Thread by @MurielVieux

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🧵- Abortion and Adoption

1/ What makes people think that just because someone is considering abortion they will also be willing to hand their child up for adoption?

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Aborting a non-viable zygote for any reason is not the same as giving up a live child for adoption, especially to the system in the US ripped with abuse of foster and adopted children.

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Forcing rape or incest victim to give up babies after forcing them to carry a fetus to term after they were forced to endure rape or incest, is only adding trauma upon trauma

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Forcing those who would have aborted to do likewise is also traumatizing. For it is quite different to have an abortion than to know you have a child out in the world going through lord knows what.

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There is this mentality in the world that for one to be happy, they must have a) a mate b) children c) house d) money... And this is really (to me) the root of most insecurities and self loathing

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People have been brainwashed into thinking they are incomplete, lacking in something if they have not achieved these things that someone they are failed human beings.

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But to get back to my point, people who have abortions in general do not do so because they don't want children, they do so because they are not ready to have children for any number of reasons.

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There are hundreds of thousands of children in need of homes right now and yet they are not adopted, why?
Because people don't really want to help children... they want to have children, because society says they must have children.

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There are several threads/stories that adoptees have put out about their own views on adoption and how its made them feel... I suggest that those proposing adoption as an option for abortion read a few of those.

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Being an unwanted child to someone who wasn't ready to have children, let me tell you it's no walk in the park either.
So no adoption will never be a substitute for an unwanted pregnancy.