John, um, no. By existential I only mean whether something exists in simply the usual sense, so that it can be sensibly described in some meaningful way, like "innocent" in regard to an unborn "child", or "hellacious" in regard to an unborn "guitar player". So one might decry the "murder" of all those utterly hellacious "guitar players." Just something I heard in a logic class, Existentialism gives me the heebie jeebies. And I don't quite mean to be reasoning something, just pointing to reasonable doubts about other reasons. So I would doubt the assertion that an unborn child is clearly a better guitar player than Rick Fielding just because it has never made a mistake, broke a string or a nail, missed a lick, dropped a pick in the soundhole, or played a 2-hour set out of tune. It seems a bottomless argument soley designed to demonise people dealing as best they know how in difficult and uncertain circumstances. Or they seem uncertain to me.

   Other reasons it's so hard to adopt, apart from any shortage of born babies, are a strong preference to get them young, and very conservative notions of who qualifies to be a good parent. I know when my kids were born I felt somebody was crazy to let me take them home, I doubt I could have passed an audition for them.