Do conservative pro-lifers adopt babies from the social service system?

Question

There is a lot of anti-abortion sentiment to be found on Yahoo and regardless of what anyone thinks on EITHER side of the issue, I just have to wonder if the ones that are the biggest advocates of "murder prevention" ever adopt these babies from the social services system?

This is not meant to be an explosive question aimed at getting anyone fired up about the issue of abortion. I simply would like to see some statistics or hear stories of gung-ho pro-life advocates who have such passion for the issue that they adopt (or provide foster care to) these children that they try to save.

I'm just interested to know what happens AFTER the birth.

Answer 1

Most of them do not, and also advocate not giving help to young mothers.
Some people who are pro-life feel like that because they were adopted or because they want to adopt, so I can somewhat understand why they feel like that. However, most of them do not adopt, are not willing to help out mothers, and just advocate "wait until you get married", as if having a marriage license makes people want to be parents or ready to rear a child.A lot of them are also sex-ed and birth control, which completely blows my mind.
Unfortunately, they do not adopt- currently, there are 600,000 children in foster care who do not have a permanent foster home, and each year, 20,000 children reach the age of 18 without ever having had a family.

Answer 2

I think that generally, they do not, but I know of three families that do.

My boyfriend is one of four with a deacon for a father and generally a very catholic family. His little brother was adopted at birth from India.

I work for a Catholic family with thirteen kids, and only four biologial. They not only adopt older children, but their adopted kids are all either Korean or white with developmental disabilities...not "normal" white babies, like upper class white people usually want. All their kids are wonderful, too

Lastly, my good girlfriend has a brother who was adopted. He, too, has some special needs, but their story is different. Inthier case, the parents felt pressured by their chirch to adopt a kid they didn't want. They took a teenage boy with some severe problems, including pedophelia, and brought him into their home with young daughters. They put the appearance of being "good catholics" before the well being of the children that they already had, and It's never been anything but problems. I think they wanted so badly to appear like model christians that they didn't even think about whether this particular teenager would be okay in thier family. When the kids started getting moleslted, the parents would just say "what do you want us to do, send him away? He's your brother!" Ummm....not smart!

Answer 3

They are not. There are group homes stuffed full of unwanted children in every state. Can't afford it? BS! Most states will pay you to take a special needs adoptee. Special needs means they are usually not babies, not white, and have some emotional issues due to the abuse and neglect they have endured. Mentally retarded and sick kids don't get adopted either. Why don't you little life savers get to giving homes to these poor darlings? You'd rather their illiterate, mentally ill 14 year old moms or heroine addicted dads beg for them on the street? How dare you presume that those who have abortions are in any better position to raise a child than you are.

Answer 4

I'm a pro-lifer, and I have thought seriously about becoming a foster parent. Right now, though, I'm pregnant myself and our home is not in any shape to house another child. Our work schedules probably wouldn't allow it and my husband and I are young and not ready. One day, though, we may do it.

My aunt and uncle are conservatives, and probably pro-lifers as well. They adopted three children from the social service system. At times, they suffered; the adoption process can be as emotionally painful and difficult as having the baby yourself! (Maybe more difficult!)

I don't know if you realize this, but white infants are highly in demand right now. People who can't get them from social services will woo a mother privately with a lawyer, pay her medical expenses, etc so they can adopt her baby once it's born. Sometimes those who can't have children themselves DO have money, because it's easier to be career-oriented when you have no kids. Personally, I wouldn't care about race if I were adopting a baby, but many people want the baby to seem as close to themselves as possible and a lot of them want white infants.

I don't think we have to worry about unaborted babies growing old in the social system and living without a family forever. So many women are experiencing fertility problems right now that there's a demand to be met.

Answer 5

Well honey, SOMEONE is adopting them. And my best guess is its not the people who are killing them in the first place, right?

I am not a picket waving pro lifer, but I personally don't think an abortion is any ones right either. I don't much care if I'm popular with either side, as there seems to be some insanity on both sides of that particular fence. It just strikes me funny that a young girl will tell me that my Calf skin gloves are a travesty, and that some poor baby cow had to DIE just so my rich *** can have a pair of gloves.

Then 2 months later I see her picture in a newspaper with a story saying she had died from complications of a botched abortion attempt.

On the one hand, She is dead, her unborn kid is dead without even a chance at this crap we call life, and everyone who loves her may as well be dead, and the people she would have met, her future husband, in laws, friends, kids, etc....... all gone.

But she was deeply outraged by my gloves.

I guess, I feel so bad for her, I can't stop thinking about it. I wish there was less hypocrisy and evil in the world. I wish she could have her life back. And because of that, I wish her baby could have his or her life back.

You know, with millions of sperm cells, and thousands of egg cells floating around, being born at all is like winning the biggest lottery in the world. Can you imagine, being the Power-ball winner, winning the biggest cash prize of all time, and for months thinking about what you will do with all those winnings, how your life will change, the excitement and happiness you feel, just to have someone walk by and rip up your ticket, saying that's no good.I'mcancelling it.

In some ways, I think its the same thing.
Who has the right to do that? Who COULD do that? Certainly not the little girl who so loved baby cows that she felt compelled to berate a grown man she'd never met before. One who'd have gladly helped her, if she'd only asked. What a horrible waste.
Dear God.

Answer 6

There is growing demand for newborn adopted children, it is older children who have a hard time getting adopted. With the more women putting off having children until it's too late it's time we stopped this uncivilized practice of murdering viable children and giving them to families who want them. As with any issue there will still need to be license to do medical procedures involving the fetus, but the allowing the callous destruction of a growing child when we are in a population decline makes little sense.

Answer 7

I'm pro-choice along with most of my family. I don't know any national or even local statistics. I do know that the majority of my family is pro-choice, and we have had 17 adoptions across my family in the past 16 years.

Answer 8

what a good question. and how funny u got NO satisfactory answers from the pro-lifers? the scilence is revealing, don't u think?

Answer 9

Sure they do, as long as the babies are white, and newborn.

Answer 10

Hypocrisy is very common among fanatics. I hate kids so I guess it's good that I am very pro abortion :)