dannyboy
From the promised LAND
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that my dear friend is the essence of discrimination. you cant have or even apply for the job because ....(fill in the blank).
as to the relationship between abortion and adoption, there is none. women that get and abortion dont want some stranger adopting their child, so they kill it off. remember solomon, the two mothers and the single baby?
so those that get an abortion would not give up the baby in the first place. even after some of the botched abortion babies survive, the right of the mother not to have the baby supersedes the right to life of the now born baby, so life support can be withheld from the baby, "allowing" it to die.
ever seen one of these "babies" laying in the bottom of a commode after being so severely "salted" that the "mother" expels them out? and the nursing staff is instructed to take the patient back to the bed and take all the time needed to make her comfortable before going back to empty out the toilet?
on to adoption, something i do know a lot about.
the problem with there not being many to adopt is simple. most newborns in foster care are are well on their way to being teenagers before adoption is available. and not too many people are interested in adopting a 7-12 year old that has been bounced around their whole life.
reason? the feds think that all women that have children care deeply about their offspring, and if given help, will turn their lives around and once again care for their kids. and the whole foster care system is geared to the focus of family preservation, instead of making sure the children get a stable family to live in.
so typically, a child is removed, placed into foster care. as long as the parent shows up for a couple visits a year, typically 20 minutes on the kids birthday, and about that long for christmas, the state can not nor will they proceed with termination proceedings. and even when they do, it usually takes many years to get it finalized, all the time the child is bounced around the system with no roots to hold them anywhere.
the big reason for the problems to is funding. the state gets money from the federal gooberment, therefor having to abide by their rules. after a child reaches 7 years of age, the child is considered a special needs child/adoption, and the state gets a ton more money, and gets that money until the child turns 18, or 23 if still in school. if they adopt the child out before the child turns 7, the state gets nothing. so the emphasis is not the welfare of the child, but instead extra funding for the department and themselves.
that is why, in tennessee, the number of foster children has gone up from 6000 to last i heard, 24000+ in foster care. a great many are multiple siblings and older children, and children with "issues".
so yeah, it is a lot easier to go overseas where a mother living in abject poverty wants more for her child, even if it means giving the child up and never seeing it again.
arnt you sorry you got me started?
d
on things we have NO personal experience in (us guys anyway). I've seen abortion videos and it is a disgusting practice in general I believe. However there is a place for them I believe. Rape, incest, and the mother/baby survival factor. Abortion as a means of birth control is disgusting in the extreme. Third term abortion is the most ridiculous thing in the world. A babies survival is almost guaranteed these days beyond the third term. So the question becomes when does a fetus become a child? Without a doubt, 99% of all fetuses become babies unless their still born, then it's a corpse.
