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children who USE to be infants who are still waiting to be adopted. As long as they are available to be adopted then every pro-lifer needs to start adoption proceedings before they start preaching to women about putting more children into the system. This is NOT just an infant issue. Every child who wants to be adopted in the U.S.....use to be a baby. THEN, you have the possibility of the birth defects. Can pro-lifers predict that now? Do you know which woman is going to have a perfectly normal child? NO...you cannot. THEN what? What happens to THAT child that you insist be born?

>>>>>>>However, generally speaking, if an infants prospects for a happy life with her biological family look to be extremely poor, then the infant generally should be put up for adoption *as an infant.*<<<<

Who are YOU to dictate HOW old a child should be when put up for adoption from a poverty stricken home? My goodness. Now we're moving to dictating "when" a child who wasn't wanted anyway, should be placed up for adoption? Sheesh. I see this whole thing heading down a very slippery slope.

I happen to be one of those people who waited for 10 years to adopt a baby (but years later, blessed with my own son) and one never came to me. I would NEVER, even then, try to tell another woman that she should not have an abortion because I wanted to adopt a baby. Just because someone wishes to adopt, they don't have a right to tell a woman what she should do with her own body.

If you want a child, adopt a 12 year old who wants to be adopted.