Ow, my back. *wince*

[apocalypsos]

-- Shame on the mainstream media, when the women from The View are the ones asking the hard-hitting questions of John McCain. Yes, even Elisabeth Hasselbeck, whom I hate with a passion.

-- I can't contain my rage at the story that Governor Palin wanted rape victims to pay for their own rape kits, which is so appallingly offensive I can't even think of anything to say to that.

On the other hand, am I the only one who gets extremely uncomfortable whenever her decision to carry a Down's baby to term is used as evidence of her hypocrisy regarding a woman's right to choose? Granted, every pregnancy should be a woman's decision to continue or not, but ... a Down's baby? Really?

-- My back is still killing me. I need to go soak in the tub for a while. Ow.

Comments

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

*nods* Adoption can work, of course - but I can understand why some people have mixed feelings about it, given that we as a society are in a rapidly changing place when it comes to adoption. The secrecy is unravelling, which is encouraging for those for whom open adoption is a good fit, but prohibiting for others. There's no 'going upstate to visit your aunt' now - it's nine visible months of all the pain and emotional turmoil of pregnancy and labour, with friends and near-strangers alike all asking you afterwards what happened to the baby. And it's knowing that the child could well track you down within the next eighteen years, as the privacy rights of birth parents dwindle.

We hear about the overloaded foster system, and adoptive parents holding out for white, healthy newborns; there's the potential clustersmuck of transracial adoption; legal and social controversy about gay couples and single men and women adopting; rising infertility rates and people insisting that fertile couples have no right to adopt healthy newborns; and news stories about disabled children being horrifically abused by foster or adoptive parents. Personally, I'm open to adopting someday - but while I acknowledge adoption as a possibility, it's one I would quickly discount were I faced with an unwanted pregnancy.