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Originally Posted by VRM
Dan, You missed the point.
Let's not kill babies - lets just wait for them to die as small children because their parents cannot afford health care for them. You have no problem with that, right? As long as we save the babies we can ignore the kids. 
VRM,
Have you ever heard of adoption? If the parents are financially not able to provide the baby with the things the child needs to have a healthy childhood, putting the child up for adoption is an option, plenty of folks out there that can't bear children that would love to adopt one. Abortion is NOT the answer to someone's irresponsible actions.
Dan's not missing your point, you, sir, are missing the point.
Of course, this is just my opinion.  |
Juggernaut,
Nope you (and Dan) missed the point - you need to read the statistics. There are plenty of kids available for adoption already. The problem is that most of them are black and American parents do not want to adopt black kids. They would rather go to China or Russia to get kids there.
In the meantime there are around 100,000 minority kids waiting for adoption right now - most of whom will never be adopted. There were about 1.2 million abortions in the US in 2005. In that same year 51,000 kids were adopted out of foster care in the US (there were more kids that were adopted from outside the US). The total number of adoption in the US does not even hit 20% of the total abortions. Roughly 900,000 abortions (3/4) are performed for financial reasons. Let's just say that half of them are kept by the mother despite the financial situation - that leaves 450,000 kids about 2/3 being minorities) to put up for adoption - in addition to the ones already available. That is more than 3 times the total number of kids adopted - and this is every year.
For those of you that whine about socialism, abortion, and gays adopting - what are you going to do about all those kids? They will become wards of the state, and that means that you and I are going to pay for them. It's cruel and harsh to say so, but you guys are just not doing the math on this. The reality of the situation does not change simply because you think abortion is morally wrong.
We need to make some fundamental changes in this country, and many conservatives are blocking progress on a number of issues. You want more stable families? Let gays marry and adopt. You want less abortions? Promote birth control side by side with abstinence. You want to avoid ever having another Obama get elected? Keep your own guys aware that they have to govern for everyone - not just the extreme right wing.
Steve