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No regrets for choosing love over abortion
Indianapolis Star ^
| Jan 22, 2004
| J. Scofield
Posted on 01/22/2004 2:53:26 PM PST by redangus
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This letter to the editor appeared in our local paper today. I thought it was very poignant and gave a perspective that is seldom examined. In honor of the millions of babies who have died in this country over the last 31 years I wanted to share this message.
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posted on
01/22/2004 2:53:28 PM PST
by
redangus
To: redangus
In 1968, I was born to a very young teenage mother. I thank God every day that because she couldn't take care of me she chose to give me up for adoption rather than abort me. For no other reason greater than this am I against abortion.
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posted on
01/22/2004 2:57:27 PM PST
by
egarvue
(Martin Sheen is not my president...)
To: redangus
I was choosing for my other children. This point is rarely examined or taken seriously by anti-abortion activists. While abortion can certainly be a "selfish" decision, it is not necessarily so, and plenty of women make the decision to have an abortion for the benefit of the children they already have, and are having trouble providing with a decent upbringing.
To: redangus
Great letter! Thanks :-)
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:00:28 PM PST
by
Marie Antoinette
(Happily repopulating the midwest since 1991!)
To: GovernmentShrinker
how dare you bring some reasoning into the morass of propaganda that compromises the abortion debate.
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:01:02 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: egarvue
God bless your mother, and hugs and blessings on your adoptive parents. :)
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:01:18 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: egarvue
Amen!
To: GovernmentShrinker
I'm sure if the children were asked, they would prefer the already developing brother or sister.
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:02:47 PM PST
by
Marie Antoinette
(Happily repopulating the midwest since 1991!)
To: GovernmentShrinker
and plenty of women make the decision to have an abortion for the benefit of the children they already have, and are having trouble providing with a decent upbringing. Sophie's Choice?
Your kids are hungry. Which one are you going to pop into the stew pot?
Considering that there are plenty of people ready willing and eager to adopt babies this argument has no basis in reality.
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:05:33 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(...and thousands of cute furry kittens are trampling everything in their path)
To: GovernmentShrinker
plenty of women make the decision to have an abortion for the benefit of the children they already have, and are having trouble providing with a decent upbringing. ,,, ah, it's for the children! If it's a resource management issue, why not kill the child they like least and let the oncoming one have a chance to please them more? Either way, it's murder.
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
The adoption system needs to be reformed in America. Make it more popular to adopt instead of spending thousands in IVF clinics. Make it more popular to adopt babies in this country would help.
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:08:40 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: All
To the birth moms of my two oldest children:
I'd like to extend a very special thank you to the two wonderful women who chose to carry my two oldest children and give birth to them, rather than killing them before they were born. I'd like to say this to each of you.
I may never know you, but you will never know how much joy and love these children have brought into my life.
If I could see you today, I'd hug you, thank you, and introduce you to 2 wonderful young people. They are kind and compassionate to others, are intelligent and excel in school, and bring smiles to the faces of everyone they meet.
They have both known you exist, and both know that you are a very special woman. They know you carried them with love throughout your pregnancy, and then broke your heart giving them up. They know that it wasn't because you didn't love them; if you hadn't loved them they would not have been born. They know that you carried them to birth BECAUSE you loved them.
Thank you for your choice. If you could see them now you'd know you made the right one. I know you made the right choice. These two young people know you made the right choice too.
To: Lil'freeper
*ping*
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:14:11 PM PST
by
big'ol_freeper
("When do I get to lift my leg on the liberal?")
To: cyborg
Make it more popular to adopt babies in this country would help. It would. I know that adoption seems very off-putting to many people, perhaps because it involves social workers and seems to open people's private lives to scrutiny. I would bet that more presentations from successful adoptive families in friendly venues (like churches) would help.
To: StillProud2BeFree
If I could see you today, I'd hug you, thank you, and introduce you to 2 wonderful young people. We see our daughter's birth-mom often. In fact, she called today to ask for copies of some of the pictures we took at the Christmas party we held with her family. Open adoption is really the way to go.
To: madprof98
Take government interests out of it, take people and their dumb social agendas out of it,etc. I am for private,open adoptions... A lot of people don't adopt because they don't want their lives being an open spectacle.
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:20:18 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: redangus
Thank you for posting this!
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:28:45 PM PST
by
mamaduck
(I follow a New Age Guru . . . from 2000 years ago.)
To: redangus
This was a great letter, thanks for posting it. It is very poignant and true to life. I especially liked this part "As it turned out, I got very little help. But hey, I'm not complaining,..." That is a very true-to-life statement, it is not possible to doubt a word after that. I also liked this "Kahlil Gibran said it well in his famous poem, "Your children do not belong to you. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself." Very true, and I've never heard it before.
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:30:21 PM PST
by
jocon307
( The dems don't get it, the American people do.)
To: cyborg
The adoption system needs to be reformed in America. Make it more popular to adopt instead of spending thousands in IVF clinics. Make it more popular to adopt babies in this country would help. You bet ya!
One of the first steps would be to reform the foster care system so those kids can be adopted. The system in my state has the lovely habit of actually removing foster children from homes where they feel the kids are bonding. As for adopting you can forget about it, even if they kill one of their children parental rights will not be terminated and after they get out they are reunited with their non-murdered children. I get so frustrated some times I could spit.
Another thing that needs to be done is, "All adoptions are final 30 days after the papers go through." People are scared to adopt because the birth parent can come back up to two years later and take the child back.
This is one reason why overseas adoptions are popular.
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:41:51 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(...and thousands of cute furry kittens are trampling everything in their path)
To: redangus
A choice implies a clear mind, free of fear and with full knowledge of the price I would have to pay.Which is EXACTLY what the abortionists DO NOT want.
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:50:55 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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