Adoption causes significant mental health issues. Here is just one source:
The psychological effects of being adopted can be far-reaching. Learn the effects of adoption and how to find a therapist who specializes in working with adoptees.
www.verywellmind.com
For those of us suffering mental illness, the idea of creating more suffering with mental illness is abhorrent. A baby is not a doll. Adoption is traumatic.
Personally, I have no memory of being a fetus. I was born because my crazy mum wanted a baby and here I am with chronic depression on a psych ward. If I was never born, what a relief. Just the amount of homelessness and addiction in the USA says it all.
'Adoptees are four times more likely to commit suicide'
Regardless of ethics, it is heartbreaking to see so many children with terrible unloving parents.
I remember meeting a young kid on of my ward stays, they were just barely out of elementary. Their father was non-existant, and mother was in jail for drugs. Now this kid was annoying to so many staff and patients, got on my nerves once and a while. They would cling and obsess over anyone that gave them the slightest bit of attention, hoard food constantly.
But there were times I got to see how much they hurt. After a triggering event, they would breakdown from bubbly to a inconsolable mess, repeating, ''I want my mommy'' over and over again. But everyone just saw it as a whiney kid throwing a fit.
The amount of helplessness to learn that this child wasn't there for mental health issues, but only because no foster family wanted a 'difficult' child. That there was no other place willing to take them.
It's so unfair. They have to hop from place to place with no where to call home, with no one that wants them.
I still think about that child. How they deserved so much better.
Sorry to go off, I still just think about them. And all those other stories that are never told, all the children that are forgotten.
Below is a picture of a fetus at eight weeks- there are clearly many human features:
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(Just being a annoying nerd)
It's actually a 10 week fetus from the souce Flickr page. Not a abortion, but from a hystorectomy from cancer.
The 8th week 'fetus' is actually in it's embryotic stage still.
This fetus is actually in the fetal stage.