypes?? ive seen it all happen before because im gay, and find i am quickly judged. I love Jesus, and I know he loves me for who I am. Im not a bad person, I take care of my disabled brother and am working in the commmunity.\n\nIm not in support of abortion, id personaly rather adoption. but if its in the first trimester (or a RAPE victim!!!!) i can agree to some extent. each case is different cant be all catagorised in the one.
993687
you know most children born at 30 weeks survive are perfectly healthy. do NOT do it, the complications you will have morally, ethically and mentally will never go away. the complication you could have medically, to your body arent worth the risk. not to mention how could you just kill the baby that you feel moving inside you, responding to your movements and sound. his/hers heart already beating for many many months now. turn to Jesus for help, much better than any person or online advice you can get. please dont go the abortion route, it is unchangeable. and a lifetime of regret. also there is always family's who cant have children that would love to adopt. ill be praying for you.
1132474
Adoption is a loving choice. I would adopt if I had the financial means to do so. When a child is conceived by a young woman who thought she was old enough to handle the responsibilities of having sex, who is suddenly faced with the reality of raising a child, it takes a strong woman to admit that she is incapable of giving the child inside her the life it fully deserves. In instances that the government has taken the child from the parent(s) and is now placing the child for adoption, well, these are often cases where the parent(s) should have originally made the choice to place the child for adoption, but were too selfish or just plain blind, and couldn't see that they were unfit to raise a child. I think adopting a child is the most selfless and loving act a person could ever even consider. Raising another person's child is not an easy task to undertake. I would not go into an adoption thinking that life will be easy. You must raise that child to understand the role of birth parents and be willing to support them if they reach a point in their life that they desire to find their birth family. But, yes, I would adopt. In a heartbeat.