#Prochoice and #Prolife, this is why the Romanian orphan crisis came about. I think we can agree this is not what pro-lifers in the US want. "In 1966 Ceausescu’s regime made abortion illegal and each family had an obligation to the state to have at least four children....
"In a world where 10 eggs, 4 kilos of flour, 1 kilo of meat, and a pound of butter per person was the norm for a month’s supply of food, many Romanian families could not possibly support more than the required minimum quota of children, and that too was done with great efforts.."
"However, with abortion being illegal, many parents could only keep their first four children and put the rest in orphanages.
Also, during Ceausescu’s reign, frequent malnutrition and low standards of living caused the life expectancy rate to be significantly lower than...
in most developed countries. This led to many parents dying at an early age. Hence, many relatives, being as poor as the parents that died, had no choice but to put the surviving children in orphanages. Moreover, the malnutrition of mothers during pregnancy...
and the lack of routine pregnancy drugs/medical attention led to many babies being born with birth defects. These unfortunate children would be immediately put into orphanages not only because they would require expensive and unavailable medical attention, but also...
because they would be a burden on the family later on in life by not being able to support themselves and the family."web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/tr…
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@prochoiceforal1 You seem to enjoy making up your own definitions for words. The agreed-upon dictionary definition for forced pregnancy is the one I gave. The agreed-upon dictionary definition of alive is the one I gave.
@prochoiceforal1 How can something "not alive" deliberately do anything? That requires knowingly and intentionally harming.
@prochoiceforal1 “I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.” Faye Wattleton, Former #PlannedParenthood Director
@HumanDefenseINI To say, “You can’t be pro-life unless you’re willing to go out and adopt all the unwanted babies that will be born,” is absolutely ridiculous is like saying, “You can’t be against animal cruelty unless you go out and adopt all the puppies,”
The foster care system’s primary purpose is reunification; not adoption. Children are placed in the foster care system not, primarily, because they have no parents, but because they have had to be removed from the home for various reasons. These children are not up for adoption.
According to the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute, ELEVEN percent of abortions in the United States take place after the first trimester, and national estimates suggest that D&E accounts for roughly 95% of these procedures. A second trimester D&E #abortion 1/4
is a blind procedure during which the fetus and other tissue are extracted piece by piece. The toughest part of a D&E abortion is extracting the head, which is about the size of a plum and is now free floating inside the uterine cavity. 2/4
During the #SecondTrimester, 15 to 23 weeks after the woman's last menstrual period, abortions are typically performed over a two-day period. At week sixteen LMP, the baby’s fingerprints are visible, and the child’s organs are visible through his or her thin skin. The child’s 3/4