Q for ‘Pro-Lifers’: How many kids have you ADOPTED from

[Kellerfeller]

58. Except

Except for the case of rape, she CHOSE to get pregnant. There are just too many cheap/easy ways to avoid getting pregnant.

If you don't want to get pregnant and do not use birth control, it is not an "accident" if you get pregnant.

And the foster stats are misleading. The age they left foster care is irrelevant. Some enter at age 15+. A more relevant stat is how long they stayed in care.

In Ohio, we tried to adopt. There were none available in the age range we were looking (5- 8) except for a couple with severe disabilities. If we had a probability of getting a kid is severe disabilities that was similar to the probability that happened in having our own kids, we might have still done it. But we didn't think it was fair to our other kids to choose a child that would consume that much time. It wasn't fair to the other kids.

After having a few foster kids stay with us for a few months at a time who then went back to their parents, we dropped out of the program after a few years because it was clear we weren't going to get one.

A black baby came up for adoption and there were a hundred people on the waiting list. My friends who have adopted did so from overseas (and the kids were handicapped) because there were none here.

Like the other poster said, it isn't a strong argument.