Always a choice.

A bulletin, from someone on a message board. Don’t know who wrote it, but I like it, and today is a day to refresh anyone’s memories with it, or allow others to read it for the first time.

“I tend to be wordy so I will attempt to make this short and to the point.

1. How many pro lifers are attempting or have adopted an unwanted child. Not just a healthy white child but a minority drug addicted baby. They “talk the talk” but do they “walk the walk”?

2. All of the religious who put so much energy into guilting those who are pro choice could put that energy in creating volunteer programs in churches to provide parenting skills, daycare and support single mothersor low income unskilled parents. Where are they when the children are born? Maybe women would want to have babies if they felt they had support. What’s the point in working and paying 80% of your wages in daycare because you lack skills to make more than minimum? Where’s the community support then? The same people who want you to have the baby call you trash when you get government support to survive.

3. Many pro lifers are the same ones who bitch about the cost of public welfare. Make abortion illegal and I promise you welfare will explode. AND your taxes to pay for this will increase!!

4. Social Services is already overwhelmed with unwanted, neglected and abused children that have no love, support or social skills to succeed in the world. Yes some get lucky but that’s a small percentage compared to the ones that never get adopted and live forever in group homes and foster homes…and oh yeah your taxes pay for that too.

5. My relationship with God is mine and very personal. I answer to God and not you or your idea of God. Regardless of what you believe, God did not appoint you as a spokesperson for my life or choices. If life exists prior to birth then God will take that up with me. It’s not your job. The more you focus on what I am doing the less you focus on your own “sin”.

6.When you adopt a mentally or physically handicapped unwanted child, work with the local church and create supportive programs for no income or low income parent/s, support free access to birth control for all (including minors), volunteer your time and energy to helping the situation instead of judging me, playing God or standing on the corner with obscene pictures of bloody babies to guilt us then I will take your point of view seriously.

If you worked at the Department of Social Services and saw the amount of unwanted children that I have then you may think differently. It’s real easy to sit back and say things when you haven’t really experienced the sadness of unwanted life.

It should always remain a choice.”

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