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Adoption v abortion?
When people say that it is worse to give your baby up for adoption than to have an abortion is their true concern the baby or the mother? I was just wondering because lately I have been hearing that adoption causes more trauma on the mother than abortion. But how is it easier to abort than to give your child to another family? I have also heard that some of the children end up being abused, but I along with many other adopted kids have ended up in a loving family. I personally believe that adoption is way better than abortion being that I am adopted but this is not a question to strike a debate between pro life and pro choice and whatnot but more of a question to see it from another perspective
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- zendallLv 74 years agoFavorite Answer
Adoption might be harder for the mother but doing the right thing isn't always the easy thing. Sure , some adopted kids will be mistreated but most won't. They can also raise the child. They can get child support, giver ment help (W if, food stamps) and charitable donations (diaper banks, clothes) to help them.
- ?Lv 64 years ago
Abortion is an alternative to pregnancy and childbirth; Adoption is an alternative to parenthood. You are trying to compare two very different things. Every woman is different and there just aren't any one-size fits all solutions to unintended pregnancies. Some women will be more comfortable having an abortion, some women will be more comfortable having and raising a baby, and others will feel adoption is their best option. As far as trauma, any time a woman is forced to do something against her wishes there will be trauma. That is why it is so important to let women make these difficult choices for themselves.
- PegathaLv 74 years ago
I'm pro-life, but I think I can understand the other side of it as well. Some women who've lost children to both abortion and adoption say that the abortion was easier for them to bear, since there was a finality to it. With adoption, they didn't know where their child was, if he was happy and well treated, or even if he was still alive. The loss was ongoing, and it tended to get worse instead of better with time.
- Anonymous4 years ago
Pregnancy is very hard on the woman. I see abortion as more of ending a pregnancy for some women. Banning abortion and forcing these women to be human incubators is wrong, too. I doubt many women forced to continue pregnancy would actually give up their chlld. The issue of abortion has been debated for at least the last 1000 years.
Societies and religions have OK'd abortion, banned abortion, OK'd abortion up to quickening, and back to restrictions again. Maybe this is a private decision that needs to be made by a woman and her doctor.
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- ?Lv 74 years ago
There is no valid, accurate, precise, empirically-derived trauma scale that can more-or-less scientifically answer your question.