Good points, Steven.
I do think a lot of pro-lifers have gotten it wrong with the abortion issue. Many just want to black-and-white ban abortion. Abortion is a symptom of the problem, and not the cause of it.
Abortion is a simple answer to unwanted children. Pro-lifers (some, if not most) don't see that as being the crux of the issue. If you ban abortion, then you give the general populace an extra 50,000,000 children in America that will most likely have hard lives, and be neglected. That's not being pro-life. That's being pro-I-really-don't-care-but-wanna-appear-to. It's a very sickening thought that there *are* a lot of pro-lifers that'd rather mandate something, than involve themselves with the process.
Here's a picture that sums up my fusterations with the issue:
It would be far better for pro lifers to target the faulty (and deplorable) adoption laws in America, and work to change them. If adoptions are made easier, and more viable for loving families, then the culture surrounding abortions would change, and we would (likely) see a significant drop in them, since the argument would change that abortion isn't a very good alternative to giving the child up.
And it is very upsetting that most pro-lifers won't consider adoption as an alternative to having their own kids. As I said at the onset of my 1st post, that's why my family will consist of every race of child, every socio-economic background, every age - as long as I can do it under the good graces of love, finances, and the time in order to raise said adopted kids.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
