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The Question was : " Who here would have opened their home , loved, provided for, and taken responsibility for that child that raped woman would have had?"

Not I....
Not at this point in my life (that is why I have kept my mouth shut).

I will abide, MOST reluctantly, with an abortion in three situations: 1) Rape. 2) Incest. 3) In cases where the Mother's life is endangered. Under these conditions, said abortion needs to happen within the first two months. Abortion is killing, and after that time is damn-sure murder.

Ditto....Especially incest... I lived in a situation like "Bastard Out of Carolina",it was happening all around me...
To more than one little girl I knew....
And I had a father and uncle who, erm, ah...
Scared me spitless
Words can't describe what it is like.

Have YOU signed up to adopt a child? Yep, for years....Spent $$$$ on agencies, overseas stuff etc...

Are YOU willing to put your money where your mouth is?
10 years ago, yes...
Now, no.

Would you accept a crack-baby? How about a child with deformities? 10 years ago, maybe.
I work with the disabled/MR/mentally ill now daily....

Have you adopted a child?
I went into the foster partent program because in this state it is the quickest way to adopt....My late husband and I had been through every route.....we were turned down because our total ages were too high (he was much older than I). He died 3 months after we finished foster parent classes. I fostered then by myself (working full time) with my mother as my 'second' parent. When she died two years later, I quit (a broken heart, grief and I am on the road too much).

I expect that I have just kicked open a sh*t-storm with this post. Matter of fact, I hope so! Cos I get nauseated at some of the pious grandstanding I see.

Hey, you get no complaints from me. The real eye opener was when I was handed a book a foot thick of kids up for adoption in this state. There are lots of kids out there for adoption...they just aren't healthy, white, single babies.

THANK YOU!

Your answers are well thought out and honest.

I worked for years in the "health-care industry". Half-way houses and group homes, mostly. Spent a lot of time caring for persons that society does not want. Heart-breaking, especially the crack-babies. After I saw the same damn crack-mother for the third time in two years I had to ask for a transfer Else I would have done violence to her.

The incest thing gives me the willies and I do not blame you a bit.

I don't believe I culd have an abortion myself under ANY circumstance, and that includes rape, but I will not tell anyone else they must not.

Thank you again.

Tia