You know, I don't think being pro-choice is "supporting abortion" as much as it is not seeing any other real choice to a bunch of people who should not be parents getting pregnant.
As a child of an adoption, and knowing quite a few other children of adoption throughout my life, being adopted was not the same for us as having biological families. It may be different for adopted children I have not met. Now that I have children of my own, I understand the power of blood ties- they are indefinably more powerful. In order to get rid of abortion something would have to be done with children resulting from pregnancies- something akin to what we see in the black community, which is not as accepting of abortion, and has very low rates. Hence unwanted children get stuck with grandparents who don't want to, or can't care for them, get raised by mothers who don't want them, or can't care for them, or go into care with the state.
Raising children is something one should not encourage. It is a very difficult job, and one that should only be undertaken by parents (and it would be nice if there were two parents) who really really want that child. If parents would rather get an abortion, then I don't want them reproducing. It would be nice if people would just stop getting pregnant. I am a strong supporter of birth control. However, barring effective birth control, I don't think a lot of unwanted births are just what our society needs right now. |
