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fiscally conservative, socially liberal, antifeminist girl i post about current issues with side dish of humour...
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“Just give it up for adoption!”

Whenever the topic of abortion comes up in my conservative Christian community, the inevitable response is, “Why don’t they just give it up for adoption?” I was raised with a halcyon vision of adoption being the most beautiful miracle that could emerge from an unintended pregnancy. Newborn adoption can be a wonderful blessing for many people. It is not, however, the perfect alternative to abortion that I had believed it was.

  • First, pregnant people overwhelmingly reject adoption. In the US in 1989, less than 2% of single white pregnant people and practically 0% of single black pregnant people placed their children for adoption. These numbers have not changed in 26 years.
  • A significant increase in the number of people placing children for adoption would soon exhaust the supply of would-be adopters. As of 2002, only 614,000 people under age 45 had ever completed an adoption. Only a minority of these people adopted American newborns. Most adopted from foster care, from a relative, from a new spouse with children, or from other countries. If every person who got an abortion last year placed the child for adoption instead, the backlog of those looking to adopt would be wiped out in less than a year.
  • Adoption is expensive. Not just to the adopters, who must pay between $10,000 and $25,000 in the US to adopt a newborn, but to those placing a child as well. While placing a child for adoption is usually free, lost wages, loss to education, and health risks from pregnancy must be paid for.
  • Pregnancy can have a wide variety of negative health consequences including anemia, UTI’s, hypertension, diabetes, morning sickness, hemorrhoids, yeast infections, placental previa, placental abruption, preeclampsia, depression, and anxiety, in addition to the significant physical danger presented by childbirth.
  • Deciding to put a child up for adoption doesn’t save pregnant people from having their lives endangered by pregnancy. It doesn’t make the pregnancy symptom-free so that the pregnant person never has to miss a day of work. It doesn’t allow the baby to teleport out of the uterus at the end of gestation, saving the pregnant person from the experience of childbirth and having to take time off work to heal.
  • Adoptees are four times more likely to attempt suicide than non-adopted peers. Treating adoption strictly as a beautiful thing doesn’t allow many adoptees to express their true feelings.
  • Pro-lifers frequently try to talk about how the majority of people who get abortions supposedly experience severe emotional trauma (though this claim has been discredited). They never seem to talk about the number of people who experience emotional trauma after placing a child for adoption. One study found that 12 to 20 years later, 75% of people who placed a child for adoption still felt grief and loss. Seventy-five percent.
  • Having a child taken back by a birth parent who changes their mind is unspeakably painful for would-be adoptive parents. One woman I talked to described it as “the closest thing I’ve experienced to the death of a child.” Another woman had a baby girl taken back from her fifteen years ago. She said it still stung.
  • Most important, many people just don’t want to be pregnant. They could have tokophobia, or they could have prescriptions for medications that are inadvisable to take while pregnant, or they could have a job that they would likely lose if they continued a pregnancy, or they could be in an abusive relationship and need to abort in order to protect themselves, or they could just not want a foreign entity growing inside of them for nine months. Adoption is an alternative to being a parent. It is not an alternative to being pregnant.

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im really proud of the people who are like “school’s getting busy so im taking a hiatus see u guys later :)” i could have 14 hours of homework with 6 tests tomorrow and still be sweatin it out on tumblr dot com 

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OH WOW, YOU BELIEVE IN BRITAIN’S SELF-DETERMINATION AND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY? YOU’RE JUST LIKE [the people who attempted to destroy Britain’s self-determination and national sovereignty], WOW.

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RANDOM GUY ON TV: IF YOU’VE TAKEN A SHIT BEFORE HACKERS CAN TRACE THAT BACK AND STEAL YOUR IDENTITY

PARENTS: 😱😱😱😱😱😱

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  • The resistance movement against President Donald Trump is getting a new member: Sir Patrick Stewart.
  • In an appearance on The View, Stewart announced that Trump’s presidency has inspired him to finally apply for U.S. citizenship.
  • “I’m not a [U.S.] citizen,” Stewart said on The View. “However, there is, maybe it’s the only good thing, as the result of this election: I am now applying for citizenship. Because I want to be an American too.” Read more (3/3/17 2:50 PM)

SHIIIIIT wtf is Trump gonna do??????? 

so he’s becoming a “legal” non-criminal citizen because he doesn’t like trump the us president so he wants to become a us citizen under trump cuz he doesn’t like him so that… what exactly?

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So, like, learning about the gender constructs and sexual customs of Iron Age peoples is very interesting and important for all sorts of reasons, but in actual application I couldn’t give less of a fuck because there are queer Heathens existing today.

Same with race. Yes, there were Asian and probably African and possibly Native American Vikings, and that’s super cool, but if all the Vikings were white it still wouldn’t make racism okay.

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