{"id":200174,"date":"2019-05-02T07:25:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T12:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=200174"},"modified":"2019-05-01T22:13:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T03:13:33","slug":"thousands-children-already-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/thousands-children-already-foster-care\/","title":{"rendered":"What about the thousands of children already in foster care?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Can’t Say You Didn’t Know<\/a>) \u00a0\u201cBut what about all the children already in foster care?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re so pro-life, how many kids have you adopted?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf abortion is outlawed what are you going to do about the thousands more children who go into foster care?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

All of these are common Pro-Choice rebuttals to Pro-Lifers. They claim that Pro-Lifers don\u2019t really <\/em>care about children because they aren\u2019t concerned with those that are poor and\/or come from broken families and are in foster care. They claim that Pro-Lifers are merely \u201cPro-Birth\u201d, not truly Pro-Life. However, is this a fair claim? Let\u2019s break down this argument. However, before we start I want to open with a preface. As of September 30, 2017 there were 442,995 children in the foster care system in the United States. This staggering number is not just a statistic, it represents over 400,000 broken homes and hurting children. In this discussion we cannot forget that, just as one abortion is one too many, one hurting child or one broken family is one too many. With that preface in mind, let\u2019s begin.<\/p>\n

I want to start by refuting the false dichotomy that Pro-Choicers often make when it comes to this argument.<\/strong> To say, \u201cYou can\u2019t be pro-life unless you\u2019re willing to go out and adopt all the unwanted babies that will be born,\u201d<\/em> is absolutely ridiculous. We do not apply this standard to anything else. It would be like saying, \u201cYou can\u2019t be against animal cruelty unless you go out and adopt all the puppies,\u201d <\/em>or \u201cYou cant say you\u2019re an<\/em>environmentalist unless you sell your car, use only solar and wind power, and live 100% waste free.\u201d <\/em>We don\u2019t use this standard on anything else. You do not have to single-handedly save the world to be able to make a moral judgement about something. My inability to adopt all the puppies at my local shelter does not mean it is acceptable to abuse them. Even more so my inability to adopt every unwanted child does not make it acceptable to murder them.<\/p>\n