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Originally Posted by SchmennaLeigh
My favorite is when I'm involved in these kind of political discussions in real life with people who don't know that I'm a birth mother. I just sit and silently explode inside. Thankfully, an adoptive mom friend of mine spoke up the other day and put someone in their place. Whew.  |
Obviously I don't have your same perspective on it, but...yeah.
I get really twitchy around election time because the discussion always comes up, and it's always presented so simplistically. I feel like a broken record, but I really want people to understand how complicated it is.
I don't particularly care whether or not someone supports reproductive choice; I just want people to stop saying things like: "Oh, well women who get pregnant & don't want their babies should just give their babies up [because they always use that phrasing...] for adoption; think of all those couples out there who are waiting to adopt..." It's just not that simple, and if anyone saying those sorts of things thought about it for a nanosecond they'd understand that.
(And also? I
really resent being used as a pawn in the argument. I am waiting to adopt. I support choice. I understand that for some reason this boggles people's minds, but I really wish they'd stop using me to try to bolster their argument. It is
because women have choices that I am comfortable with adopting; I don't think I could do it otherwise.)