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Showing posts with label Temporary Foster Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Temporary Foster Care. Show all posts
Monday, June 13, 2016
There are 182 Signatures on This Petition! Help It Grow!
Because of online political involvement over the past months, I've neglected this petition. Now that the primaries are practically over, I'm back to my primary activity. Months ago, I began a petition to get legislation creating a nationwide abortion alternative. It would give those facing unplanned pregnancies several years of temporary foster care. I have just shortened this period to two years, in recognition that a child needs stability. Two years is still ample time to allow birth parents to improve their own lives to be able to comfortably raise children. While n amount of time in the foster care is ideal in any sense of the world, it's far better than being murdered! This would offer those facing unplanned pregnancies another incentive to choose life for their babies. Temporary foster care isn't available widely or nationwide or pregnancy resource centers would present it as an abortion alternative. The fact that they don't proves we need nationwide legislation, so many babies would be saved through another abortion alternative! If you have already signed this petition, SHARE it! If you haven't yet done so, ADD YOUR NAME! Thank you!
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Imagine Another Option for Those Facing Crisis Pregnancies
You find yourself dealing with an unplanned or unplanned or crisis pregnancy.
You are not yet ready for the responsibilities of parenthood, often because of economic reasons. Maybe you do not have stable employment or permanent housing.
You hear the slogan, "Adoption, not abortion" and "Just place your baby in adoption; many parents would love your baby." But the thought of placing a baby you carry for nine months is like thinking about cutting off one of your body parts.
Abortion? You do not want to do that, either. Isn't that killing a baby? You probably do not want that on your conscience.
Daily, many, many girls, women, boyfriends and husbands find themselves dealing with pregnancies they do not feel prepared, at least at the time. Daily, up to 4000 of these pregnancies are terminated because the biological parents do not feel ready for parenthood at the time but cannot bear the thought of adoption.
Imagine that there was another option in crisis or unplanned pregnancies, one that would not be a perfect solution but that would open up another option for those in crisis pregnancies and serve as an incentive for many more of them to choose life for their babies.
Maybe many more lives would be saved and many more abortions would be prevented.
I'm talking about temporary foster care. I know that, right away, many pro-adoption people and adoptive parents may object that this would open the door to allow birth moms to place their babies in adoption with the possibility of reclaiming those babies years later. No, this is not a call to introduce such a loophole in adoption laws. The babes in temporary foster care would not be available for adoption so this scenario would not become an issue. I'm very much for adoption and that they remain safe and secure.
Some may argue that children need stability and that they should not have to live even in temporary foster care even as their biological parents are building their lives to be in the position to raise their own children. Those who identify themselves as prolife do not seem to realize that this option, imperfect as it is, would itself be a motive for many in crisis pregnancies to choose life for their babies as they know they would be able to regain their babies in a few years after finding employment and housing and/or education. Isn't temporary foster care a much more humane option for babies than abortion, even though temporary foster care is not perfect?
Those in the Parental Alienation movement may argue that this is a state issue and to keep Congress out of it. But we can say that of many issues that have become law of the land. There is a new petition that calls on Congress to make a law, effective in all 50 states, that would allow those facing crisis pregnancies the option of placing their babies in temporary foster care, with a four year limit to prevent abuse of this option and protect the children involved.
With the admitted imperfections of this option, it is far better than the option of ending an unborn child's life because your perceived lack of options. And can we really expect abortions to end as long as we do not offer those facing crisis pregnancies more options to choose life for their babies?
If you agree, please visit here to sign petition
Thank You!
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