A womans right to choose what she wants to do with her body, I wish many women would consider the option of adoption. I was put of up for adoption by my 15 year old mother, who could have chosen to have an abortion but luckily she did not. I know it isnt always a feasible choice but still
simplyobsessed no I could contact her and reach out now I might soon but just finished school and such and now applying for jobs so focusing on that first
Wow, I'm just a shade off. My mother had planned to give me up for adoption. It was pretty much said and done, and I was going to a distant branch of my family. Then when I was born, she changed her mind. She got pregnant again the next year, and knowing she wouldn't be able to give the child up for adoption, she had the abortion. It was a different father than mine. The father actually did want to keep the baby but had no choice as my mother left him 100% out of the decision. The issue is so enormously complicated for me that it's hard to know how I myself feel about it. I feel very strongly pro-life AND pro-choice. :/
An older lesbian friend of mine shared a quote that helped me kind of decide to land on the pro-choice side.... something like:
Roe vs Wade was not the beginning of abortions, it was the beginning of women surviving them.
im going to jump off the multi for a second and disagree with you here. Unless you have a family waiting in the wings, agreeing to take the child day 1 after it pops out of your birthing area, adoption is NOT a viable option. The foster system (in the US, at least) is deplorable for a first world country, And once that baby is done being shiny and pretty, less people want to adopt it. Then these kids are stuck in broken foster homes mostly until they turn of age.
yeah what allcaps said. Plus that means the woman still has to be pregnant. At some point shes gonna have to stop working becuase shes too pregnant. maternity leave just isnt that great in a lot of countries so carrying the pregnancy could really hurt the woman's finances.
allcaps I never once said adoption is always the more viable option all I said is that I wish more woman took that option if time and finances allowed them. I am well aware that they still have to go through the pregnancy and I also know maternity leave here sucks. So I didnt need an explanation on that but thanks for it MichelleObama . All I sai is that I am glad my mother did not abort me, and that if the woman can that she should give the baby up for adoption, if she wants to choose to abort it that is her decision as well so I dont really see what you are disagreeing too allcaps but go off I guess?
I have a few friends who were adopted but I personally wouldn't want to ruin my body or have that child get abused from home to home until they're kicked out of the system.
That being said, I try do everything in my power to prevent pregnancy, so I don't have to go thru that.
