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[kempermentor]

> Kemper now:
> What is a few hundred dollars compared to the thousands or hundreds
of thousands of tax dollars that could be spent on an unwanted child.
> 
> CJ now:
> I was going to bow out of this as I'm not sure an abortion debate is
good for OT-Chatter. But ye pushed me butt'n, Kemper.
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1. What the hell is an "unwanted child"? 
> 
> 2. When and how did "unwanted" become code for "unloved"? 
> 
> 3. Where's the evidence linking unplanned children to higher rates
of child abuse or lower quality of life?
> 
> 4. Not being omniscient beings, what the hell makes us think we're
qualified either to predict any child's future or (assuming
statistical evidence for #3 exists (it doesn't)) to judge what
"quality of life" is sufficient to guarantee a child the right to
live? And are we willing to apply those same standards to "wanted"
children?
> 
> My apologies for my harsh tone but as the adoptive father of a girl
who was abandoned at birth on an anonymous doorstep (likely by an
unwed teenage mother), there's no quicker wage to engage my ire than
to suggest my daughter was somehow prime fodder for an abortion mill.

Kemper now:
I doubt your sincerity about avoiding an abortion debate when it was
you who brought up FOCA.  

I would love to answer your questions, but you ask them without the
openness for an answer.  It's just dogma on what worked for you.  

God bless the mother who had an unwanted child and gave her to you.  

Kemper