Great article and great comments. In reading through them, unless I missed it, I haven't seen adoption mentioned as an option for a woman who doesn't want to abort her baby but also doesn't feel she can take on the--really--lifelong job of being a parent. I thank both of the birth mothers of my two adopted children for deciding to give…
Great article and great comments. In reading through them, unless I missed it, I haven't seen adoption mentioned as an option for a woman who doesn't want to abort her baby but also doesn't feel she can take on the--really--lifelong job of being a parent. I thank both of the birth mothers of my two adopted children for deciding to give birth to them. (One of these women I met when my son was 45 and was able to thank her in person; she told me how grateful she was to me for the love I gave our son. The birth mother of my daughter I haven't met, so I thank her in my prayers.)
On the questions--I am a follower of Christ and it makes sense to me that if we really loved our neighbor as ourselves, we would create a place to live where all parents and their children would be cared for, where there was true acceptance of adoption as a loving option for pregnant women, and not looked on as a shameful abandonment, where there was adequate sex education and access to birth control so there would be way fewer unplanned pregnancies, and where no pregnant woman and the father of her baby had to face the dread of knowing they did not have the means to care for their child.
Yes, I believe that what is inside the mother's womb is a human being and should not have his or her life taken away, but I also have enormous compassion for the women who become pregnant in this screwed up place we live, knowing that they are on their own to raise this child unless they are lucky enough to have loving families to help. I absolutely understand why some of them just can't imagine any way they could keep and raise their baby and cry for them.
Great article and great comments. In reading through them, unless I missed it, I haven't seen adoption mentioned as an option for a woman who doesn't want to abort her baby but also doesn't feel she can take on the--really--lifelong job of being a parent. I thank both of the birth mothers of my two adopted children for deciding to give birth to them. (One of these women I met when my son was 45 and was able to thank her in person; she told me how grateful she was to me for the love I gave our son. The birth mother of my daughter I haven't met, so I thank her in my prayers.)
On the questions--I am a follower of Christ and it makes sense to me that if we really loved our neighbor as ourselves, we would create a place to live where all parents and their children would be cared for, where there was true acceptance of adoption as a loving option for pregnant women, and not looked on as a shameful abandonment, where there was adequate sex education and access to birth control so there would be way fewer unplanned pregnancies, and where no pregnant woman and the father of her baby had to face the dread of knowing they did not have the means to care for their child.
Yes, I believe that what is inside the mother's womb is a human being and should not have his or her life taken away, but I also have enormous compassion for the women who become pregnant in this screwed up place we live, knowing that they are on their own to raise this child unless they are lucky enough to have loving families to help. I absolutely understand why some of them just can't imagine any way they could keep and raise their baby and cry for them.