Because the state of the adoption system is deplorable. If a child isn't going to receive proper care from their parents, and if they aren't adopted around early infancy the orphanages usually can't do much better either. As grim as it sounds abortion it's usually the best option for everyone involved assuming you can get past the moral roadblock.

Pride, plain and simple. People who have "uwanted" pregnancies, often think that others could not provide a good enough up bringing for a child. If you think about it, their negligence is what put the child into this difficult position in the first place. Pride is the chief cause. I would ask people with this mindset, "You have a choice, I can kill you, or you can go live in an orphanage. Which would you prefer?" I have a feeling that most of them would choose to live.

Haven't made that choice but I know why I would: Uno, why should I suffer pregnancy and childbirth? Yes, some adoptive parents will pay for your health care stuff, but will they pay for my having to put school on hold when the weight gain and the sickness and the bedrest keep me from going? Will they pay for the permanent damage to my body (my family does not lose pregnancy weight, besides everything else that gets torn up in a pregnancy)? If there's complications, then what? Two, there are *plenty* of babies. Don't give me that "too many flowers" line-- there are babies in china, babies in africa, babies in ukraine, and even babies in america who will never be adopted because people are willing to wait 2 years on a waitlist for a white american baby, and I refuse to support that. The time involvement and risk factor are much much higher with carrying a pregnancy to term. If you happen to have a political reason, well, there you go.

I DO NOT SUPPORT ABORTION AT ALL, TO ME IT IS MURDER! ADOPTION IS MUCH BETTER, CAUSE THERE ARE HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO WOULD LOVE MORE THEN ANYTHING TO BE PARENTS BUT ARE NOT ABLE TO AND THEY WOULD GIVE ANY CHILD A GOOD LOVING CARING HOME.

If first pregnancy: Why ruin my body so that someone else enjoys my baby? If not: Why be unconfortable, go without sex, and walk around with a huge belly so that someone else enjoys my baby? Not good enough reason to kill a baby, but hey! after all, I know I'll never be pregnant with an unwanted baby, so.., what do I know!

I would think that it comes down to the time. Why wait 9 months to get rid of the baby when you can have it done right away? I personally believe it is wrong to abort a baby. When it comes down to it, it is the culture that we live in now I think.

two reasons. First the child lives and the mother is left to wonder what is going on in my kid's life. Also, the kid can later find the mother and really make a mess out of the mother's life...explanations to a future husband and the secrecy. So it is easier just to kill the child. The dead only haunt our conscience. The living are another matter.

I've stated recently and I'll say again, I think those that look at pregnancy and childbirth as a mere "Inconvinience" are incredibly selfish and overlook the true difficulty of the situation. I don't know why it's more popular, but I have a few guesses. The begining of personage is not a fact, it is a matter of opinion. Many people do not view an unwanted pregnancy as the existance of a human being, rather some cells that are changing and forming that have potential to become something more (much like that of a sperm or an egg, both of which are living things). With this mindest, it would be easier on everybody involved if the pregnancy was terminated rather than allowed to go to full term. Another idea is that the basis for many abortions is the simple fact that the woman does not want to be pregnant. There are MANY reasons a person would choose not to be pregnant including but not limited to, putting her physical and/or mental health at serious risk, being subject to further abuse, ruining family and/or friend relationshsips, ex-communication from church etc. "Every mother willing, Every child wanted" I'm glad to live in a world where a woman can choose when/if to start a family and has freedom over her body. There is never one right choice for every situation and for some, adoption is a very good choice, but it seems to many, abortion is a more logical one.

i think its because people dont want to bare the embarressment of caring a child and want to find an easy way out

because of ALL the bullshit and jumping through bloody hoops to adopt that the mother and adoptive parents have to go through ...80% of it is just red tape and crap and bloody money making

why is nobody stating the obvious? a baby grows inside you for nine months, the mother will become attached even if she knows she cannot support the child. can any mother out there imagine having their baby taken away from them? i'm not saying i agree with abortions as i desperatly want a child but am unable to have one but i can understand how an abortion would be easier

Well in my mind i wouldent do either. But maybe people that have an unwanted pregnancie abort rather then put up for adoption because then they know tha they wont have the " i wonder how my childs growin up " going through there mind all the time. and they wont fear that one day tha child will come looking for his/her mother, instead they get rid of those fears by aborting till they are ready to bring up a child .

I don't believe in abortion, but I do understand why someone would choose that option. First, a pregnancy can be very disruptive to your life. In additon, some people experience extreme morning sickness for part of the pregnancy, it can be very uncomfortable, and it plays havoc with your body. Second, there are few women who could carry a baby inside them and not grow to love that baby. So when the baby is born, it's incredibly painful and emotional to turn that baby over to someone else to raise. Can you imagine how a mother who gave up her child would feel every year on that child's birthday? I'm lucky that the biological mother of my daughter made that sacrifice because otherwise I would never have experienced parenthood because I never could get pregnant.

People like to sweep their problems under the rug and like a quick fix. Abortion seems to fill that need.

because they do not want to have to look at the child before they ruin its life and they don't want to go through the pain of birth

Because they are selfish and self-centered.

Look at our system. Look how many foster kids and other adoptees wind up screwed up, or stuck in an orphanage until they "age out". Look how many never learn to form meaningful relationships because they never had a REAL family. If you think EVERY child is wanted, then why are so many unadopted? How many are YOU willing to take in? How much will you pay those contemplating abortion in order to bring the kid to term? Will YOU then take care of that kid? In addition to all of the others that you rescued? What about the strain on our economy and our environment from the rapid population increase? Are pro-lifers willing to effectively gut our world so they can impose their moral code on EVERYBODY in a vain attempt to get head-of-the-line at the Pearly Gates?

So they don't heave to deal with it.

girls may not want anyone to know that they got pregnant or had sex.

maybe because of the child abuse is rising and people starting to use their common sense not to have the baby if it is not wanted.

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