Bob, Bob, Do you just make these things up?
I was a Social Service worker for years. There is no shortage of children. There is a shortage of healthy, Caucasian newborns whose parents have at least average intelligence and no terrible diseases and could we have that in writing, please. That's what all your eager adoptive parents want. They want a baby they can save by molding in their own image, they want guarantees and they sometimes want to return a child who doesn't make the grade. There are many, many children who languish in foster care and temporary placements because no one wants a child with problems, who's older, who's no longer as attractive and full of promise.
Before you condemn the choices made by frightened, or desperate, or defeated women, before you damn the counselors and doctors who are doing their best to help them, how about you get raped, you bear a child you know you can't bear to give up, but have no ability to raise, you take a drug-addicted baby, a child doomed to death because he is HIV positive, an emotionally disturbed teenager who was raped and beaten by her step-father. Let's give those children homes and love first. And when you do that, maybe we can talk about responsibility. But right now, reading your unbelievably callous words about "going to the trouble of getting pregnant, then take the responsibility" has left me so aghast at your limited view, I just want to cry in frustration.
Now maybe you would do all these things, perhaps you already have, but you know what, I don't think you have. For all the emotion-laden, noble speeches that fall so easily from the lips of well-intentioned Christians, when it comes right down to it, they can protect their homes, their own children, their wallets, their personal pleasures as selfishly as any pagan. I don't condemn them for this; but why do they feel so justified in condemning others? |
