Fascinating. With about 1 million abortions per year just in the US, one will need a lot of volunteers to make this fly. I’m trust that all pro-life women will be on the volunteer list for this.

I doubt all pro-life women would be on the volunteer list for this.

I am opposed to killing puppies, but I certainly don’t intend to take responsibility for every yutz that is too dumb to spay (or at least restrain) his dog.

I would not hold childbearing-age pro-life women to a higher standard than I am willing to meet myself.

That said, I would not be at all surprised if many women did choose to volunteer their bodies. There are a lot of generous people out there.

No. In my state, certification is involved, but not unbearable.

From the start to the placement, my wife and I waited a bit more than two years. But that included being considered for about thirty other kids in the last year after we were certified.

My mother’s eldest child, I was born after my parents’ 13th wedding anniversary.

Choosing to have a birth child is no guarantee of a nine-month wait.

This is another reason why the adoption process takes so long. The adoption agencies has to screen the 2 million parents to make sure that they will take care and love the child.

Do we just need a new screening process?

I think I may agree with this. The bottom line is there are hundreds of thousands of unwanted children now with people unwilling or unable to adopt. When people promote anti birth control policies that bring unwanted children into the world, they promote human misery, all the while they are well fed.

Birth parents have no guarantee their very own newborn will be healthy.

Sadly, some prospective adoptive parents seem to prefer playing god. You don’t get the perfect kid. But that’s okay, because no kid gets a perfect parent, either.

No. I am saying it seems that many couples wanting to adopt would volunteer.

Okay – sorry for the misreading.

“Are you seriously saying that no surrogates are available?”

No. I am saying it seems that many couples wanting to adopt would volunteer.

Todd wrote:

“There are 130,000 kids waiting to be adopted. What’s the dang holdup?”

I suspect many people are not willing to adopt just any child, but want a healthy newborn.

Jeremy wrote:

“Actually, worldwide there are more like 2,100,000 orphans, but you get the point.”

Adopting a child should be somewhat difficult as it being too easy would lead to abuses, but I think it has now become way too difficult and expensive to adopt. This situation and many couples wanting certain qualities in the child they adopt leaves many children orphans.

Really? There are 130,000 kids waiting to be adopted. What’s the dang holdup?

Actually, worldwide there are more like 2,100,000 orphans, but you get the point.

Well, sure.

A mature person could not kill their own child. They’d be aware that it would bloody their conscience. The only people capable of killing their own children would have to be either sociopathically inhuman or else very, very immature.

No, after we establish that it is possible to transplant children from one womb to another, criminalizing abortion will be much easier.