Maybe after the "anti abortion" people put their money where their mouth is ... and actually adopt ALL the hundreds of thousands of children currently "unwanted" (foster care, orphanages, etc).
The majority of kids in foster care are not available for adoption. Of the approx 400,000 in foster care only 100,000 are adoptable. Of those the average time in foster care is about 2yrs. On average, 45,000 are adopted each year. I do not know those adoptive parents position on abortion.
And the majority of the 300,000 "not adoptable" are there because the parents should NOT have children ... but the state can't take them away permanently. OR they have mental issues, and the state "strongly discourages" their adoption.
Not to mention the problem of abusive foster families.
So again ... before the "anti abortion" crowd starts coming up with plans for no abortions, they need to solve the current problem of "unwanted" and abused children first.
They are not adoptable because their parent's rights have not been terminated. Not because of issues with the child etc. Some are there temporarily, some are going through the court process to be adoptable. (Termination of parental rights)
Yes, parents who abuse their children had no business having children....but the answer is not abortion.
As I said my response stands...unwanted children are being adopted every year but it is a long process.
Roughly 20,000 annually age out of the system. (I cannot find a stat saying how many of those 20,000 were available for an adoption) And over 50% of those were in the system for less than 3yrs. The average wait for an adoption is 2 yrs....so an infant or new born who was not aborted will be adopted....
So abortion a way to keep foster care empty is not the answer. I have never seen anyone use the term anti-abortionists. Most will claim there are no pro-abortionists.
That can actually be done now. I read an article where a gay couple did that- one mom carried the baby briefly and then they moved it to the other mom. However, I believe the embryo was in some kind of medical device that made the transfer from one mom to the other easier.
That being said, I find it doubtful most women considering abortion would go for it. There's something about the mindset; I think they typically either don't see it as a life or convince themselves that it's not in order to be able to go through it. The idea of transferring it would force the women to change their mindsets- recognize it's a life. Once that shift happens, I think they'd be less likely to give it up.
That's not true for all women who are considering abortions and I know many use weeks or development to decide when an embryo becomes a life... there are obviously many different groups and many different reasons. However, I think the presence of an option like this wouldn't change much overall.
Walt O'Reagun 