Maybe we should be careful about blanket statements.
I appears that there are over 130,000 children in the U.S. that are having little success in finding a good home. That "blanket statement" speaks for itself.
http://www.adoptamericanetwork.org/waiting-children/[/QUOTE]
That is unfortunate and I guess like every other species we humans adopt, we're drawn to the babies rather than older kids with associated problems or even those that have no problems but we have a fear of not bonding with them because they are older.
But that's not the fault either of pro-life people nor is the homelessness, neglect or outright abuse of those kids the fault of people who believe the way they do. The state of those kids lives is more likely caused by a lack of opportunities and hope for their parents and so mom and/or dad succumb to the frustration of doing without, living in fear, failure to learn how to parent from their own parents, etc., and their kids pay the price. Maybe as a conscientious and educated voter, you need to get on your government for their policies that allowed the corporations to abandon their country of origin, for those with even lower wages than these people would require to live a basic but decent life.
I think because their opinion differs from yours for example, it's easy to target them as being 'evil people'. But social mores change and evolve and once upon a time, you would have been considered the evil person by the majority. Does that or would that have made you a bad person, or someone with a different perspective and who thought he had evidence to back it up?
That kind of attitudinal name calling does nothing to solve any problem and doesn't lead to dialogue either. Change only comes with dialogue and a willingness to at least consider the merits of the other sides argument.
It seems to me that there are three 'sides' to this discussion. One is your side, then there's the pro-lifers side, and the aborting 'mothers' side. As a woman, I've had the experience of all three and I can tell you this, it isn't as cut and dried as you would like to think it is.
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