What's wrong with ADOPTION?!
In “The Bitter Price of Choice,” by Frederica Mathews-Green, persuasion is very effective. Mathews-Green knows her audience extremely well, assuming the crowd is pro-choice. It gives her an extreme advantage as far as using the story of how she was very much pro-choice to receive immediate trust. Then she explains her true purpose to the writing: to share the reasoning for changing from pro-choice to pro-life.
She uses little anecdotes that exemplify the way abortions are carried out but in such a way that focuses away from the fact that it could possibly make a woman’s life easier to not deal with a child and relieve a large amount of stress in her life but focuses towards the gruesome procedure itself. “She climbs onto a clinic table and endures a violation deeper than rape—the nurse’s hand is wet with her tears—then is grateful to pay for it, grateful to be adapted to the social machine that reject her when pregnant.”
The statistics she puts in is also very effective because the numbers are so staggering. I do not think abortion is a good idea at all and I’m very much against it. No matter what the circumstance is I believe adoption is always the best alternative. I do not think someone can destroy life and deny that child the same opportunities you had in your lifetime. It makes me sad that a person couldn’t live with his or herself for putting a child in the adoption system but feels more secure with abortion.
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Tyler I totally agree with you. Adoption is the best answer in ALL cases. I could not imagine going through life knowing i supported the killing of an innocent baby. I know I thank God everyday for allowing me one more breath, who are we to deny that to a child.
I think that adoption is a decent substitute to work with, but there is alot of ways that this could go wrong. Right now, there are alot of government programs that are overflowed on the influx of the children that are in the system already, and that isn't a good life to be stuck in until you are 18. To me, I can understand why someone would choose to put their child up for adoption rather than just have the procedure done, but there might be some people that think that that is selfish of someone, rather than than the vice-versa idea of adoption being good.
I agree with you Tyler. People should rethink their choices when dealing with a human being. I also think that if a couple doesn't want a child then they should give them up for adoption. They are human beings as well and deserve a chance at life.
Adoption is a good substitute, if there is a home ready for the child. However, there are very few homes that will readily accept the number of children that unplanned pregnancies create. Besides, between the number of hoops that wanna-be parents must jump through and the number of children there are to be placed, there will never be an equal supply of kids and parents.
If the child would be forced to live in orphan/various foster homes for its whole life, until the age of 18 when they are booted out into the world with no steady base to fall back on, what kind of life is that to be led? Most children feel incredibly vulnerable when they don't have that steady home to come back to. A child that grows up feeling vulnerable is liable to feel that way its entire life.
I agree with Tyler adoption is definatly a much better choice opposed to abortion. But isnt putting up a kid for adoption possibly creating a "Trojan Horse" of it own kind.
I'm going to have to disagree with you, Tyler, when you say that Matthewes-Green was appealing to a pro-choice audience. She originally wrote the article for SisterLife, the newsletter for the pro-life Feminist for Life. Her audience was mainly pro-life.
I agree with you Tyler 100%. Abortion is definitely not the way to go. You can carry the baby full term and always give it up for adoption. There are always more choices for the sake of the baby. Sometimes people just try to take the "easy" way out by aborting. I think that is the worst thing anyone could do because you're not giving the baby a full chance at life
I wonder whether Matthewes-Green considers abortion the "easy way out."
Abortion is always the easy way out. I would have to agree that adoption is alot better than abortion. I'd also have to agree with Wendy when she says that there are so little homes to accept unplanned babies and that foster homes are sometimes not that great of a place to be. So i believe the best thing to do if something like and unplanned birth happens is to just hang in there because if you dont you might regret it later on.
Tyler, I fully agree with you. Many women who have gotten pregnant and want to "get rid" of the baby, do not understand that in aborting the baby, they are causing more harm to themselves than to the baby itself. Think about it! Without that baby, you will never feel the love of a little on calling you mommy, or the pleasure in knowing, "Awww...she/he has your eyes, ears, or smile."
To kill a human being so small and defenseless should never be an option. Give him/her up for adoption and in that way, they can still have a life- with or without you.
I completely agree with you Tyler. I believe that if a person is irresponsible to have sex without using protection or have sex at all, then they should be responsible for taking care of the life they created, or either making sure it is taken care of by putting it up for adoption. Even if the woman was raped, adoption is the best choice. There is a created, living, breathing human being inside of a woman from the time of conception, and I believe that whether or not it was intended under any circumstances, the child should be born, and either taken care of by the biological parent(s) or put in the care of a better fit adoptive parent.
I agree with you, Rebekah. My mother was taken advantage of at a party when she was 15 and if she had not had the courage to go through with the pregnancy, I would not be here. I love life.
So, speaking from the viewpoint of the unplanned child, abortion is not the way to go.
I looked over the comments, and we really can't say. Situations like this, you have to experience. Adoption is better than abortions, but you have to take the child in consideration. Whether it's adoption or abortion, it has an effect on the child. If you go wiht adoption, you're still killing some part of that child. It's real parents, it's sick background, and other things. Neither one is better than the other.
I agree with tyler that adoption is a better choice. I don't believe in abortion. I never have. I have always felt that if you think you are grown enough to have sex, then you should be grown enough to take care of that child. Don't take the coward's way out. Be bold enough to realize you made a mistake and live with it. Also, I agree with Brandon that children in foster care sometimes end up staying there until they are 18, but, I am sure they would rather be there than dead.
My opipion on abortion is its up to the individual. Abortion and pregnanacy are both hard roads to walk down. Matthewes-Greenes says abortion is the "easy way out" (Mr.Barnette's comment) I don't think its the easy way out, sure you won't have the responsibility, but abortion is a difficult process to go through. There has been many complications, and after effects of abortions. Back to the blog if an individual thought they could handle pregnancy, and giving the baby up, then that would be awesome. But for me its up to the individual. Matthewes-Greenes feminist beliefs seem to come across as her forcing her beliefs and views on her audience. I totally believe its each to their own. Nobody has the right to tell someone their wrong, in having an abortion. I think unplanned pregnanacys are hard enough, people do not need people nailing their opinion on them. Nobody can understand the thoughts going through ones head when situation like that comes up. So again I believe its each to their own.
This happens to be a subject that i have mixed feelings on. I mean one one hand i believe that most people, that have decided they are ready for sex and get pregnant, should have to keep the baby.
However, some situations are not the same for me. Consider, a woman being raped. Do you think that she should have to live with that horrible memory for nine months at least. Even if she gives that child up nine months is the minimum.
Then, even if that child grows up it has to go through life not having any parents. It has the possiblity of growing up to be just like its father and put another woman in this situation.
I am in no means saying that every child like this is going to grow up like that.
I'm sorry if this offends anyone but this is just how a feel. I don't think that the woman should have to go through that tramatic exprience at all.
Tyler I truely agree with you because I really think that adoption is the best next step for females dealing with that proplem. I really think that females think if they take the life of the unborn no one will judge them.I know that some females would rather give their child up because they can not provide a good life style. so yes aboptions are the best way to go.
I agree with you Tyler, about how Frederica’s use of persuasion is effective. The way she told about how she used to be pro-choice helps the reader to, like you said, to trust her more. I feel that adoption is the best way to go in most cases. Like some others who commented on your post, who are we to pick who should live or die? I really do think people should consider what they are taking away when they go through with an abortion.
I agree with you Tyler. However, in all reality it has become a law in which a female can choose as to what route she would like to take when it comes to unwanted pregancies. What is to be question the beliefs and or the law? In reality neither seems to be a good choice if you are not ready to step up to the plate and be a mother to that child but that doesn't mean that the child's life should be taken. If you are not ready for the commitment and take responsibilty, adoption can be a option. However,in the stand point of abortion, you will have emotionally problems because you know that you got rid of something that you created and was apart of you. In the end with either choice you will be unstable but, you will not feel as guilt if you would have gotten rid of the child.
I agree with Wendy. Adoption is the best substitute if there is a home ready for the child. I don't think that anyone would wanna,or should be forced to, go through life moving from foster home to foster home, or living in orphanages. At least if the parets know the home that is receiving the child they might be able to be in the childs life in some way or at least know how the child is doing.
I'd like to respond to the comment by christopher concerning rape victims and what the women should do with a child from that situation. I believe that the child should not be considered a product of the father but a miracle of life. The child is not truly related to the rapist.
I believe that genes decide only about ten percent of how a person behaves and their lifestyle. Even that 10% is flexible to influence from parents and other family. A child is a child and if the mother can't have the child then she can't forgive and move on with the rest of her life.
I agree with you Tyler that adoption is a good alternative. But i also agree with Wendy that a child that grows up in a foster home for so long can be extremly affected by this.
You make a point Tyler, but I know of a friend who had an abortion. Adoption is a good alternative, Yes, but the person did not want to have a child come into this world and not be part of its life. Another person who was 17 did put their child up for adoption and when she got married and older she never wanted to have another child again. It is easier said than done. But, back to my friend, no one would accept her if she went through with the pregnancy. It was the wrong time and place to be having a child that she could not support. Yes, she did make a bad choice. Abortion is not the solution but you have to be understanding of what the female has to go through. Then you have to think of the child, if you have no income and you are still living with mommy and daddy, how is that going to make the child feel. Growing up in an unstable environment if the mother did keep the baby. Yes, I am against it! But, you need to be forgiving of that persons actions because a sin is a sin no matter what it is, they are all equal.
don't ever hate the person, just hate the action, a person will never forgive themselves fully, that is punishment enough, if you must be there for that person, do not be a judge
Tyler, I agree with you. I don't support abortion either. I don't have have a problem with adoption though. I just think that we should not kill the babies and we will live happily ever after.
I agree with you Tyler, I'm totally against abortion. I don't think anyone should take an innocent life, especially when there are other choices such as adoption.
I very much agree with you Tyler. I think it is wrong for someone to take the life of an innocent baby. That should be the same thing as murder. There are too many options to do that.
I agree with you Tyler. I am adopted and I could not thank my birth mother enough for not having an abortion. I think everyone should have the same opportunities in life.
I really wanted to disagree with somebody, however, with this topic, I have to keep my stance on the issue. I believe that adoption is a very obvious solution to the abortion controversy. I also believe that people are always responsible for their own actions.
Reading your post was interesting. I also disagree with abortion, but, surely if you have a child you want to keep, love and, take care of it. I disagree when you say people could use adoption as an alternative. How can someone give up their own child? Adoption should only be turned to if the child’s parents are no longer alive. If any one is willing to give up their own child, then they don’t deserve to be loved themselves.
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