Related pondering - does anyone else feel like there is a difference in the so-called 'maternal instinct' or 'value' of a child's life between someone who purposefully has a child and someone who has a child for "other" reasons (to try to trap a man, for welfare, for child support "revenge," on accident? It's a lot of why I'm pro-choice; you cannot force a parent(s) who don't want a kid to love and care for that kid.
So just humainly kill the child like an animal eh ? To hell with adoption ?? If their weren't so many selfish people in America adoption would work better. However, there has got to be more responsible citizens who have some sort of moral compass that tells them to take the nessesary precautions in order to not just allow themselves to get pregnant to begin with.
I actually agree with you, people lack a moral compass these days. I think it's one of the "great" things the general hatred of religion has brought to us. I wish people took responsibility for their actions, and did the "right thing" with the consequences - but they don't. Like I'd said earlier, today it's all about disposable relationships... and yea, kids unfortunately.
I get flack from my Christian friends, and I totally get where they are coming from - even sans religious argument. However, I look at the long term (in all things really,) and honestly, we all know these "unwanted" kids aren't likely to get adopted, if they even get put up for adoption - the maternal instinct is a bit cruel in this regard, while the mom is carrying the baby they get attached and then the time comes and they back out - and their too damn stupid to give up after they realize they've just ruined their life; too young, too poor, not ready. And what does the kid get from these types? Irresponsible, selfish mothers, usually with no father and no future. Generational failure, poverty, etc. And horrible role models. (Yea, not every time, but often, too often...) What should we do, cross our fingers and hope the law catches these types /before/ they emotionally wreck the kid? Hope and pray that "someone" calls in about the way they're slapping the kid around?
If a woman's willing to kill her baby before it's even born, then they don't want it and society cannot force them to want it, can't force them to raise them right, to teach them values, to teach them to care about and respect the value of life. It's why we have all these gang-bangers and dead-beat dads, IMO - they were not raised by good families, by good parents, with moral ethics and standards. They probably raised themselves, like animals... Feral children who become feral adults who end up in jail most of the time; stealing, beating people up, killing people, drugs, rape, you name it - check their parents, 9 out of 10 they're shit bags. Why would I wish that future on an innocent kid? So yea... pro choice.
