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I liked your post Jody, and the peace and comfort received from the Word of God is unsurpassable. God's word is very clear about what is right and wrong. The bottom line is whether or not each individual person desires to live by that truth or not. I still am shocked to find such discussions on an adoption forum. If it weren't for some woman making a choice to go through a pregnancy, followed by a more difficult choice to turn the job of raising her child over to someone, more often than not someone she doesn't even know, most of us would not have reason to even belong to this forum. Wow!
I won't even go into the "abstinence" discussion other than to share my own personal experience. I was a virgin when I married and I am so thankful that I was. So was my husband. We have never had to deal with the pain of giving ourselves to someone else and then losing that relationship, there aren't jealousies over former partners in our marriage, we have never had an STD, we have been happily married for nearly 27 years. We have five children, four through birth, one adopted, that I am proud to say we have raised with the same beliefs. I would be so scared for my beautiful sons, and beautiful daughters to be involved sexually with multiple partners because even though yes, it is their right, it involves so much pain and loss. As a mom I have always gone to any great lengths to prevent my children from hurting, and I dare say each and every one of you have too.
I don't think one person reading this thread can honestly argue the fact that even though it is their right to have sex with whomever they please, whenever they please, and to get pregnant with whomever, whenever, and yes even to end that pregnancy whenever they please, it would have been so much simpler, and far more rewarding to just wait for the one person whom you want to spend the rest of your life and bypass the rest of the pain. How can that be wrong?
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