Pro-Lifers: How many of you have adopted; especially babies with birth defects or diseases or addicted mothers

I have two adopted children... and yes, there are some medical problems...

my major obstacle to adopting... believe it or not.. is being disabled myself.

Let me tell you something you sanctimonious little b****. When my unmarried daughter was pregnant, one of the "pro-choice" nurses called her, after office hours,and told her that her baby had a birth defect. My daughter became hysterical. I met this nurse in the doctors office the next morning and confronted her about taking upon herself what the physian was supposed to do. When it all came out into the open, this nurse told an absolute LIE to my child. She did this in the hopes that my daughter would take her word for it and have an abortion. You know what? She didn't even lose her job. I wonder how many young pregnant girls and women she did this t

If you hadn't started slinging the self-righteous insults I wouldn't have even bothered to answer you. You reap what you sow. And by the way, I do know a Christian family who have adopted not one but five disabled children...and counting.

Well, you bring up a lot of good, valid points, which are very true, but you're missing the point that these babies don't choose to create themselves. They just happen, the natural result of sexual intercourse. So you can't defend the right of anyone, especially their own mother, to take their life away just because they are inconvenient. We pro-lifers do believe wholeheartedly in adoption. Some of us are hypocrites, but others who don't have the means to adopt donate money to adoption agencies and foster homes. I, personally, am a 19-year old single guy, so I don't have the means to adopt yet. I am still a virgin, though, so I'm doing my part.

Thank you! They should have to walk up to every 11 or 12 year old who got raped and say, "Look this book said you cannot get an abortion." And, then they should have to live with them to experience the hell they go through. It is so easy for them to sit on their high horses and sneer at people. I haven't ever been pregnant, but even I can see how I am not righteous enough to make this decision for someone. And, if the country puts restrictions on it, then people will be put through undue burden and every woman who falls down the stairs when pregnant will be put in jail!!!

You know that there are waiting lists of people wanting to adopt such children? There are people wanting to adopt Down's children, there are people wanting to adopt children with spina bifida....

The demand is bigger than the supply. And killing these poor children before birth doesn't help matters there.

I have every right--and a DUTY--to declare that the unborn should be allowed to live. They're people too. Who are you to decide that certain innocents should die!?

I have not adopted any. But there are waiting lists of people wanting to adopt kids that are willing to pay big money to adoption agencies.(which shows they are serious about getting a kid and will probably take good care of them and have the money to do it) I think a difference between you and me is that I see the kid as a child while it is in the womb, so I see killing it the same as killing a 1 or 2 year old.

I could in no way abort a little one seeing that of meant disorder- that's rather simply gambling God. I realize any one who had conjoined twins, and it used to be reccomended that she abort one to avoid wasting the opposite. She advised the health care provider that he used to be loopy. Both infants are alive and really healthful. They had been efficaciously separated in a while after delivery and feature a couple of well being disorders, however lead traditional lives. We rather are an illiberal folks if we could abort a little one seeing that it has defects. I idea that Americans had grown past apart from folks with disablitlies. I bet I am unsuitable.

Totally.

A friend of mine wrote a one-act play that, successfully and without bias communicated every side of abortion. But since it was a play the characters were deeply personal, like real people. One of the characters said just what you said, how can we bring these children into the world and not afford them, for no one else to adopt because they are deformed?

I entirely agree, beautifully said.

Pro-lifers are truly only pro-birth. After that it doesn't matter to them.

These addicted, physically handicapped children have a right to life. They are the most lovable of all children I believe, and if no one ever adopted them, it would be better for them than partial birth abortion, or to never have a life at all. But...guess what, loads of them are adopted or in loving foster homes which is better than the death you choose for them.

You said nothing about women's freedom to choose; instead, you focused on the tragedy of babies who are born defective. It sounds as though you favor the use of abortion to achieve eugenic goals. Congratulations may be in order. Neither the pro-Lifers nor the pro-Choicers have their thinking straight. The national socialists had the right idea. The national stock, itself, should be pruned and purged of the worst of its genetic defectiveness, and abortion is a useful tool for achieving a constitutionally sounder humanity.