I was reading Dr. Mohler's Blog this afternoon and was really struck by a couple of the posts he had made about the fact that 90% of unborn babies diagnosed with Downs Syndrome are aborted. The main point of both posts he wrote was that where do we draw the line regarding the reasons for aborting a child? He said that many pro-abortionists agree that a the life of a child can be terminated because the mother simply does not want a baby, but they are in a quandry as to where to draw the ethical line for aborting certain babies. It seems to be starting at birth defects and/or other problems, but where will it end? Hair color? Eye color?
For the record, I am completely and utterly pro-life but actually, this post is not about my stance on abortion. This post is not about a woman's "choice" to kill her unborn child, but rather about our choice in adoption. When a woman gets pregnant, she gets what she gets. She doesn't choose the gender, hair color, intelligence, abilities or disabilities. But, as adoptive parents we get that choice. When we signed up for our daughter, we said we wanted a girl, ethnicity wasn't an issue, but we wanted one who was relatively healthy with no significant problems. This all seems pretty logical, but sometimes I get a little pin-prick in my conscience. Since we can "place the order" for our child, is it right that we pass over the "undesirables"? Or should we just say, "We want a child..." and if we get a healthy one or one with Downs, FAS, blind or deaf or LD then we will still praise God and raise this child the best way we know how? I haven't yet answered this question in my mind. We have a couple months yet, before we will be renewing our application and going for our fourth (and last) child. I think I may have to pray about this one!
