Reddit reviews Jephthah's Daughters: Innocent Casualties in the War for Family 'Equality'

>The direct quote from the OP is "Allowing easier access to sterilization" so, no, allowing access to something and forcing it on people are not the same things.

Given that some of the other comments on this post suggest the possibility of giving out 10-year hormonal birth control implants to all the women, this question is worth clarifying on. I've had discussions before where it was suggested that all men be required to have mandatory (hopefully reversible) vasectomies which they would I guess have to get permission to reverse back if they ever wanted to have children.

>Why word that this way? Women are sexual beings, too, and can be attracted to someone and initiate sex without being "seduced". They're free agents.

I think that you're ignoring the huge factor that the male partners have in forcing women to have abortions because they threaten to leave. Do you think that the majority of single mothers are raising their children alone because they or their male partner refused to continue the relationship with the child? I think it's overwhelmingly the latter. That's why I phrased it the way that I did. Do you know where we might get the numbers on what proportion of the time an abortion is being had more so because of the wishes of the male vs. the wishes of the female?

>Are you aware of the laundries, boarding schools, mother and baby homes, and so on that existed around the world as places for unwed mothers to go during pregnancy to hide them away?

Well first of all those institutions were actually pretty rare relatively speaking (only about 10,000 women went through the laundries in Ireland) and were really the exception rather than the rule. They mostly served women at the bottom of the economic spectrum who were in danger of becoming beggars or prostitutes. Women came and went as they pleased, often leaving after a few months when they were able to find better employment elsewhere, were reclaimed by a family member, etc.

>Laundries were notorious for horrifying abuse

Citation please? The academics who have looked into the history of the laundries tell something of a different story.

>People have freedom of choice in countries with the NHS. They can choose to utilize the NHS or they can shell out for a private doctor like we do in the states.

The problem is that in socialized countries the income tax is something like 60 percent to subsidize those sub-par services. You don't have enough disposable income to go and get private treatment and you don't have the freedom to choose how your money is going to be spent.

>they use the NHS instead of dying or going bankrupt like we do in the US.

The average time to get treatment from a specialist in Canada is 19.8 weeks after being referred by your general practitioner. Forgive me for thinking that I would much rather get a private plan myself and be responsible for my own decisions.

>Most people fail to follow through because their child of choice, usually a healthy white baby, isn't available.

You work in the field? This says that white adoptees are under-represented with Asian and mixed-race adoptions being over-represented. Where are you getting your data from?

>Considering the sheer number of children aging out of the foster care system, don't you think they would still be better off with parents of the same sex, or a single parent, than living in a group home and being homeless on their 18th birthday even if your "studies" were factual?

If you want to read a book written by children who were adopted by gay and lesbian couples that argues against gay and lesbian adoption, I'd recommend this one. What a lot of it comes down to is the modeling of behavior. A little girl adopted by two gay men will feel her femininity repressed because she does not have a mother to model her behavior and expectations off of. For a lot of these kids, this results in them having internal conflicts and their own gender confusion. Something like 30 percent of adopted kids come out as LGBT themselves, compared to only something like 2 percent of the general population.