Yet there are whole organizations that exist for the sole purpose of aborting the adoption option. They believe that babies are better dead than with parents who are not theirs by birth. In order for abortion to be legal and accepted, the unborn child has to be seen as the woman's property. For female autonomy to be affirmed, it must not be acknowledged that it is better for a child to live in a two- parent family than with a single parent. Every happy adoptee is a reminder to aborting mothers of the road not taken.
Adoption is a tried and true family-building option.
Adoption, all in all, has served women, children, and society very well. 1 In the United States today there are two million couples seeking to adopt. Unfortunately, there are only 30,000 children available for placement each year. Such numbers result from two factors. First, the number of infertile couples in the U.S. exceeds one million, and even recent advances in reproductive technology can only help one in five.