It may be painful for a woman to imagine placing her child for adoption, but it may be a source of less pain over the years than the poverty, frustration, and blighted dreams of premature child-rearing or the guilt of abortion. Assure women that adoption delays for older foster children do not extend to babies, and their children will not be rejected. Help build employment plans that allow her to mother her child. Let churches offer more help with child care. The church is charged to care and suffer with the needy, and full-scale welfare interferes with hearing that call.
Abortion is the tail attached to the double-kite of careerism and sexual revolution.
It does not soar on its own, but is lifted by these behaviors. Indeed, they make abortion almost inevitable. A woman who places workplace competition before all other goods will find herself seriously impeded if she has a child. On the other hand, the expectation that she will often have sex with a variety of men means that she is exposed more frequently to conceiving a pregnancy in situations where there is insufficient commitment to raise a child. Simultaneous pursuit of behaviors that cause children and that are hampered by children finds its resolution on the abortion table.