Why do people have a difficult time understanding adoption and abortion aren alternatives to each other?
See Kate, I think that reasoning is just semantics. In any given pregnancy, there are three options: parenting the child, having an abortion, or placing for adoption. With the exception of a miscarriage or stillbirth, the outcome will be one of those three things. Whether or not the decisions are made at the same time is incidental aand beside the point. Besides, I haven’t met anyone who had an abortion because they didn’t want to be pregnant, have stretch marks, gain weight, have morning sickness, swollen ankles, etc. They had the abortion because they didn’t want to, or weren’t ready to be a PARENT. Look at all the questions here from women considering their options. Nobody has said, “Man, I sure don’t want stretch marks, I’d better have an abortion.” Or “This morning sickness thing is real inconvenient. Better make an appointment at a clinic.” They are considering abortion because they are faced with a crisis pregnancy and are questioning their ability and readiness to parent a chil
