Friday, September 13, 2013

When “Rights” Are Wrong: In Opposition to Same-Sex Adoption

The cover of Time recently featured the headline “The Childfree Life.” China has for some time enforced the “one child policy.” With this policy, children have no siblings and ancestors only exist in the direct line. Millions of girls are aborted in preference to boys.

European populations are declining and dying for lack of children. Among both married couples and the unmarried, children conceived by in vitro fertilization are common. Few orphanages exist because most “unplanned pregnancies” are aborted. As a result, countless innocent lives are destroyed in the womb before birth. Genetic testing has resulted in children with Down syndrome and other genetic abnormalities being aborted. We hear of children being produced for “spare parts” or for scientific experimentation “so that we can improve mankind.”

In the midst of all this confusion about the gift of life, is the argument for the alleged “right” of a same-sex couple to adopt a child.  (more...)

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