Abortion Foes Need to Sign Up for Adoptions

ChucKtheAtheisT's style isn't usually confrontational. But I have to admit I'm getting a little sick of Christian fundamentalism, the active, political ilk of which I call Christian Supremacy. Here is a little conversation I had with an evangelical Christian on the subject of abortion:

RT @ChucKtheAthesT Line up the bastards that feel the need to dictate women's reproductive rights and require that they adopt two crack babies each. #prolife

RT @littlebytesnews @ChucKtheAtheisT why bc you rather abort poor babies,or babies exposed to crack because you believe abortion is more humane? #prolife

Littlebytes,

No I don’t think only poor unwanted babies should be aborted, but yes I feel that abortion may be more humane in many cases. The main point is what kind of life would many of the unwanted, sick, and developmentally disabled lead? Perhaps if abortion foes were required to adopt unfortunates, that really would be a consciousness-raiser, and you would see a lot fewer protests that feature pictures of aborted babies and people that manipulate women into having babies that they don’t want or can’t raise themselves. And if a woman is brutally raped, and becomes pregnant, should she have to carry that baby? So if YOU specifically do not want her to have an abortion, YOU should sign up to adopt the baby. Anti-abortion Christians very easily and freely want to decide for people they don't know.

And if you think it’s the secular world that is having the most abortions, you may need to consider your own demographic. An interesting observation of a former Planned Parenthood site director (a radio interview I heard on a Christian radio station) was that around 70% of women that had abortions at her facility were in fact Christian. The women reported that it was often their fear of the Christian community in which they lived that made them clandestinely opt for abortion. They feared ostracism and abuse (and expected to receive both). So perhaps if women in Christian communities felt the love of their community, they wouldn’t feel the need to have abortions. The blood may really be on the hands of the twisted, hypocritical Christians in your own community.

A video was also disseminated (http://awe.sm/5GQKT) showed the response to a question posed to anti-abortion activists at a rally. The reporter asked what should happen to women who have abortions, if abortion was indeed illegal. Several people were interviewed, and none had a satisfactory answer. Most interviewed had obviously not even considered the question before. The consensus was that nothing should happen. Isn’t that something. Let’s make an unenforceable law.

My wife's cousin, a fundamentalist Christian knob, has 14 children and one on the way. He expects god to close his wife's womb. Who is really supporting these children? Not the father in any substantive way; it’s taxpayers and the children’s grandparents. Perhaps we should have a special tax assessment for Christians that don’t believe in birth control as well.

If YOU are going to insist on dictating the reproductive rights of others, YOU need to take the responsibility.