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53.
Live
and Let
Live
I am grateful that our children's birthmothers
developed adoption plans, thereby concluding that
chapter of life with compassion and love. Their babies
were given life twice, first by being ushered into this
world safely at full term and secondly by being placed
with our adoptive family. .
In the process, the birthmothers preserved their
own health and self-worth. As former President
George Bush put it (some of his own grown children
are also adoptive parents), "Adoption works -- for
children who need homes, for people hoping to
become parents, and for women facing a crisis
pregnancy."
According to the National Council for Adoption there
are, at any one time, between one and two million
childless couples hoping to adopt in the near future.
An average of 1.4 million babies have been aborted
each year for over two and a half decades. This isn't
rocket scientist stuff here. Why can't we get these
folks together?
Consider this "adoption option" correspondence we
received years later from Christian Homes President,
Nancy Miller:
When you adopted your child from Christian
Homes you probably heard us say something like
" ... the birthmother wanted to provide for her
baby through adoption what she could not
provide herself." We're still making that same
comment. But I want you to hear it straight
fro'm a letter we received from a birthmother
who recently placed her baby through Christian
Homes:
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