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Your Mother Was Pro-Life
taxable income.
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qualifed expenses are high enough,
taxpayers can use both types of tax break.
FOR OUR ADOPTED CHILD
You are not the child of our bodies...
But you are the child of our hearts...
You are not flesh of our flesh ...
But you are the joy of our life...
You are the fulfillment of our dreams,
The answer to our prayers,
A gift of God
for which we're truly thankful. ..
You are wonderfully our own...
And we love you
As only parents can love their own...
Bob Parkhill, director of social services for Christian
Homes of Abilene, estimates that fewer than half of
current unmarried teenage mothers will select the
option to give birth to the child in their womb. Of that
number, he estimates, only 5 to 10 percent will choose
the adoption option.
Considering the adoption statistics prior to 1973 Roe
v. Wade Supreme Court decision, the answer is clear.
The abortionists seem to be doing a better job in their
recruiting than those of us who are pro-life. Where did
we lose in the battle of words, so that our young
people, in increasing numbers, would think that
adoption is worse than abortion?
Surveys of young people indicate that they are
pushing adoption farther down the list of options. As
Parkhill says, "We have failed to teach the sanctity of
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