Here is something to ponder. If people within the gay community iwho are pro choice want to adopt, where will the children they want to adopt come from, if all the unwanted babies are aborted? This supports the argument of no child is an unwanted child. How? Because every child is wanted by someone. There is a couple who adopt children with special needs. To date they have 4 natural children and have adopted 23 special needs children. I would never want to do this, but these children are none-the-less wanted and loved.
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Not all unwanted kids are aborted. In 2003 there were 119,000 children up for adoption in the U.S.*, on top of that you can adopt from other countries, which seems to be growing popular. If not, you can always get a surrogate.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau, AFCARS
The couple with 27 children sounds heterosexual. Is this post actually about adoption or gays adopting?
Regardless I'd think that homosexuals supporting reproductive rights make perfect sense. In the end, we're all talkin about expressing love how we see fit, the consequences be damned or at least mitigated. We protect ourselves and our partners, but there's a stigma attached to both sides that's unnecessary and damaging.
Rushelle makes a point that not all unwanted babies are aborted. Sometimes pregnancy is the problem and leads to abortion; but I imagine if the pregnancy were not a problem, adoption would be pretty attractive. Having a baby is a choice, keeping a baby is a choice--something that often gets missed in the muddle is the fact that abortion is only one choice to a pregnant woman. It just happens to be the one in jeopardy right now.
This post is about gays supporting abortion and at the same time
wanting to adopt. Since there are 4,400 abortions each day in the U.S. then where will available adopted babies come from for gays. This is not whether I believe or don't believe in gays being able to adopt.
The question remains if we keep aborting 1/3 of pregnancies then there are less babies available for adoption, so why would anyone who wants to adopt also be for abortion?
Not all gay couples want to adopt, first off.
Second off, to understand, you have to look at the opposition against gay rights and the opposition against abortion as gender issues. Third-wave feminism has incorporated pretty much every major minority cause into its fold--gay rights, African-American rights, immigrant rights, animal and environmental rights, in addition to women's rights. As such, some members of these minorities have incorporated basic feminist principles into their political beliefs in a sort of mututal feed. Feminism looks on the right to choice as a necessary right for women in terms of controlling their own bodies and reproduction, the same as gay rights movements look at the rights to privacy and marriage in terms of controlling their outward social roles of their personal sex- and lovelives.
I don't think we need to worry about a shortage of babies available for adoption. State agencies are having trouble placing the children in their care period, so too many children is the problem, not too few. If you'll forgive the comparison, it's the same problem faced by animal shelters, and you don't see people adopting animals just to save their lives. Most people are against eunthanasia in the case of shelter animals, but the fact remains that overpopulation in the rescue centers in a major problem. Abortion in the human population allows women and/or families to stem the overflow of unwanted children in a way that affects them and not the general public and in a timely and humane manner before the zygote or embryo is cognizant, aware, or recognizable as a child. Personally I don't see any discrepancy.
That some gay people want to adopt kids is a far cry from being willing to use the police power of government to force a woman to continue an unwanted pregancy. Even IF one could guarantee that an unwanted child would be adopted (and that is certainly not something that you could guarantee), a basic belief in Liberty would not require (and in fact would reject) the connection you suggest.
On the contrary, I would turn the issue around and suggest that anyone who is against allowing gay people to adopt should be first asked, "how many kids have you adopted?"
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Arthur: Which is the greatest quality of knighthood?
Merlin: Truth. That's it. Yes. It must be truth, above all. When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
(From John Boorman's Excalibur)
Who can really do like this couple? A good deed cannot destroy the evil of the world