Thank God I Was Adopted, Not Aborted

Townhall.com ^ | May 7, 2022 | Michael Reagan

[Kaslin]

Forget inflation, forget Ukraine, forget the crashing stock market.

Thanks to a troublemaking leak by some jerk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion is dominating the front pages of our media again.

The leak of the first draft of a majority decision by the Supremes to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion in the U.S., has reignited the abortion issue overnight.

Pro-life, pro-abortion, pro-choice, anti-abortion….

Abortion is a hot and ugly moral and political issue that is always smoldering under the national landscape like a coal mine fire that can never be put out.

But the prospect of the court deciding to strike down Roe v. Wade has sent angry protestors into the streets and sparked a thousand fiery editorials.

Liberal politicians, naturally, are calling for the elimination of the Senate filibuster or the packing of the Supreme Court to protect Roe v. Wade from conservative judges.

The abortion case before the high court, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is from the state of Mississippi.

It doesn’t outlaw all abortion in Mississippi, as you might think if you only watched TV, but it forbids it after the 15th week of pregnancy.

As Supreme Court Justice Alito, the author of the leaked draft, says, reasonably, there has to be a point during a pregnancy where you say, “No, you can’t abort the child.”

From the uproar this week you’d think Mississippi is trying to employ woman-crushing abortion rules handed down from caveman times.

But other states already have laws with similar cutoff times to protect the unborn from murderous late-term abortions.

And though you rarely hear it from the liberal media, abortions are far more available and much easier to get at a later time in America than around the world.

Only six other countries beside the U.S. allow on-demand abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy: Canada, China, Netherlands, North Korea, Singapore and Vietnam.

If Roe v. Wade is overturned because it was a poorly reasoned and constitutionally faulty decision, as many legal scholars have argued for decades, you won’t see me shedding any tears.

I’m pro-life for moral, religious and selfish reasons.

I’m glad I wasn’t aborted by my unmarried birth mother and was instead adopted in 1945 by Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman.

As I’ve written before, I’m also glad my adoptive mother Jane Wyman and my stepmother Nancy Reagan were both adopted as infants and not aborted.

I often think about how different the world would have been if all three of us had not been adopted but aborted.

So here we are fighting again over abortion, which seems to never go away.

What does go away – forever — are the children who are aborted every year and never get the chance to be adopted.

That’s why, when I speak to pro-life groups, I always point out that there are 400,000 foster kids in this country looking for forever parents.

Any Christian looking to adopt a child ought to be looking to bring one of them home.

Also, states need to pass laws to make it easier and faster to adopt American kids, because one reason children are aborted instead of being carried to term and placed for adoption is that governments have made it so difficult to adopt.

At the same time parents – particularly fathers – need to be more like Jesus Christ.

Just as Christ died for all our sins, fathers in the USA need to get on that Cross for their young daughters who get pregnant.

Instead of driving your daughter out of the house because of her mistake, or because you don’t want to be embarrassed by her pregnancy, why not embrace her with a loving heart as Christ would?

Supporting your pregnant daughter would be a small but important step parents could take to reduce the number of abortions.

Instead of chasing her to the nearest abortion clinic, she’ll be loved by you at home and bear a child that might grow up and change the world for the better.

[Tennessee Conservative]

All of the abortion issue hits close to home for me. Our daughter got pregnant at 21. She was not married. She was old enough to know better. She was taking antibiotics while on the pill. Still, she knew better.

She was in a panic and was talking about an abortion. We threw every threat we could think of at her to stop it. Finally, we let her know that she would have help. We gave her an acre of the farm to put a mobile home on. My husband retired early to be a stay-at-home grandfather and took care of our beautiful granddaughter. She had support.

Now, she is beyond happy that we threatened and offered support. She loves her daughter and can’t imagine life without her. We can’t imagine life without her.

So many abortions stem from the breakdown of the family. When I was a teenager in the 70’s, my dad threatened all of us with beating us to death slowly if we got pregnant. LOL We believe him, at the time. None of us got pregnant. I had a dad. He listened in on our phone calls. He followed us and spied on us on our dates. We had a curfew. We were afraid of the coat hanger that was used to abort at the time. We had a lot of reasons not to get pregnant. With the breakdown of the family, abortion on demand, no need to take responsibility, and no fear of consequences, abortion has become “healthcare”, and it’s not.

I will never support abortion.

[FES0844]

You dad sounds a lot like mine. I can still hear him (& my mom) drilling into us girls that “the family name and reputation was more valuable than gold” We were not permitted to disgraced it. It worked for us!

[Tennessee Conservative]

There were three girls and two boys in my family. It took the three of us years to figure out why we were so controlled while the two boys weren’t. If I had a date, my sister had to go with us. If she had a date, I had to go with her. We didn’t date until we were 16. Dad was really strict! We were grown and married before we figured all of that out. LOL

The boys had rules, as in respecting women, but they weren’t followed and watched like we were.

[Deaf and Discerning]

"Abortion is a hot and ugly moral and political issue that is always smoldering under the national landscape like a coal mine fire that can never be put out."

Yup... It reminds me of my college course "Persuasion" I had in the 1990's. The classroom was set up like a court room, half the class "plaintiff", and half "defense". The class would first openly discuss and choose a topic of what type of case to argue about.

But the instructor first made it clear that the only topic forbidden to choose was "abortion". He said that abortion discussions always became an extremely loud and wild. And as a "bailiff", the instructor had an awful time keeping things cool in the room.

[FES0844]

Protective, loving dads. We were blessed.

[Man from Oz]

My wife was born and adopted by 2 loving parents in 1961. I thank God her 17 year old birth mother chose life.

[Tennessee Conservative]

One of the pro-choice crowds’ arguments is that nobody wants to adopt. I see the opposite, that there are not enough babies to adopt. I’m happy that your wife’s 17-year-old birth mother made the right decision.

[Man from Oz]

I thank God daily for this every day.

[Toespi]

Thanks so much for sharing. Your post reminded me so much of a segment on Dr. Laura’s (Schlesinger) radio show years ago. A woman called in for advice, her daughter was unmarried and pregnant and wanting to give the baby up for adoption, she just couldn’t imagine an abortion. The would be grandmother was beside herself, desperate for her daughter to end the pregnancy, as it would ruin her life, college and career. PLUS she stated to Laura that it would be horrible to go through life knowing she had a grandchild somewhere.
So Dr. Laura dropped the biggest bomb I have ever heard. She said, “let me get this straight, you would rather your grandchild be dead than knowing it was alive, loved and wanted with another family”? She went on to say, “Your daughter should get as far away from you as she can.”

[Tennessee Conservative]

Amen to that! I can’t imagine any grandmother being like that.

My daughter was also working full time and in college. She was just thinking about all she might have to give up if she had the baby. We let her know what she might give up if she didn’t. She is an only child and in line to inherit this big farm in the hills of TN. She loves the farm. Abortion, no farm. She decided to have the baby and keep the farm. :-) Now...she dotes on that girl. Her entire will to abort ended once the baby moved. She admitted that we did right to “force” the issue.

She finished college and has a job making over $100,00 a year. She has been married for 4 years now to a wonderful man and he loves her daughter. My granddaughter is 26 now.

Things have a way of working out when you do the right thing.