[dheretic]

Yes, I think by law anti-abortionists should be required to adopt any crack baby or rapist's baby if that is there won't be abortions. I would only be willing to abolish abortion if a national registry of opinion were to be established. Anyone in favor if its abolition would be required by law to adopt any kid the state puts at their doorstep. If you refuse you are either fined or sent to prison. If you are going to burden society with your opinion you should have to pay dearly out of your pocket for it.

[SoothingDave]

Yes, I think by law anti-abortionists should be required to adopt any crack baby or rapist's baby if that is there won't be abortions. I would only be willing to abolish abortion if a national registry of opinion were to be established.

Interesting police state you want to set up.

Anyone in favor if its abolition would be required by law to adopt any kid the state puts at their doorstep. If you refuse you are either fined or sent to prison.

Do you honestly think this is a deterrent? Putting aside the "individual" list, there are certainly groups of people who would be happy to take any baby. I call your bluff and repeat the words of Mother Theresa: "If you don't want them, give the babies to me."

If you are going to burden society with your opinion you should have to pay dearly out of your pocket for it.

People are such a burden aren't they?

SD

[Caleb1411]

Yes, I think by law anti-abortionists should be required to adopt any crack baby or rapist's baby if that is there won't be abortions. I would only be willing to abolish abortion if a national registry of opinion were to be established. Anyone in favor if its abolition would be required by law to adopt any kid the state puts at their doorstep. If you refuse you are either fined or sent to prison. If you are going to burden society with your opinion you should have to pay dearly out of your pocket for it.

You're dealing in shibboleths, not realities.

First, why do you lump crack babies with babies conceived through rape? The rape is indisputably a crime committed against the mother; doing crack is a woman's volitional choice.

Second, you don't need the coercive force of law. There are more adoptive parents than there are babies to adopt. If you go to ParentProfiles.com, for example, you can find parent profiles of couples who are specifically willing to adopt children conceived through rape. When Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Wilke wrote their book Why Can't We Love Them Both? in 1999, there were about two million couples waiting to adopt.

SoothingDave is right in calling your bluff. The specter you raise of a glut of unadopted children is baseless.