It may be painful for a woman to imagineplacing her child for adoption, but it may be a source of less pain over the years than thepoverty, 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 theirchildren 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 withthe needy, and full-scale welfare interferes with hearing that call.
Abortion is the tail attached to the double-kite of careerism and sexualrevolution.
It does not soar on its own, but is lifted by these behaviors. Indeed, they makeabortion almost inevitable. A woman who places workplace competition before all othergoods will find herself seriously impeded if she has a child. On the other hand, the expectationthat she will often have sex with a variety of men means that she is exposed more frequently toconceiving 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 findsits resolution on the abortion table.