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Now, now, the only lives that "pro-life" people care about anyway are the unborn. Most don't care what happens to them outside the womb. Hypocrisy on both sides, really.
I know it's hard to defend anything as immoral and brutal as abortion on demand, but let's not make things up.
Conservatives support school vouchers, intact two-parent families and safe neighborhoods for every kids in America.
Contrasting that is Dear Leader ending the DC school voucher program that helped low-income students escape the dangerous and failed DC public school system.
Of course, no sooner than the program for the poor kids was ended, the Obama girls were sent to Sidwell.
Sure, I'm glad that my mother "chose life," but I'm even more grateful that my life beyond attachment to an umbilical cord (note the emphasis there) wasn't destroyed by, shall we say, a low-life degenerate who lacks the emotional capacity (and the financial resources) to efficiently assist in the development of a human being.
Now, now, the only lives that "pro-life" people care about anyway are the unborn. Most don't care what happens to them outside the womb. Hypocrisy on both sides, really.
Right - tell that to all the pro life families who have welcomed the "fruit" of unplanned, unwanted, inconvenient pregnancies - either naturally, or via adoption.
Like my own family - three adoptions and we're probably not done yet. My oldest son is very interested in adopting as well, though he did just get married so it's a few years down the road.
Right - tell that to all the pro life families who have welcomed the "fruit" of unplanned, unwanted, inconvenient pregnancies - either naturally, or via adoption.
Plenty of pro-choice families have done the same, including my own. The beauty of such families: they don't think they are morally superior to those who have legally chosen to terminate a pregnancy.
Well...there have been many times I wished my mother hadn't chosen life.
I was adopted at birth by an extremely dysfunctional family.
If she had chosen abortion...I assure you, I wouldn't have known about it.
Plenty of pro-choice families have done the same, including my own. The beauty of such a family is that they don't think they are morally superior to those who have legally chosen to terminate a pregnancy.
I would say that, overall, I too belong to one of these "pro-choice families," and I don't think that a single one of us would be unwilling to support a woman who chooses to carry a pregnancy to term and place it for adoption after birth.
But minus the willingness of an unfit woman (and I realize that many women are simply unaware of the fact that they are, indeed, unfit to have children) to offer her child for adoption, well, her failure to terminate her pregnancy is, in my opinion, grossly irresponsible.
It's also a very good thing that there are so many responsible couples in the world who welcome the opportunity to raise the child of a mother who wilfully surrendered the custody of her child for the sake of its own well-being.
Some women can go through with terminating a pregnancy, and some women can't; either way, a woman who either chooses to terminate her pregancy or legally surrend her child to a responsible party have not, in my view, destroyed the life of a viable human being.
I'm thankful to know that I would be in heaven now if it was diagnosed that I was going to live my live in pain or my older siblings would not have had a mother around. Kinda a win win situation as far as I'm concerned. Mom's a fiesty old fashioned common sense conservative.
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