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Hi there.

I'm certain you've gotten this question more times than you can count but,

What is the response to people that say "if you care so much about babies in the womb, why don't you help children who are suffering elsewhere/adopt or foster children?"

Sorry I didn’t answer this sooner!

No one person or organization can handle every issue. Organizations specialize, and that doesn’t mean the people who work for them don’t care about people outside the scope of their mission.

Also, most pro-lifers advocate for pro-family policies and support organizations that support struggling families. Part of the solution to the abortion problem is empowering families to care for their children. This should mean less children ending up in foster care, not more.

Often there’s a claim baked into these questions that less abortions means more children in foster care. This is obviously a false claim if you understand how adoption and foster care work.

Most women who were contemplating abortion but ultimately chose life end up raising their own children. When given proper support, most women would prefer to keep their child. In the less common cases where women do choose adoption, arrangements are made during pregnancy so the child goes directly to an adoptive family. The child does not go through foster care.

Foster care is an entirely separate system that is specifically used in situations where children are removed from their home due to safety concerns (such as possible abuse/neglect or the death/hospitalization/incarceration of the parents). Foster care is intended to be temporary and the goal is reunification. These are not children waiting to be adopted - these are children waiting out a lengthy legal process that will determine whether they go home or become eligible for adoption.

Children that become eligible for adoption later in childhood (closer to age 18) are less likely to be adopted before they turn 18. This is tragic, but keeping abortion legal does nothing to alleviate this issue. It’s a separate issue that needs separate solutions.

For babies and young children, they are often adopted quickly after becoming eligible for adoption. There are many couples waiting to adopt, especially those who have been unable to have children of their own (hence the preference toward adopting young children).

Ultimately, the common ground we should be able to find is in promoting policies and nonprofit programs that make it easier for moms to keep their children and care for them - both so they don’t feel pressured into abortion and so they are less likely to have an issue later that brings foster care into the picture.

We should also be encouraging people to wait until marriage to have sex and encouraging fathers to stay in the picture as much as possible, so that more children can be born and raised by both a mother and a father, which is better for them in the long run.

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Thor: I’m gonna need a human skull and I can't have you ask any questions why.

Loki: Only if you also don't ask why.

Loki: *Pulls out 7 pristine human skulls* Take your pick.

Thor:

Loki:

Thor: This one is fine.

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Can I just say that I greatly appreciate how all the Christians of Tumblr have coagulated into one big group (despite being vastly outnumbered on the site) and at this point even have enough cohesion to achieve relative notoriety and nobody else on the site knows what to do with us

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(And then I started taking notes elsewhere, because - without giving spoilers - if I don’t, I’m going to screw it up.)

fic writers raise your hands if you like…forget what happens in your own fics

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some fandom disagreements are like "I see your point but I think this other aspect of the narrative is more significant," and some are like "I don't think you can read."

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As a teacher I take delight in the small ways I can share the things I love with my students.

Like making my one student in advanced French play a Nancy Drew game in French so I don't have to teach him. (Ultra unique situation makes this appropriate.)

I'm reading his reflections (he has to submit something for a grade) and he described CRY as a really old video game. And I was like, OMG no, it's not super old it's.....

And after some math, I came to the conclusion that CRY is in fact, older than this student.

Which made me sad.

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Privileged. I mean, the final freaking episode ended with, “To be continued” and everything! All this time, and I’m still peeved about it!

Do me a favour and reblog this with a show you like that was cancelled after only one season. I don't mean shows that were always meant to be miniseries or shows that work perfectly well as a standalone story, or shows that might still get renewed. I mean shows that are and will forever remain unfinished. The more obscure the better.

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guys im feeling crazy noticing this for the first time after playing this game for YEARS as a child. i guess i never looked at the PDA enough

i read this and thought huh. why did she say point the dog to the correct living room wall instead of point the dog in the right direction?? isn't part of the puzzle determining which direction equals which symbol by going back and forth between the clock and the dogs? .....then i looked at the walls....

each wall has one of the symbols standing out more than the others in the wallpaper....ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????

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🙋 did someone say Nancy Drew? 👀 #mememonday

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I rebuke every negative word spoken over my life, even if it was a joke.

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Steve Rogers: You’re that smart?

Tony Stark: Let’s put it this way. Have you heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates?

Steve Rogers: Yes.

Tony Stark: Morons.

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Some of you guys have never burned a CD and it shows

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Concept: a lawyer who is an alligator, called…the Liti-gator.