Students Speak On Abortion (at NARL event, UCONN ladies talk about their experiences)

The Daily Campus ^ | 2/3/06 | Brad Tilles and Chris Pickett

[GovernmentShrinker]

Also probably feared that her parents would yank her out of college if they found out. And I think we need to keep in mind how difficult information was to come by in the pre-Internet age. I wouldn't believe any college student today who said she could find an adoption agency willing to take a biracial baby off her hands (though she'd still have trouble finding one that could guarantee it would be promptly adopted), but 30-35 years ago, if you couldn't find something you needed in the yellow pages, you were out of options. In this woman's case, it appears that what she needed was an agency who would take her biracial baby immediately after its birth, without her parents ever finding out she'd been pregnant. That's why I don't find anything unbelievable about her story. Sure, she COULD be lying, but if she is, there are still plenty of women who werein her situation in that era who DID have the experience she described. Nobody here has any basis to be branding her a "liar".

[conservonator]

There is no doubt that adoption laws, like almost every other law in this nation needs revamping, but to use law as an excuse for abortion is pathetic. If the pro-abortion crowed really cared about "the children" why haven't they spent their considerable energies working towards changing the adoption laws?

Find me an adult that went through foster care that thinks he would be better off as an abortion victom.

[right-wingin_It]

What a joke -- that the adoption clinic "wouldn't take a bi-racial baby"...I'm too young to know if that story was ever true (which I doubt), but it is obviously not the case now a days. Can they show AT-LEAST a half-ass attempt to make their propoganda believable??

I sigh with you. I am unfortunately a UConn alum too.

I recall a few years back the university was going to get a animal vaccine research center built on campus for a $1 price tag from Pfizer (a value of like $80 million) and a crew of several virology experts added to their animal science, molecular bio, and pathobiology departments. Instead, a small group of humanities students (with support from their marxist professors) protested the plan, put an enormous ammount of junk environmental science (about contaminating the rinking water supplye etc) on the radio. They got a lawyer friend to file in court. Pfizer and the university wanted to fight it but Pfizer couldn't afford ther delay to their operations. They pulled out and set up at a mid-west university with an agricultural program.

[right-wingin_It]

wow..lotta typos..sorry

[GovernmentShrinker]

Check out the suicide rate among teens and young adults who've spent time in the foster care system.

And find me an adult who was conceived as a result of rape, who would prefer that the rape hadn't occurred. Individual experience doesn't necessarily translate into sound public policy.

[conservonator]

The suicides may or may not be a result of the foster system, many children that are placed in that system have problems long before they get there.

And find me an adult who was conceived as a result of rape, who would prefer that the rape hadn't occurred.

Find me any one who thinks rape should occur! What a stupid argument... Find me a child of a rape victim who thinks that they should have been aborted.

[presidio9]

I asked you whether YOU felt that Free Republic is a conservative website or a Libertarian one. Why are you unable to answer this question directly? It involves your personal beliefs.

[presidio9]

I asked you whether YOU felt that Free Republic is a conservative website or a Libertarian one. Why are you unable to answer this question directly? It involves your personal beliefs.

[presidio9]

Someone who is "devout" is nonetheless capable of sin. We are weak creatures; it is one thing to say you will do the right thing and another to actually do it if and when it is required, especially if the consequences mean social isolation or rejection by family.

No, I find it hard to believe that "social isolation" or "rejection" would be major issues for devout Catholics. Devout Catholics are active in their parishes, and hence, find most of their social and peer groups there. Even in the early 70's there would be little sigma for the family of a biracial baby in a Catholic peer group.

[presidio9]

Actually, I found it interesting that both of the clearly sympathetic authors of this article are men.

[presidio9]

but 30-35 years ago, if you couldn't find something you needed in the yellow pages, you were out of options.

This was patently untrue. Any person raised in a devoutly Catholic family would have known today, 35 years ago, or 200 years ago that she could turn to a local parish priest for help without judgement. And if she were ashamed to approach one she knew, there would be others available. As important as it seems to be for you to prove otherwise, this woman is lying about something.

[Shethink13]

Presumably the event was planned with the idea of countering the barrage of anti-abortion activism that pervades this country.

Countering the barrage of anti-abortion activism that pervades college campuses? Surely you jest.

You don't honestly believe that college campuses are barraged with anti-abortion activism, do you?

Now, if this event was planned as a balance to a pro-life event, you might have a point. But I don't believe that's the case.

[Jacquerie]

Well said! Our rights come from God, not the government as the loony left believes. There is no God given right to kill the innocent.

[cgk]

Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!

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[old and tired]

Try Bethany Christian Services. They're the largest adoption agency in the US. They're non-profit, but they've got a list of folks waiting for a Black baby and in our office, the agency fees are identical for a healthy black or white child.

It's true there are lots of healthy black babies in foster care, but that is because their mothers have not terminated their parental rights. In other words, those children are not currently available for adoption.

[Diago]

I had google bombed that photo into the top five for image searches for Margarwet Sanger, but I think google pulled it at some point: http://www.margaretsanger.blogspot.com/

[Know your rights]

I wouldn't believe any college student today who said she could find an adoption agency willing to take a biracial baby off her hands

So this alleged "need" for legal abortion no longer exists.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Since this was, I believe, done on a college campus, I highly doubt there is much if any anti abortion rhetoric going on.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!