Who thinks the US needs more unwanted children?

[bleedingheart]

Vote in my poll and let me know if you think the US needs/wants more unwanted children.

Given the fact that here in the US people will go to many other exotic locales to adopt but will ignore the countless children who are left forgotten in foster homes or in orphanages...and some of these same folks are against legal abortion...clearly there must be some sort of unwanted children quota that people expect to have....

Call me crazy but with so many children in need here in the US and abroad....why not fix that problem first before adding more to it...but perhaps I am wrong...

Health and human services groups in different states have lost kids they have in the system because they are so poorly funded and in many cases overworked. Social workers generally get paid squat..funny how we don't mind seeing baseball players with multi-million dollar salaries but yet people don't think that perhaps those who work with and care for children should make even a decent living wage...(like being able to buy a modest home..) But that aside...it surely looks like we are going to add to the unwanted children in the nation in the near future and I don't hear people looking to add anything to the social services sector to make a difference...hell we don't even want to fix the problems that are there cuz that costs money....

So I am starting to think that there is some sort of deep seated desire in some people to revisit the Dickensonian like conditions of the 19th century with the streets teaming with little ones that on one wants...

[LizMoonstar]

1. the foster home kids are too old and not white and 'clean' enough.

if these people really feel there's a child shortage, and have to have a 'new' one rather than one from the system, instead of outlawing abortion to get one, why not try paying women to have them for you? it'd probably cost less than the current adoption market, and is less evil than making another slave class.

[SPKrazy]

2. All Children Should Be Wanted n/t

[bleedingheart]

3. Unfortunately that is not the case in the world we live in today.

There are unwanted children everywhere in the world and to top it all, they are the poor unfortunate souls who get kicked around more because they aren't wanted.

[northofdenali]

4. The most absurd, idiotic and SICK reason I've read so far

for not aborting a fetus resulting from rape or incest was in Friday's Chicago Trib LTTE. Not snipping, as it is public (I think) - let me know if I'm wrong on the no-snip, mods:

"If I understand it right, the pro-abortion advocates believe that it is somehow acceptable to kill one’s unborn child if the child was the result of rape or incest. Apparently a mother’s desire to forget the past trumps the child’s right to live. What did the child do to deserve that? Doesn’t it have the same right to life as the mother?

I can understand how women might believe that access to abortion should be provided in cases of rape or incest. They believe that somehow having the child would further victimize the mother.

But I wonder if they had considered that having the child provides undeniable proof of the crime. An abortion provides an incestuous relative or rapist with a get-out-of-jail free card; it effectively thwarts prosecution of these heinous crimes and allows the perpetrator to continue his abuse.

Nathan and Mary Crawford

Palatine
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_opinion_letters/ :puke::puke::puke::puke:

[readmoreoften]

7. Fetus as crime scene evidence.

Exhibit A: take my unwanted six month old. Who's the father? Why Mr. Rapist is! Oh, he's saying that I had consentual sex. Huh, that's what he would've said without the baby. Lot a good childhood done me.

[f-bush]

5. Hell no...after the second child you should be taxed extra for each one!

meaning both the biologoical mother and father, unless mother was raped, incest etc.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Um, hello?

Where do YOU think we're gonna get the army we need to invade Iran then?

lol