Are you really pro-life or are you just pro-birth?

I have often thought I would be happy to adopt if it were not so cost prohibited. I certainly could afford to feed and clothe another child, but I can't afford the fees involved in adoption. I do support children's homes though my church and my actions (we spent a week last summer volunteering at a home for children). Nor do I support war, but I do support our troops that are involved in war and yes I do think there is a difference.

You are absolutely right. I am pro-life. I support our Pregnancy Resource Center that promotes adoption and counseling for pregnant women. It would be very irresponsible of me to adopt a lot of children since I do not have the resources to raise more children.

"how can you advocate for abortion to be outlawed if you are not helping the orphans and adopting unwanted children?" The simple answer to this is that pro-life people feel that it is better for a child to have a chance at life, however difficult, than to have no chance at all. Many orphanages are funded by churches. Many pro-life people attend church and donate to their churches which subsequently fund these orphanages. I personally have volunteered in soup kitchens, and orphanages as well as organizations that help terminally ill children. The big difference though, is that when I do that, "I" am choosing where my money goes and choosing to volunteer my time and money to help. I also know exactly where my time and money goes. I thoroughly research any and every non-profit I donate time and money to. It's why I won't involve myself with the United Way, Police Athletic League, and several other non-profits who fail to spend their money appropriately (97% of donations to PAL are used to pay the telemarketers who collect those donations). Since government transparency is nonexistant, I don't want my money going to social programs run by the government. Even if it was transparent, I don't believe in forced charity. For me to support a war I have to feel that there is a greater purpose for it. I feel that the innocent lives lost in Afghanistan are nothing like the innocent people being viciously raped and murdered by the Taliban. Many people in America have been protesting the Taliban since the mid 90's due to their treatment of women. Since the country really didn't have official murder records and only about 34% of the population is even literate we have no way of knowing how many people were dying there every day before the war began.

I was reading something that said "the most dangerous place for a baby is in his or her mother's womb" the other day. The aborted babies are the missing people of the world. There must be many that would have been really great people. Perhaps one of them might have come up with a cure for cancer. I am pro-life and would never have an abortion. I admired Mother Theresa when she was alive. She helped many poor people and taking care of orphaned children. I am against war because I believe in peace. I am a primary school teacher. I have helped a few children that were abused at home and got them a safe place to live. I have taught the children to be the sort of people that will help charities that assist the poor and save the orphans.

I am neither pro-choice or pro-life. i am 'pro-middle'. Both camps are extreme in their outlook and approach. I believe individual case of pregnancy is different, it should be look at individually and deal with the appropriate solution. It is wrong to throw at pregnant women into jail for wanting an abortion, and also wrong to allow all abortions without looking closely at the state of pregnancy and consequences, it is a complex issue that need lengthy consultation and discussion to find the right solution for the benefit of the fetus and the mother.

I am pro-life thank you very much. I'm a foster mother and my husband and I are discussing the posibility of adopting soon. Besides, abortion is murder because MOST abortions are because the woman "is not ready" to be a mom. It is just the most convenient form of "birth control" for them. War on the other hand, is a necessity that you people need to open your eyes and realize. Those casualties are horrible yes, but not intentional. They are not killed on purpose... abortion however, is knowingly killing your baby on purpose because you don't "feel like" taking care of your responsibilies. That's the differece... but if you (or really the majority of people anymore) had even remotely the slightest bit of common sense, you'd already know that.

AS far as adoption is concerned, the adoption agencies regulate who is to adopt in what they consider "the best interest of the child" and if they were to say people who are pro=life have to prove they are pro=life by adopting, then they might give them children they are unable to care for - for instance, someone with medical knowledge could care for a handicapped child, but someone who just has a grade four education or is of the working class may not know what to do when the child goes into convulsions. Also sometimes the adoption agencies have their own agenda and I am sure, like those grandparents in Scotland, there are people who would love to adopt children, but the social workers decide that they are too religious, not the same ethnic group, do not make enough money, are too strict, etc. so they are refused adoption. So it is not that they do not want to adopt, it is the red tape that gets in their way and I am sure that you would not want them to go to blackmarket babies - or do you? Now as for wars, there are just and unjust wars. Do you really want to live in a dictatorship because no one is getting killed? That is peace at all costs. That is not peace at all. That is slavery. Of course the innocent get killed, but those who are casualities of war are not deliberately murdered. The troops and the airplane shooting the bombs thought the enemy soldiers did not have their families visiting and they thought that building was a munitions factory not a school and they did not expect the terrorists to hide in a church. I think that you want pro=life people to be punished by forcing them to adopt children they cannot handle so that they will be so overwhelmed that they will become pro-choice. As has been said, a method of your madness.

i am both pro-life and pro-birth...if you are not pro-life..you hate life and if you are not pro-birth you still hate life...because inside it is the word life...life is an essence to God..this is my idea and i know there are people in the world supported this idea..happy mylotting..

Eh, I'm going to try not to sound angry in this, even though I am, so bear with me for a moment or two. I can't claim to know you. I think we agree on some things and disagree on others, and I usually respect your opinions, but I do think you miss the point a lot on this one. You seem to be against moralizing or legislating morality at least, and yet you are making sweeping moral judgments that I find kind of pointless and short-sighted. I am against murder. I am against the murder of any human being. I am against the murder of adults, children, infants, and unborn infants. It is not about just babies, it is about the human race in general. I do not think innocent people should be killed. You could easily say I'm pro-life with regards to adults. Does that mean I am also responsible for caring for all the potential adult murder victims in the country? Should all pro-lifers be carrying the weight of the country while everyone else gets a free ride, because it was the pro-life people who thought they should have a chance to live in the first place! Of course not. That would be an absurd thing to say. It is also absurd to say that you have no right to be pro-life if you don't adopt children to become a foster parent or give money to orphanages. What about people who are too poor to give their money to orphanages or to adopt children. Do they not have the right to be pro-life? What about someone like myself who is not old enough to adopt children, a student with no income. Do I not have the right to be pro-life? How come you are telling me that my morality is illegitimate while trying to press your own brand of morality - charity - on me? Don't get me wrong. I do plan to adopt someday as well as have kids of my own. I have donated both time and money to soup kitchens and the like before. I am not advocating against charity by any means. I am simply saying that your argument is offensive to me. You are questioning my (and the majority of Americans) sincere belief that abortion is murder simply because you don't think we are charitable enough. First of all, what do you know about it? And second of all, a crime is a crime is a crime. As for the war thing...I'm not even going to go there, because you simply should know better than that.

This is a very interesting post. I myself am Pro-life for my-self but Pro-choice for everyone else. Of course I wish people didn't have to consider abortions but sometimes that is the way it is. I don't want to take away that avenue for someone just because its not the one that I would take. I do agree that when most people say that they are Pro-Life it means that they are just anti- abortion. I'm not saying all pro-life people are like that that its just what this label of being Pro-Life has been made by our polictics and the media. This term will forever be linking to the abortion issue. It is not an all incompassing term of what a person truly believes in when it comes to life, not just unborn life, but people that are here now.