{"id":2597,"date":"2014-01-23T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:48:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:48:02","slug":"woman-physician-i-was-indifferent-until-i-adopted-a-child-and-now-i-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2597","title":{"rendered":"Woman physician: &#8220;I was indifferent until I adopted a child and now I march.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful op ed in USA Today last week. With a lovely story of adopting a Chinese girl. It&#39;s only eight paragraphs long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2014\/01\/18\/march-life-abortion-roe-wade-column\/4523723\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">I used to be one of those who felt sorry for the idiots who spent their money putting up signs along the Florida Turnpike saying things like: &quot;Abortion stops a beating heart,&quot; accompanied by an unpleasant depiction of an embryo. And then one day I was pushed off my horse and I became one of them. I think it happens like that for many people: years of puzzled distaste and then bingo! You&#39;re out there too with your silly sign on the side of the road, cringing at rude finger gestures. There is a moment when passion becomes ignited, and you find yourself able to withstand indifference, hopelessness and hostility, even welcoming them.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230; There are millions of people here in the U.S. that have empty arms and overflowing hearts who wish to adopt. This may not be a compelling reason for a woman to bring an unwanted child to term. But the fact that one person&#39;s inconvenient, unwanted child could easily become another&#39;s priceless treasure might be a timely reminder of the infinite value of every human. That realization was enough to change me forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful op ed in USA Today last week. With a lovely story of adopting a Chinese girl. It&#39;s only eight paragraphs long. I used to be one of those who felt sorry for the idiots who spent their money putting up signs along the Florida Turnpike saying things like: &quot;Abortion stops a beating heart,&quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8386,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/8386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}