Adoption is The Better Alternative to Abortion!

     Every year there are about 1.3 million abortions. Only 4% of women with unwanted pregnancies give their children up for adoption. With 1.5 million American families wanting to adopt a child, there is no such thing as an unwanted child. If by some miracle, we were able to increase the number of unwanted pregnancies given up for adoption from 4% to 50% tomorrow, it would still take two to four years to satisfy the waiting list for people waiting to adopt a baby. Some would argue that the foster care system is over crowded already, and that giving a child up for adoption would only increase this problem. This is simply not the case. Many of the children in the foster care system are there due to abuse or neglect on the part of their parent. They are not up for adoption yet. These children are waiting for the foster care system to decide to either terminate the parental rights and allow them to be adopted out, or to allow them to go back to their parent. Every child is wanted, and wanted desperately. If a person is unable to care for a baby, they should not terminate the pregnancy. They should give that child a chance to live a happy life with a family who so desperately wants to love and raise him/her.

     The emotional trauma that a woman goes through during an abortion far outweighs the heart ache of carrying a child to term and allowing that child to be raised by another family. There are various methods of abortions ranging from “Very Early Abortion”; which rips the embryo from the uterine wall, to what is called a “Partial Birth bortion”; which involves half way delivering the baby and having a suction machine suck out the baby’s brain before delivering the head. All the forms of abortion involve invasive procedures. It is also important to point out that a fetus begins to experience physical pain at around seven weeks gestation. Being ripped violently from the body he/she is growing in is not only unfair to that child, but also painful to them. Could anyone imagine how it would feel to have your body ripped apart and sucked out of a tube? Only those unfortunate babies who have been aborted know the true pain of that torture. A woman by the name of Georgette Forney, who is now a pro life activist, gave her account of how she at the age of 16 chose abortion. She chose what she thought was the ‘easy way out’. After 18 years of living in denial of what she had done, she finally faced the reality of what a 16 year old had done. She faced the baby she had aborted, and the full impact of what she did filled her heart with sorrow and regret. All she wanted to do was to hold her child, but all she could do was cry for the life she would never know. The life she chose to take from the world before it had the chance to experience a life with a family who would have raised that baby, and loved him/her so very much.