Saving Lives

Adoption and the abortion industry

It's a well-known alternative to abortion, but much less often used. Every year approximately 1.3 million single women become unexpectedly pregnant. Sadly, less than two percent choose the loving option of adoption, while two million couples eagerly wait to adopt children.

In part, that's why November is National Adoption Month. It is our opportunity to spotlight adoption as a positive alternative to abortion. It's a time to stress the many blessings of adoption for both the biological mother and adoptive family.

Why such a huge discrepancy between the number of babies placed for adoption and families hoping to adopt? There are several reasons.

Primarily, it's because the abortion industry makes no money when a woman chooses not to have an abortion. Planned Parenthood's latest annual report shows that they aborted 79 babies for every adoption referral it made to an outside agency. Their adoption referrals have declined by a huge seventy-three percent since 1997. At the same time, the number of abortions they perform has increased over nineteen percent.

For the past three decades, Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry have waged a quiet but successful war against adoption. Polling shows that many women actually feel it is more compassionate to have an abortion than to place their baby for adoption. The bleak statistics on adoption are a tragic testimony to Planned Parenthood's efforts.

The media have also played an active role in the way Americans look at adoption. Beth M. Waggenspack is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She has written extensively on adoption and the media. Her research shows that media representations of adoption are negative by a ratio of five to one. She said they focus on the differences that adoption creates instead of the many positives.

Another reason for adoption's lackluster image is that many in the pro-life movement have been affected by the abortion industry's negative propaganda about adoption. They may not be promoting it as an attractive and viable alternative to single parenting. When counseling women in crisis, many well-intentioned volunteers in women help centers may fail to fully explore adoption or even mention it as an option. Part of the reason is a lack of information and comfort in presenting this option.

Did You Know?

Planned Parenthood was founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, a social radical and proponent of eugenics. Selective breeding, she said, was necessary to control those who were "unfit to breed," and that if minorities had high birth rates, "economic turmoil" would result. Today over two-thirds of all abortion centers are located in minority communities.

– Black Americans for Life, March 1999

Two Supreme Court cases have ruled in favor of Pro-Choice:

The result of the rulings opened the door for women to receive abortions for any reason. Today, the number one reason women get an abortion is due to financial reasons. Abortion should not be used for the sake of convenience, or financial concerns.

Let us side with life. Abortion should be illegal. In the event of an extenuating circumstance, such as victimization or medical emergencies, allow due process to determine if the life of the child was destroyed illegally.

Children in the womb must be protected to the same degree as children out of the womb.

PART I – INTRODUCTION
Chap­ter
1  – The Sit­u­a­tion
2  – The Three Ques­tions
3  – How To Teach The Pro-Life Story.
4  – Dis­crim­i­na­tion
5  – Some­thing Old, Some­thing New

PART II – THE LAW
Chap­ter
6  – Two Infa­mous Days in the U.S.A.
7  – Legal Pre-Roe
8  – Post Roe Vs. Wade
9  – Health

PART III – HUMAN LIFE
Chap­ter
10  – Human Life?
11  – The Human Embryo
12  – Fetal Devel­op­ment
13  – Via­bil­ity
14  – Fetal Pain
15  – In Vitro Fer­til­iza­tion
16  – Embryo/Fetal Exper­i­men­ta­tion

PART IV – ABORTION
Chap­ter
17  – How Many?
18  – What Kind and How?
19  – Very Early Abor­tions
20  – Mater­nal Complications/Immediate.
21  – Mater­nal Deaths & Long-Term Com­pli­ca­tions.
22  – Neona­tal & Child­hood Seque­lae
23  – Breast Can­cer

PART V – INFANTICIDE & EUTHANASIA
Chap­ter
24  – Fetal Hand­i­cap and Infan­ti­cide
25  – Euthana­sia

PART VI – SOCIAL QUESTIONS
Chap­ter
26  – Choice?
27  – Ille­gal Abor­tions
28  – Parental Notification/Becky Bell
29  – Rape
30  – Impose Moral­ity?.
31  – Unwanted
32  – The West Is Dying?

PART VII – ALTERNATIVES
Chap­ter
33  – Women Help­ing Cen­ters
34  – Adop­tion
35  – Con­tra­cep­tion
36  – Vio­lence? Or A Pro­tec­tive Ring

PART VIII – OTHER THOUGHTS
Chap­ter
37  – Doc­tors & Nurses
38  – Words
39  – Polls
40  – The Media
41  – Cap­i­tal Punishment/War
42  – Pro-Abortion Organizations/Planned Par­ent­hood
43  – Tax-Funded Abor­tions

PART IX – WHAT TO DO
Chap­ter
44  – What To Do