Congratulations on your baby. You are truly blessed. :)
HERE is a question for the debate: " Who here would have opened their home , loved, provided for, and taken responsibility for that child that raped woman would have had?"
I would have. No doubts at all, and I am speaking truthfully from my heart. And I would not be considered a viable candidate for adoption, though I would have been considered a viable candidate for being aborted. I have MS.
On the adoption issue, I read about many FReepers who have similar problems with the system (including having the adoptee returned to the birth mother even after a number of years), and many eventually resort to adopting babies from overseas.
I would have. No doubts at all, and I am speaking truthfully from my heart. And I would not be considered a viable candidate for adoption, though I would have been considered a viable candidate for being aborted. I have MS.
My best girlfriend has MS as well. Like you, she has a loving, truly godly heart.
Here in Michigan, we had a case in Ann arbor that was heart-breaking. couple adopted a child from the Pacific Northwest and then moved here.
Three years later, Birth-Mom ( an unmarried substance abuser with a dubious boyfriend) shows up and says, "I've changed my mind".
The couple, and the little girl, were devestated and the spinless judge in the case allowed the child to be taken. AWFUL footage of crying little girl being loaded ibnto car to be sent off with strangers. I cried all night watching it.
I made it a point to vote against that judge when the time came, over that issue.
Adoption laws here need to be loosened up, and they need to be iron-clad to prevent this sort of thing.
Tia