Chode

It isn't just that I think many attitudes toward fertility clinics are hypocritical; I think couples who can't conceive by the usual means who resort to these clinics and ignore the living, breathing children that need parents make a mockery of the concept of "respect for life".

I know a childless family in my town that has adopted 4 children, and is fostering 2 more. Some of these kids come from backgrounds that many prospective parents would find "risky". Some have been abused in just about every meaning of the word, a couple are the children of mothers who were heavy drug users during pregnancy. In 2005, of 115,000 children waiting for adoption, 52,000 were actually adopted.

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