This Jessie Davis case brings out all kinds of interesting angles.

Leave it to Michael Medved to illustrate why single motherhood is such a horrible thing that Jessie’s son, Blake Davis, should have been placed for adoption:

For two-year-old Blake, it didn’t represent kindness or generosity for Ms. Davis to keep the child and to attempt to raise him in her painful position. The more tender, loving, unselfish and, ultimately, more motherly decision would have been to place the child in a two parent home with vastly better odds of achieving happiness and success.

And this:

Rather than removing the stigma against unwed motherhood, and encouraging single moms to keep and raise their babies, society should do everything possible to urge single, pregnant girls to give their babies the ultimate gift of love by arranging their adoption into loving, functional, two parent homes.
[emphasis mine]

OK, you just have to read the whole article to understand how he ultimately comes to this conclusion.

The Jessie Davis Case and Dangers Of Out-Of-Wedlock Parenthood

I am — quite uncharacteristically, I know — at a loss for words. At a time when a young woman has lost her life and others are already impugning her character, I find it incomprehensible why someone needs to use Jessie’s life as a single mother as a reason for why unmarried expectant woman need to consider adoption for their babies.

I’m fairly speechless. I’m sure words will come back to me, but they’re gone right now. I’m honestly flabbergasted.

Someone? Anyone? Ferris?

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