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• Sunday, October 5, 2008 07:53 AM

  Heru-ur - You didn't Answer the Question! (Are you a republican or what)

  In response to your courteous comment, allow me to point out yet more short-sightedness on your part:

  In this country only the girl gets to decide if the baby lives or dies. Legally the boy has no say; so I did not mention him other than to point out that everyone seems surprised at where babies come from.

  Well, that's not really the issue. The issue is whether or not we as a government can force that decision one way or the other. If your experience is that the boy doesn't have any say in the matter, I can counter that with much experience with the boy wanting the abortion and the girl having the baby anyway. I don't think any of us are surprised at where babies come from - what I'm surprised at is that you don't mention that the BOY has a choice of having sex or not or using protection or not or being "fixed" or not. Why do you put all the burden on the girl?

  I never see anyone mention that the girl could take the baby to term and then turn it over for adoption to the many couples (and singles) that would love to take an American baby rather than have to go overseas for a child.

  Nonsense. Adoption happens all the time. Lots of healthy, ethnically preferred girls have babies and give them up. I have close personal experience with that as well. However, there are more unwanted babies than willing couples to adopt. What if there were no abortion? Who would adopt all those babies? Get serious. Now you're going to get racist on me as well? Sheesh.

  I have females in my own family who have faced this decision. I need not be female to understand as long as the babies being killed are male as well as female.

  We will just have to disagree about this "murder" and "killing" definition. But, I wonder if you were alluding to what goes on in China?

  I think that adoption would be a better solution if the god damn government would stay out of it. I know several well-off women who would pay the girls expenses and take very good care of the baby; perhaps even pay her a profit. The government will send folks to jail that try that scheme.

  There are not nearly enough "well off women" to pay the tab; surrogate mothers are still legal, I think. Most of the time, however, babies are born to girls who can't afford them and in circumstances less than ideal. Even in good environments, kids are born to parents who throw them to the wolves. Take Sarah Palin, for example. heh

  —Retzilian Read Retzilian's other letters
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