Aside from the scare tactics, lies, deception, and religious corruption of Crisis Pregnancy Centers... I have a problem with them for another reason. Not only do they coerce women with unwanted pregnancies to carry to term, but for some of the more vulnerable & financially unstable - they coerce/force them to give their children up for adoption.
Adoption is not that great. A substantial number of adoption agencies linked with CPCs are "Christian" in the worst possible way. Basically, they want you to produce unwanted offspring, and they want to funnel that offspring into adoption so they can "grow up in a good Christian home." It's all about feeding the "Look, I'm a good person, right?" complex of conservative Christians. Oh, look at this poor unwanted orphan - you just need a good Christian upbringing that your mother obviously didn't get! And it's all about numbers. Christian adoption agencies essentially bring more people into the Christian faith without the hassle of conversion because brainwashing an adopted child from birth is a lot easier than converting a full-grown adult! Welcome to the new recruiting tactic.
So, It's not really about "preserving the life of the unborn." It's not about saving anyone's "life" (unless you mean saving in the sense of one's soul from secularism. ugh). No, actually, it's about bringing more CHRISTIAN children into the world through "proper" upbringing.
Further reading HERE and especially HERE.
Personally, for me, adoption would never be an option. It's last, if it's on the list at all. It's even listed after the option of raising the kid myself (not that I would ever in hell want to do that either, though). Why? Because I would feel ashamed to give up MY biological offspring to some know-nothing family who most likely wouldn't know a damn about raising kids right. Although I never want to have children, I have a lot of opinions on how they ought to be raised. Horribly hypocritical and stupid, I know. But still.
Anyway, I would much rather the embryo not even develop past 6 weeks so I could terminate the unwanted pregnancy and be done with it and never have to deal with the guilt of giving birth, going through ALL of that time & effort, and then... just funneling the kid into the arms of human trafficking - adoption! What a terribly traumatic waste that would be, both for me, and eventually the kid!
Obviously, what being pro-choice means is that you support all of the available options of the woman and believe that it's up to her. So, I'm certainly not anti-adoption for other people if that's what they really want and desire for their kid, but I don't think adoption is always the best or the healthiest option. Here's an interesting article. I sincerely believe that guardianship is a much better idea than adoption. Guardianship (or adoption if circumstances don't allow), parenthood, or abortion - each one is a valid choice if it's YOUR choice.
When I hear anti-choice people rambling on about the "heroic" option of adoption over the "sinful" choice of abortion, all I can think is, If adoption is so great, then where the fuck are all of your adopted children? Seriously, Theo Purington, where the fuck is your legion of adopted kids?
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