I don't agree with that philosophy at all, but I can see how someone could think that. Some are against abortion, first, and secondly, they feel like a child should be raised among their natural family and not among "strangers". Again, I don't agree with it, but I know that is how some people think.

I can't explain it to you other than moralists are often rigid in their dogma and don't see the greys or alternatives or even the consequences of their unbending control.

So you force a person to keep a child that they are not ready to care for and you end up with an abused or dead child. Where is the "right to life" in those all too frequent cases.

Here in our metropolis you can take a newborn to the fire station or hospital and hand it over - no questions asked. This was the common sense approach to newborns being found dead in toilets and trashcans.

I don't know how it is in the rest of the country, but here in NY....you got five days after the child is born to abandon the baby and not be liable for it. But you would have to leave the baby with someone at a hospital or something like that.

Forcing people into parenthood is gonna be met with disastrous results.

Silly philosophy. Abortion is wrong but adoption is giving the child a fighting chance.

Now, the quote is hardly forcing people into parenthood; their decision to have sex brought their problems about. That part is true. But adoption is an honest way to deal with it, and certainly the only real alternative to not raising it yourself.

That's ridiculous, IMO. Children are not a punishment, they are human beings who deserve to be treated with respect. If a person doesn't want them, I doubt that would happen.

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Maybe some friends here can help me understand why someone would feel that both abortion and adoption are wrong and that a woman MUST raise a child from an unplanned pregnancy.

Was that a rhetorical question? Because anyone who says that is an asshole. They’re clearly not putting the best welfare of the child first. And what about all the people who can’t have children of their own? They can only adopt children who become orphans?

Oh wow - I misread this at first - I thought it was saying that if you've had an abortion, you shouldn't be allowed to adopt.

I don't agree at all with the "no abortion, no adoption, you've made you bed... Adoption can be a WONDERFUL thing. No one should be forced to raise a child if they feel someone else would do a better job. Forcing them to become parents is just stupid and leads to a whole mess of problems. Why punish the child because the parents have made a mistake.