If you are "pro-life" and have no adopted children...

[Xipe Totec]

SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[pnwmom]

1. Even if you have adopted children, same thing goes.

Someone who wanted to adopt a baby would have a vested interest in being against abortion.

[kwassa]

3. well, not exactly.

I am pro-choice with a wonderful adopted daughter.

[gollygee]

4. Yes and

it is not the responsibility of poor women to breed for rich women.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Absolutely 100% with you. But the issue is the issue already here.

Take care of the backlog of unwanted children.

When you're done. If ever you will be done, we'll hear what you might have to say, if reality hasn't changed your mind by then.

[Xipe Totec]

5. One at a time... one at a time.

Some is not all.

NOBODY unwilling to adopt, has the moral standing to talk about abortion.

And anybody who is "pro-life" and willing to ADOPT, has the moral responsibility to adopt more children, until there are no more orphans left to adopt.

Only then, when every single living child still on this earth has parents, do they have the moral standing to speak for those yet unborn.

Take care of the backlog.

Then we'll talk.

[Proud liberal 80]

2. Republicans are only pro life when the baby is in the womb

But once he or she is in the real world they against everything that would benefit the baby be it education, health care, job, voting rights, etc...

[Xipe Totec]

7. That's the hypocrisy that needs to be exposed. nt

[freshwest]

12. +1,000. In fact, they need to adopt until they're as impoverished as the poor they look to deny help

[Scuba]

8. I'm pro-choice and have two....

... and I'll bet I'm not an anomaly.

[Xipe Totec]

9. I'm pro choice also and have one adopted child

besides my two children that are flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood.

You and I have a higher moral ground to speak from, to defend a woman's right to choose.

We know the burden, the toil, the pleasure, and the satisfaction of pulling even one child from the hell of an unwanted pregnancy brought to term.

Kudos to you!

[Scuba]

10. Being Dad is the hardest job I ever had. And the most satisfying.

[stuntcat]

11. 40,000 people DIE each day of starvation

but "pro-life" only means us 1st-worlders making copies of ourselves. To me Humanity is lost and sick.

[Th1onein]

13. Pro-life here, Xipe Totec, and I haven't adopted any children.

And probably never will. But thanks so much for your comments.

Not every pro-lifer CAN adopt. Just as every pro-lifer can't wage peace all of the time, or campaign against the death penalty constantly. We do what we can, though. Just as pro-choice people do, in support of their beliefs.

And, no, I'm not a Christian. Not in any way, shape, or form.

I don't think it's right, as you can probably discern, to tell anyone to shut up just because of their inability, or even their unwillingness, to do what YOU think should be required of them, in terms of their actions, or inactions.