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51.
That Wonderful Adoption Option
The facts are troubling.
It
is hardly a very positive
"choice for a new generation" that one out of every
three pregnancies ends by abortion. I don't know
where or how this current generation developed a
notion that it is not socially acceptable to consider the
adoption option.
Apparently, in the minds of many people, the
abortionists have done a pretty thorough job of
destroying the other viable options available to a
pregnant mother. We must do a better job of passing
the word. The adoption option may be the greatest
story never told, even though it is a "win-win" situation
for everyone concerned. We especially need to get
counselors of our young people to do their homework
on this issue.
It
is a far different world today from the early 1970's
when we adopted our children. We had to wait a little
longer for our daughter in 1973 than we did for our
son in 1971. The reason was obvious: the Roe v.
Wade decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme
Court on January 22, 1973. Thereby, abortions on
demand were legalized, especially and liberally in the
first trimester of life and with certain conditions in the
second and third trimester.
I shall never forget January 22, 1993. Our then 20
year-old daughter and I were watching a special on
CNN commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Roe v.
Wade. We watched it in silence broken finally by these
words by my daughter, "Dad, was I in my
birthmother's womb at the time the Roe v. Wade
decision was handed down?" I replied, "Yes indeed;
you were just barely into the second trimester of life."
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