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Another victory for the helpless unborn, the most vulnerable in our society.
There are more than 100,000 children in foster care. If they have a disability, are older than 6, or are in a sibling group, they have very little shot of finding a permanent home - even if they are available for adoption. They are kicked out of the system with very little life skills or money at 18. Many become single parents themselves or turn to drugs, alcohol, and crime. Only about 3% of former foster kids ever graduate from college. That's not a victory.
How many helpless foster children have you given a stable, loving home to?
There are more than 100,000 children in foster care. If they have a disability, are older than 6, or are in a sibling group, they have very little shot of finding a permanent home - even if they are available for adoption. They are kicked out of the system with very little life skills or money at 18. Many become single parents themselves or turn to drugs, alcohol, and crime. Only about 3% of former foster kids ever graduate from college. That's not a victory.
How many helpless foster children have you given a stable, loving home to?
Wait, let me take this one:
Spoken in the voice of a pro-life zealot "But, but, but one requires special skills to take in a child with a disability, and many of these children are teens with emotional issues".
Translation:
"I don't want to adopt a black teen, I want a cute white newborn baby".
Another victory for the helpless unborn, the most vulnerable in our society.
But you can't deny that's it's not a victory for the helpless unborn when a pregnant woman is driven to finding a means to getting an abortion on her own, which may mean going to the Internet. How people who support banning abortion absolutely refuse to see this just makes me sick to my stomach.
Spoken in the voice of a pro-life zealot "But, but, but one requires special skills to take in a child with a disability, and many of these children are teens with emotional issues".
Translation:
"I don't want to adopt a black teen, I want a cute white newborn baby".
Or "Why don't the mothers just have some personal responsibility and raise the kid/adopt/not get pregnant in the first place? I shouldn't have to raise their kids!"
I know one woman who did just that.. and after years of being viciously abused by his MARRIED but teen mother and watching the drug addiction of his father, my boyfriend and his two younger sisters were put into a system where they never had stability, love, affection, and often traded family for abusive (emotionally, physically, and sexually) transitional or group homes. My boyfriend is 28 and I feel like his mother a lot of the time by trying to teach him how to trust people and how to do things that most people have guardians teach them as children (i.e. how to cook, how to set up a budget, financial basics). One sister is 24 (a year younger than myself) and has had 5 children plus who knows how many abortions. That's what happens when you learn from your group home that sex is the only way to get respect or love. The other sister is a few years younger, already has hepatitis and on the road to kidney failure from drug use, and is in rehab for heroin for the 3rd time since I met my boyfriend a year and a half ago.
I hate that abortion happens, but I hate our foster care system even more. Until we address the 100,000 kids who are in the system TODAY, not to mention the thousands of other children who are at risk for the system. These are living, breathing kids that we are failing and their only crime was being born to parents who never should have had them.
Yet another example of attacking the sympton rather the problem, does anyone actually believe that abortions will stop when these clinics close, these women will find another source and it may not be the best of conditions. But hey a great victory for the pro-life group, go out and celebrate but you have done nothing to address the original problem.
How lovely. I had a link right on LifeNews to click to sign a petition to repeal Obamacare. I'm truly hoping that was a random pop-up and not something the anti-abortion movement is pushing for. (You can let us know janelle.)
As it is I am convinced the zealots live with their heads in the clouds having absolutely no idea how poverty affects people.
They don't want abortion. But they also don't want the kids who are already here to have access to medical care if they have to help fund it. (Feel free to correct me if the anti-abortion movement has built a system of free child-health care clinics in the last 40 years. If they have, they need to advertise more. And let everyone know if the building that was closed is converted into a free clinic/child care facility/food bank/teen center.)
Last edited by DewDropInn; 02-02-2013 at 03:39 PM..
How lovely. I had a link right on LifeNews to click to sign a petition to repeal Obamacare. I'm truly hoping that was a random pop-up and not something the anti-abortion movement is pushing for. (You can let us know janelle.)
That right there is the problem with the Tea Partiers.
Against abortion to keep alive a zygote, yet let the needy living among us go without healthcare... or as in the GOP 2012 primaries .."LET HIM DIE!!!! YEA!!!!"
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