Thursday, July 20, 2006

Embryo adoption disgusts me

People should not be allowed to adopt embryos until there are no children waiting to be adopted. Why? Because embryos can wait. They're frozen. They can't feel pain or emotional distress. They don't know that they're just sitting there, parentless.

However, real-life children who have already been born and have not been adopted know that their birth parents didn't want them or couldn't take care of them, know that they don't have a forever home. Every day that they're not adopted is another day when they know that no one "really" wants them.

How on earth can a person, knowing that there are all these kids waiting for adoption out there, all of whom (except perhaps the very youngest) know that they're waiting for adoption, instead choose to adopt an embryo, which doesn't care whether it's adopted now or later and, even if it is never adopted and has to be destroyed, won't be able to feel any pain? Sickening.

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