Are you Pro-Choice or Pro-Life and why?

Then they should adopt one of the hundreds of thousands of children already in the system.

My Sister In Law cannot have children, so this has resulted in their seeking out a person to have a child for them. I was full of mixed emotions when I heard this, because as the last two posters wrote- there are TONS of kids who are waiting to have homes, and it is truly very sad that there are people who feel it is their absolute right to raise a baby rather than a child. It is sickening to me the way that there are too many children already, and because they are "too old" (how the f**k is a 5 year old "too old"?) they are harder to place? These are children, not puppies. This is a big fat problem with people these days, that even what they have available to them is not good enough. They want something new. "Something"? This is what I was told, and it really breaks my heart. If I could afford to I would adopt...I'd adopt a few kids in need of a good and loving home. Though I would not choose to end a child's life, if I had to make that choice and could not afford the child myself, I would place the child with adoptive parents, never looking back. This is the point of this post- to ensure that people realize that reproductive organs are optional to use. There is no law that says we must procreate and again, though I could never terminate a pregnancy just because I could, I would never tell another woman that she is bad and horrible because this is the route she chose. People who cannot have babies have other options. It is their choice whether or not they want to procreate or they want to raise a child. THIS should be the thing that they think about. TOO MANY WOMEN cop to the idea that they want to go through the childbirthing experience because they have watched too damned much Discovery Health Channel. Trust me when I say that it is not as great as those TV cameras make it. If women's maternal instincts are kicking in and you want to have the experience of having a kid, I urge you to take on the responsibility of watching someone else's kid for a month, without financial aid from their parents, no medical, dental, no clothes which you did not buy yourself, and then remind yourself that this is the part that goes on for years and years and years. It is to those women who feel like the baby will stay little forever that I say if you are so wanting to have a child and be a mom, take a child already here into your heart and life. Like the last two posters said- there are a ton of kids who already need a loving home, and the birth experience? Well, it straight SUCKS!!! I've done it three times.

I agree with GloomCookieLex, there are already too many children waiting to be adopted.

P.S. - I am pro-Life.. Even tho it is God Himself who endowed the ability to make choices (an offshoot of thinking ability) - I don't believe the life of another should be someone else's choice, unless the mother to be's life is in danger because of the pregnancy.. There is always adoption. And pregnancy doesn't last a lifetime. Then someone will say how you shouldn't bring a child into the world if you don't have enough money, but I still think the kid would rather live if they had the "choice".