yeah I don't really agree with what she's saying... I'm all for teenage girls not being judged if they do want to have a baby, but the fact that she only said it would be okay if the baby then got adopted (or at least that's what I think she was insinuating) is wrong.
kinda OT but I had actually never watched Fox News before yesterday, I saw a clip of this guy who turned the sentence "world power should be equally distributed" into meaning "death to America" ... I'm still confused.
Yeah, I was about to say something about how some kind of ad campaign going "I got pregnant by accident (at [age]), but/and now I'm going to be a competent, loving and awesome mom to my baby," along with links to things like employment assistance, parenting education, support groups, counseling, and all the other stuff that might help a young mother stay in school, go to college, provide for herself and her child, and otherwise attain financial success while being a young and likely single parent, might be a really good way of fighting the extent to which teen motherhood can be a path to poverty (and the stigma attached to it, and young women's feelings of helplessness/shame/hopelessness/etc), but then . . . oh
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I just looked up a statistic that is important here. Only around 1% of all unmarried women give their babies up for adoption - a little higher of whites and almost nonexistent for POCs. So what this person really wants, and I think this is the agenda of a lot of white conservatives, is to increase the number of adoptable healthy white infants, not to reduce teen pregnancy. If anything they want higher teen pregnancy if it leads to more adoptable white babies.
So what this person really wants, and I think this is the agenda of a lot of white conservatives, is to increase the number of adoptable healthy white infants, not to reduce teen pregnancy. If anything they want higher teen pregnancy if it leads to more adoptable white babies.
There is absolutely no evidence of this notion in what this woman said. She simply said that instead of stigmatizing teenage girls for giving up their babies for adoption, celebrate their decision to do so, then maybe teen girls would be less likely to have an abortion. As far as ways to stop the rate of abortions, this is one of the less ridiculous, less hurtful, less disgusting, less horrifying ones the conservatives have come up with.
I'm not saying that their isn't a secondary agenda among white conservatives to increase the number of adoptable white babies, but this woman isn't pushing that agenda here.
My thoughts exactly. I was actually surprised about the fact that she brought up deregulating birth control which is actually a sane way to approach decreasing abortions.
I also think that trying to change how our society views unmarried women (and especially teens) who get pregnant would be a very, very good thing.
I was actually a little surprised at the fact that this wasn't nearly as repugnant as the sort of things that Fox news is usually spouting.
Though the whole adoption is better than abortion thing is just gross. We shouldn't 'celebrate' teen moms who give their kids up for adoption. We should try to remove the stigma and give them CHOICES. And remove the stigma from all of the choices.
I swear that these people think that pregnancy and giving a baby up for adoption is a simple process.
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kinda OT but I had actually never watched Fox News before yesterday, I saw a clip of this guy who turned the sentence "world power should be equally distributed" into meaning "death to America" ... I'm still confused.
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Lol, I'm /so/ glad Fox News doesn't exist in the UK, I can't believe people take them seriously, they're so OTT extreme in everything.
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I think you're absolutely right.
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There is absolutely no evidence of this notion in what this woman said. She simply said that instead of stigmatizing teenage girls for giving up their babies for adoption, celebrate their decision to do so, then maybe teen girls would be less likely to have an abortion. As far as ways to stop the rate of abortions, this is one of the less ridiculous, less hurtful, less disgusting, less horrifying ones the conservatives have come up with.
I'm not saying that their isn't a secondary agenda among white conservatives to increase the number of adoptable white babies, but this woman isn't pushing that agenda here.
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I also think that trying to change how our society views unmarried women (and especially teens) who get pregnant would be a very, very good thing.
I was actually a little surprised at the fact that this wasn't nearly as repugnant as the sort of things that Fox news is usually spouting.
Though the whole adoption is better than abortion thing is just gross. We shouldn't 'celebrate' teen moms who give their kids up for adoption. We should try to remove the stigma and give them CHOICES. And remove the stigma from all of the choices.
I swear that these people think that pregnancy and giving a baby up for adoption is a simple process.
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