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I want to talk about choices. When one becomes pregnant, one is told they have three choices: abortion, adoption, or parenting.
Let's talk about #adoption as a "choice". The fact is, when you choose adoption, you are obliterating another person's power of choice. 1-
Let's talk about #adoption as a "choice". The fact is, when you choose adoption, you are obliterating another person's power of choice. 1-
When you abort, that choice only affects you and possibly your partner. The non-sentient, parasitic clump of cells in your uterus has no feelings or opinions. You are discarding unwanted biological material, and it only causes *you pain if it pains anyone.
When you relinquish 2-
When you relinquish 2-
a child, that choice affects not only you, but the child you relinquish, the child's other parent, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings. The choice you are making obliterates the child's choice and any true agency they hold over their life. You are making a choice 3-
that affects you momentarily, but signing away the child's rights over information they should have a right to at adulthood ad eternium. That means "forever". The child can never undo the choice you made and will suffer the consequences for it for the rest of their lives. 4-
Adoption is the only "choice" named above that not only permanently affects you, but a child over whom you will have no influence in the future. Ad eternium. It is the only choice that causes the participants to grieve for the living for the rest of their lives.
I don't think 5-
I don't think 5-
anyone should have the choice to inflict this level.of damage on another human being, regardless of how inconvenient that human's existence may be. 6-6
