Attorney: Disabled Miami woman's pregnancy TERMINATED (FL rape case)

http://www.heraldtribune.com ^ | 5-30-03 | AP

[najida]

This is the honest reality- when people say there "thousands of loving families waiting for babies to adopt" they are referring to healthy white infants. I don't what race the woman is, but the truth is that is she is black and the baby was born with special needs it would languish in foster care.
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You are soooooo on the money!

[Under the Radar]

This is the honest reality- when people say there "thousands of loving families waiting for babies to adopt" they are referring to healthy white infants. I don't what race the woman is, but the truth is that is she is black and the baby was born with special needs it would languish in foster care.

Yes, in part due to racist social workers, who maintain that white people cannot raise an "authentic" black child. Lose/lose situation.

[cardinal4]

I think you are hard being a little hard on the Grandmother. The burden of raising a severely retarded daughter, and having to live with the knowledge that she has been raped, is a burden I know I couldnt handle. Im prolife, but I wont begrudge the grandmother or the judge in this case. This is an awful case with no winners....except for the rapist who appears to have gotten away with it. Im going home to hug my kids.

[SwankyC]

The abortion and tubal ligation to prevent future pregnancies were performed late Thursday

Forced sterilization and abortion, Holy s***, we're communist China now.

[tiamat]

Under the Radar wrote:

I saw enough abortion-as-birth-control in college to make me pro-life.

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Glad you found the post thought-provoking. So far, it's getting little action. I intend to bring it up again. Seems like every day there is an abortion thread on FR that gets ugly FAST.

This is America, and we all get to have whatever opinions we want.
What I find so disgusting on some of these threads is how willingly people will condemn, how often they will cheer violence over this, how pious they are ( and how publicly! ) and yet offer NOTHING constructive and certainly no solutions to the problem.

I know that it is unrealistic to expect everyone who is Pro-Life to adopt. Let's face it, kids are expensive and not everyone is financially stable. Also, some of us are simply too old.

There ARE however, on Free Republic, a lot of Pro-Life folks who DO have room, who COULD take a child into their home, and who do not, either because it has not occured to them ( hope these posts are helping with that) or because, despite their apparent holiness, these people are NOT serious about the cause. They just get off on making a big, hairy thing of themselves and on hurlingl brim-stone

I'm pretty sure Scripture has a lot to say about people who make noise but do not act on their faith.

And then there is the Turn-Off Factor. When they DO argue Pro-Life, some folks here and elsewhere are very hateful in their approach. REALLY turns people off who might otherwise be convinced to stick a pregnancy out or to switch sides.

And yes, I would feel easier about the whole thing if there was a drive to adopt, and if laws were made to make it easier to adopt. My own little girl would LOVE a brother or sister, ( asks for one every Christmas or birthday!) but we are not "suitable" adoptors due to my husband's condition.

The "abortion as birth control" p*sses me off no end, especially as we DO have good reliable birth control in this country.

Thank you for your comments.

Tia

[Aquinasfan]

The mother of the woman objected to a C-Section to allow a live birth!

That's perverse and sickening.

[Aquinasfan]

I fostered then by myself (working full time) with my mother as my 'second' parent. When she died two years later, I quit (a broken heart, grief and I am on the road too much).

God bless you, sister.

[Aquinasfan]

but the truth is that is she is black and the baby was born with special needs it would languish in foster care.

That may be true, but it's still an insufficient reason to kill the baby.

[Aquinasfan]

What I find so disgusting on some of these threads is how willingly people will condemn, how often they will cheer violence over this, how pious they are ( and how publicly! ) and yet offer NOTHING constructive and certainly no solutions to the problem.

I certainly condemn murder in the strongest possible terms. The problem isn't complex. It's a dilemma: death or anything else. Anything else is preferable to death. The decision is simple.

What I find disgusting is the widespread, reflexive choice of death to any other alternative. We certainly live in a culture of death.

[tiamat]

Aquinasfan wrote:

What I find disgusting is the widespread, reflexive choice of death to any other alternative. We certainly live in a culture of death.

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Which is precisely why I would like to see adoption laws changed to facilitate good homes for children.

Tia

[stuartcr]

Of course we live in a culture of death, we have since the beginning of history, it's what all the mystery is about. Being born and dying are the main things that connect all beings.

[Aquinasfan]

Of course we live in a culture of death, we have since the beginning of history

The phrase actually refers to a culture centered around death, rather than life. This becomes obvious when the societal default position regarding the fate of a healthy, unborn child is execution.

[stuartcr]

When quoting, you should include the entire sentence.