Posted on 07/26/2022 3:02:47 PM PDT by Morgana
A common complaint that abortion enthusiasts have is that pro-life advocates never lift a finger to help single mothers in need. That’s a load of nonsense, and Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh is providing yet another example of how ridiculous this narrative is.
In an interview conducted Saturday at in Muskegon, Michigan during the Maize n’ Blue’s summer tour of the state, Harbaugh told ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski that if anyone within his family or program has a child they will not be able to support after it was born, he and his family would adopt the child to prevent it from being aborted.
“I encourage them if they have a pregnancy that wasn't planned, to go through with it, go through with it,” Harbaugh said. “Let that unborn child be born, and if at that time, you don't feel like you can care for it, you don't have the means or the wherewithal, then Sarah and I will take that baby."
Harbaugh’s interview comes after he attended the Plymouth Right to Life Dinner in Plymouth, Michigan just 10 days ago and unashamedly proclaimed his firm belief that life in the womb is to be protected and valued.
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“I believe in having the courage to let the unborn be born,” Harbaugh, who is Catholic, said. “I love life. I believe in having a loving care and respect for life and death. My faith and my science are what drives these beliefs in me. Quoting from Jeremiah, ‘Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart. I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.'”
If any progressive finds something wrong with Harbaugh now (as they predictably tried to shortly after his original comments), then they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel for a problem that doesn’t exist.
bet you 10 cents the conversation was all ready had.
>> more pro lifers need to do that. Adopt those babies. <<
A lot of pro-abortion propagandists point to the existence of foster children. But the states actually mandate that children who would be adopted first go through the foster-child program. The average foster child spends nearly a year and a half in foster care, which isn’t so much when you consider the adoption process (during which the child is technically in foster care) takes over a year.
217,000 children (out of 60 million nationally) are in foster care... including those in the process of adoption. (My math says that must leaves less that 80,000 NOT in the process of adoption, including those who ARE in the process of adoption but whose adoption won’t work out for some reason... but I’m deriving this from comparing the average time to adoption, 1 year, to the average time in the foster progran, 1 1/2 years.) Five percent in foster care will be in foster care for five or more years, mostly children whose criminal or health issues prevent them from being placed in more permanent homes.
In 2010, my brother in law was actively being recruited to both the Oregon amd Stanford football programs. Harbaugh coming all the way to Denver to have dinner at his parent’s house made all the difference to his decision. Great guy! They went on to 3 bowls after that, 2 with Coach Shaw.
Harbaugh stepping up. Where are he others? I’m talking an electronic rolodex with a million families willing to take in one or 2.. I once traveled through French Polynesia-the Marqueses. A happy group of people who intermarry. Lots of palsey victims. Raise them there. The Catholic Church has a big influence. They’d be happy.
"Kill the baby" has been the Democrat Prime Directive since about 1970.
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