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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would never put my body through pregnancy. I adopted my kids. [/quote]

This is nothing to brag about.  [/quote]

Not the poster you were responding to, but I’m always glad to see people [b]choose adoption. [/b][/quote]

Adoption is more often than not a traumatic experience for the adoptee & birth mother. [/quote]

…As if leaving babies and young children to be raised within a state’s foster care system (or the overseas equivalent, etc?) [b]is the better option here? [/b]

By choose adoption, I mean when people choose to adopt. There are a lot of babies and kids who need loving homes. [/quote]

Abortion access is the better option. Something that many women who give a baby up for adoption didn’t have access to.[/quote]

Reproductive justice demands we respect all choices. Even those that have the ability choose abortion may want to choose adoption; it is not your place—nor anyone else’s—to say what choice is “better.”

Even if abortion was available and accessible to all individuals as it should be, regardless of income or zip code, adoption would remain a valid option and one that someone may end up choosing for a variety of reasons.

If your position is that no one should continue a pregnancy without be willing to raise the child themselves or have a private adoption agreement in place at an early stage, that is one take…but ignores how life works. Take a woman who had hoped to raise a child but then a catastrophic financial event occurred that left them unable to afford the baby. Or a person who did have a private adoption agreement in place that fell through. Or even more simply, someone who felt panicked and lost and—while they opposed abortion—felt handing over the baby to a foster home was the best outcome.

But go on, hold your noise up in the air and continue to dictate the lives of others. [/quote]

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