LETTERS: ADOPTION IS ALTERNATIVE

To the editor:

There has been much ado about abortion over the past several years ever since Roe vs. Wade, and now I read Roe changed to pro-life. Let us consider the natural source of the subject:

A man planted a garden, and a few days later he dug into the garden to see if the seeds he had planted were germinating. "Yes," he exclaimed. "Too many." So he uprooted the extra seeds so the others could grow and produce. The seeds were after their own kind. Not one seed produced a pea if the seed planted was a bean. The seeds were alive, else they would not have sprouted.

God made man in his own image and gave him a choice to obey or not to obey. He also gave him commandments among which was "Thou shalt not kill," meaning humans. When Abraham would have sacrificed his son, Issac, God's angel stayed his hand and showed him a sacrifice Good himself had furnished.

God gave man dominion over all animals, birds, fish and vegetation, but he did not give him the right to take a human life. If a seed in a garden is dead, it will not germinate. If the soil is not fertile, it will die or not produce because of lack of nourishment. God made some people to produce after their own kind. Others he must have made to adopt the overflow.

When a parent says, "I do not want this child," and that child is adopted by loving, caring parents, then it should be their child by both the laws of the land and of God. The natural parents should have no right to come back and say they have changed their minds. Or if the parent doesn't know about the adoption, it has already deserted the child before birth and has not right to the child.

We need to relax our laws on adoption in the U.S. I understand over 3,000 Chinese children were adopted by American parents in 1996. Those adoptions could have come from parents in the U.S. The child, not the parents, should be the main consideration.

Liberalism contends that woman has a right to do with her body whatever she chooses, but does she have a right to do away with another body? A child is created by a process advocated by God. A child has a right to a chance to make of itself what it desires.

Many children are kept in homes because the parents do not wish to face their friends and the public after having given the child to someone else. Again, I say the child should be the first consideration. But that parent must know that it is no longer a parent to that child once it has given it up.

People of circumstance: Whether you are pregnant or whether you have other problems, turn them over to a higher power than man. God is not a condemning person, but one who would walk the last mile with anyone who trusts him. He is as close as the breath we breathe. He left his heavenly throne to accept human flesh and be tempted as we are tempted to show us that there is no temptation given to man which cannot be overcome. If we ask him in submission to his will and continue to follow his teachings, he will walk within our concept of life, and later we will look back and understand what his grace has meant in solving our dilemma.

SELMA CRISLER

Cape Girardeau