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Jun 26, 2022Liked by Krysta Gibson

Krysta, Great Rant 👏😁

Unfortunately Women Not having Sex is only PART of the solution. U have to think about the Primal Desire of BOTH sexes. It's Not just the Men seeking Women like in the Caveman days to Current times.. Once a Young girl turns N2 Pubic age, she too is Seeking out this same Primal Desire (But they R to young to Understand it's reasoning) which is what guys/men are doing. I'm 🤔 that there is far MORE Males seeking out to Tame their Desires than women by far. But it's still out there for Both Sexes. I 100% Firmly Believe a Woman has the Rights to her OWN Body, NO Man should EVER make that decision. Men have Ruled Women since Caveman days, thru Religion & Politics. WHY did we girls have to Freeze our Assets off walking several miles to school in "Dresses" in the COLD, RAIN & SNOW... All Because We were to Scared of the Men Running this world to speak up against it. Women HAVE come a Long Ways over the years but in some ways NOT Soon Enough. What the women in our families went thru under the 👎 of Men & their Politics Saddens me.

Anyways getting off the subject I went, Thanks for the Insight for this Unsettled Current Politics of Roe 🙄

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Jun 26, 2022Liked by Krysta Gibson

I watched the CSPAN calls yesterday and am finding one part of the issue missing much attention, and it is critical.

I was a volunteer receptionist when the first planned parenthood clinic was established in Seattle. (I think it might have been the first one in the country.)

So, I was doing intake forms with the women who came.

ALWAYS their concerns about having or aborting a baby were focused on what kind of life the baby would have. Would s/he be brought into a family with an abuser? Did the girl/woman fear she’d abuse or not love enough? (Often because the child was a product of a rape.) Was it a situation without adequate money? Was she mentally ill or physically ill in a way that would not give the child a fair life? Was the woman or girl too young…or too old to provide adequate care? Were there other children who would be deprived of their mother’s time or service in a way that could make the child unwelcome by its siblings? What if the child needed special care or medical treatments? Would a child, or yet another child, push the woman to the edge of her ability to cope as a mother or money earner? Was the child the product of a mixed coupling that could bring painful results to the child from the family or extended family?

Some of those questions could be put into perspective and some were solved by the option of adoption.

Even women who needed an abortion for their own physical health weighed the question in terms of the best thing for the baby. Many women do choose to endanger their lives in order to give the baby life.

Many girls and women ended up feeling wonderfully able to have the baby and give it a good life.

The ones who chose abortion often said afterwards they felt they’d saved the baby from a fate worse than death.

Certainly, women feel the baby inside them whether they want to or not. Certainly, the examples I saw all represented some level or kind of maternal concern.

This is the perspective I’ve heard very little of, yet it was what I saw as a consistent aspect in the decisions.

Ariele

PS Yes, the whole direction of things is even more clearly the American Taliban firmly establishing possession of everything.

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Jun 25, 2022Liked by Krysta Gibson

I'm sharing too! Thanks for helping me express.

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Jun 25, 2022Liked by Krysta Gibson

Thank you. I am sharing!

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Yes, being Foster Parents we were able to adopted the 1st infant (of many) we received. Coming at 9 mos & adopted at 2.5 yrs. She became a challenge starting@ 3 yrs, not bad just had Grandma & Grandpa wrapped around her finger & was quite spoiled by them. Our older boys just delt with it but her Attitude was "U Owe Me" most of the time, puberty was a bear. She finally ran at 15 but came bk at 18 to finish high school then was booted 8 mos later for being mouthy to me after dad Warned her on her Behavior. She's been gone ever since being now 42 years old. She deals with mental illness to a point but as long as she stays on medication she's okay & she's a hard worker & pleasant to be around, But NEVER takes Blame fore Anything that Happens to her/she causes. She's been married twice has 2 children who live with their dad in Germany she hasn't seen them only a handful of times since they were tiny. We hear from her off n on, actually she just called yesterday leaving a Mssg chking up on us, she lost her Cell yet AGAIN 🤨. Haven't heard from her since about March 15th, she was using someone else's phone to call.. we told her she could write a book on all her experiences she's had since she left here. Many police situations & more stories than time..

It's interesting that everyone we personally know who have adopted children have all ran the same gamut as we have. It's interesting and good to hear a positive outcome to an adoption, however it probably wasn't a joyous home for you and your brother. 💕

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