I liked what you had to say about abortion. I am pro-choice, but prefer adoption.. There are people out there who can't have their own children & who want them desperately. No one should be forced to have a baby, but there are alternatives. Imagine finding a couple who want the baby & can afford the medical bills. I wouldn't say having a child is irresponsible. Choosing to keep or find a family for a baby is a great alternative to abortion. People wait years for babies! Give them an opportunity.
This may be true in some cases, but not all. People don't want to adopt children of "troubled" people. They want babies of perfect little middle-class white young people who can't take care of them yet. I don't know the figures right now and it's 2 in the morning, but the percentage of POC children who get adopted is very low. So they go into foster care or stay in orphanages until they're 16. Then they get thrown out into the real world, and they end up much worse than those children I spoke of previously. And the cycle continues.
And many women lose their jobs for being pregnant. How will they feed themselves, let alone eat enough for two if they have no job? Many people do not have family to help them, either. They may just be estranged from an abusive family, or their family may be struggling to get by like they are. Where will she go then? And after all of it is over, what does she have to show for it?
So sure, for middle-class white people who have a family to support them through their hard time, adoption may be a good choice for them. But again it is a CHOICE. And even if they do adopt out, there are so many side effects to giving birth. There is postpartum depression, for one thing. Some people never recover from it. I have read horror stories of mothers who have been treated like shit by doctors and told that they deserve the pain they're going through while giving birth (even married people have been told this, not just single mothers or "sluts"), of women who have been badly injured while pregnant or while giving birth who have never recovered. It's not just about gaining a few pounds, there are changes that you may never recover from.
All I'm saying is that that is precisely why it is a decision that should be taken seriously. All the facts should be taken into consideration, not just the nice parts of babies. And that is why it should be every uterus-owner's choice whether to have an adoption or not to.