Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6905051-20131203105732/@comment-4839682-20140520231549

I never said it was. However, one can get pregnant, generally, a lot easier than adopting a baby.

I could get pregnant within weeks for free, and deliver a baby, with heavy painkillers, just 38 weeks later. I don't even need to know the child's father. Would I be uncomfortable during that time? Yes, of course, especially toward the end. However, if I wanted to adopt a child, it would likely take me years and thousands of dollars. I would need to pass background checks and jump through all kinds of hoops to get there. Likely, the child would one day throw the fact that I'm not his/her "real" mom in my face.

I could get drunk and get pregnant tonight and not even remember it. I could give that baby up for adoption and never see it again. I could abort it and have no repercussions for my actions outside of that. This is why I consider adoption to be a much more serious endeavor, and find it insulting to say or imply that one loves an adopted child "almost" as a biological one. I find the emotional toll of struggling/waiting to adopt, which can take over a decade, to be more serious than a few months of being physically uncomfortable. Especially given the fact that I've had labor described to me (by friends who have utilized epidurals) as just some "slight pressure" after a few "uncomfortable" contractions.

You don't even have to feel the physical pain of labor and birth if you don't want to. You can elect to have a C-section with general anesthesia and never feel a thing, similar to what i did when I had my wisdom teeth removed. XD

Now, of course, what I've said here does not apply to literally everyone, but it's beside my point.