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UnfairRepresent posted...

There are more orphanages and adoption centers than suitable parents. Society is not at a point where more unwanted babies is beneficial. This is a handwave. "You should be forced to carry a baby against your will and against your rights because adoption exists" is a non-sequtiur that hurts good people.

Admittedly this is definitely something I'm on the fence about. Because excess supply is a problem and I've seen some bad stories about adoptive parents as well. Idk how much they can do though. They do pretty strict background checks on foster parents already. I'd like for them to extend the age for foster care a little more for those that don't get taken or for those that lost their parents in their teens. Like maybe to 21 or so. It's a tough subject, but at least they're still given a chance at life that they wouldn't have had otherwise.

UnfairRepresent posted...

And you don't see the instant contradiction?

"I only exist because my mother was brave enough to carry an unwanted child. Oh wait in those circimstances it's cool to kill them."

IF your recongize that it's cool for your mother to get an abortion if she was raped or if your dad was your brother or it endangered her health, why do you decry that it would have been okay for her to do it if she had wanted to? And feel like that in that scenario she should have been forced against her will?

Why do you respect your mother so little?

No I don't see the contradiction. My mother had consensual unprotected sex so she knew what the consequences would be. She didn't have incest with a much higher rate of birth defects and deformities, and her life wasn't in danger. And even then, I said I'd only entertain the notion, as in I wouldn't be 100% against it because I can understand the rationale.
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