Of all the anger in Social Media, and as much as Trump hatred roils folks....I'm not sure anything approaches the sheer blinded hatred generated in the abortion (or often, just "womens choice" topic").PackFansXL said:Quote:
Most pro-lifers have heard the argument from abortion supporters that goes something along the lines of: "If you want to ban abortion, are you willing to adopt the kids that will result?" On its face, this argument is disingenuous. One does [not] need to be willing to personally care for another to believe he has a right to life. I do not presently have the resources to take in any homeless people, but I can still justly oppose murdering them.
Even so, many pro-life couples actually will adopt children for the specific purpose of saving them from abortion. Some of these couples appeared at demonstrations over the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health to advertise their willingness. Did progressives on social media admire the couples' taking up their challenge? Of course not! Instead, these couples faced mockery and derision online.
On the most basic level, these couples are doing a loving act of service to give a child a home, and they do not deserve to be made into an object of scorn on Twitter. Would any of the people mocking them be willing to adopt a baby who otherwise would have been aborted? Some would, surely, but the answer would be "no" for most of them.
Among the ridicule, there were a few thoughtful arguments. They all took different forms, but they mostly boiled down to: "Would these couples really adopt a baby? If they would, why haven't they adopted one of the hundreds of thousands of children in foster care?"
The children who are already in foster care are not in the system for lack of interest. There are between 1 and 2 million couples in America who are waiting to adopt, enough to empty the entire system between two and five times over. If they were to attempt to adopt one of the children, it is likely they would be held up by well-intentioned yet counterproductive bureaucratic red tape.
It is difficult, especially right now, to find any reasonable discourse --- its all just hate. I mean...like at an unhealthy level of meanness that comes out. And I'm guessing many of the people who say such vitriolic things are ones who lamented Trump for the same types of posts.
**And I still think we see it that way because many folks, like myself, started out following reporters on SM, and those folks are much more liberal, and have followers who are. I see all these posters pop up with horrible things to say, and wonder, how did i see that....and it turns out they are followed by a Pat Forde or a Stu Mandel, or a local reporter whom I happen to follow. And so I see their crap too. Its enough to make me just drop the platform....