Tuggin' at The Gadfly's heartstrings . . .:
Davion is one of 500,000 children waiting for adoption in the United States, many of them for years on end. Many of them are never adopted, particularly once they hit their teens, eventually “aging out” of the foster care system, 20,000 of them every year. About a week ago, this fifteen-year-old young man made international headlines when he stood up in a church in St. Petersburg, Florida, and asked for someone, anyone, to adopt him. “I’ll take anyone, old or young, dad or mom, black, white, purple, I don’t care,” he said. “And I would be really appreciative. The best I could be.”
[h/t] http://crooksandliars.com/nonny-mouse/half-million-american-children-still-w
And this, dear readers, is one of the principal justifications for why The Gadfly does not have an ounce of empathy for the Pro-Lifer people.
The day that The Gadfly sees the Pro-Life, anti-abortion people, en-masse, with unconditional love and acceptance in their hearts, volunteering to adopt some of these half a million abandoned kids -- that will be the day that The Gadfly, possibly, could open a channel of dialog with them. However, until that scenario comes to pass, The Gadfly honestly does not give a flying shit about their views on the matter of abortion.
----TFG
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