Former punk artist: Adoption “crueller than death”
by Carder
Mum suggests adoption, but I think that’s crueller than death. That’s my opinion. To burden a child with abandonment and rejection right from the start. A living death. All or nothing, that’s me. I choose nothing. Nothingness for baby. I think this is a responsible decision.
I will not countenance any other option.
~ The Slits’ Viv Albertine describing her decision to abort as excerpted from her memoir Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir, via Vulture, November 24
Nov.26, 2014 6:00 am |
Adoption |
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Hey Viv, can your mind bend far enough for you to justify killing unwanted newborns and sending them into ‘nothingness’ or only babies that haven’t been born yet?
Viv,
Are you aware that a baby has a heartbeat at 21 days? Are you willing to ‘countenance’ actually making an informed decision or does that destroy the ‘nothingness’ you need to convince yourself of in order to abandon/kill the baby?
http://www.medicinenet.com/stages_of_pregnancy_pictures_slideshow/article.htm
the Culture of Death thinks that killing is a solution to just about any sort of problem.
Is that really how some people view adoption? How heartbreaking; and it explains a lot about why so few birthmothers choose it.
Viv, I wish you could meet some adopted people and their amazing loving families! You could even arrange to be part of your child’s life, to whatever degree you and the family are comfortable with, and when the child is old enough to ask the “why” questions you can work with the family to explain your choice. Abortion is forever, over and done, no chance to redeem or explain.
As a hopeful-someday-adoptive-mother my heart weeps.
As an adoptee, I do not find my fate crueler than death. I resent the fact that you think so little of the adoptees who have contributed so much to this world. Viv, you just contributed to the stigma that used to accompany adoption.
I am extremely grateful my birthparents chose life for me to enjoy with all its usual ups and downs, challenges and achievements. I do not feel abandoned or rejected whatsoever. On the contrary, I am profoundly moved that my adoptive parents went to great lengths to accept me into their home. My mother once said that adopting me and my brother was the best thing they ever did. My birthparents did not reject or abandon me. They unselfishly gave me the gift of a family who was in a better position to raise me at that time.
You keep going on about this “Culture of Death” as though it is some vast structure entrenched across society Del. You also keep stating that this “Culture of Death” thinks that killing is a solution to just about any sort of problem.
It’d be interesting to know why you think this “Culture of Death” thing even exists (although I can understand it being applied to people like Rick Perry, but that doesn’t quite warrant the monster under the bed way you seem to promote it).
And if you think this “Culture of Death” thinks killing is a solution to just about any sort of problem, perhaps you could identify what some of those ‘just about any’ problems might be.
Viv, Did you know that November is National Adoption Awareness Month? One whole month to celebrate adoption is hardly a “living death”.
I have friends and family who are adopted and many who express being glad they weren’t aborted.
Those. dead. eyes.
I think this statement reflects what many think about life in general… that it is to be endured, grasping at as much temporal pleasure as possible, before the relief of death comes or is sought out.
If this isn’t one of the most successful lies from God’s enemy, I don’t know what is.