Reply #90: Which is *least* bad? [View All]

Agrred, adoption is not a panacea.

When a woman is faced with a pregnancy without the means to raise a child, there is something wrong with each of the options.

There is something wrong with a woman having to give her baby away to strangers. There is something wrong with having a woman raise her child in poverty. There is something wrong with having a woman raise a child who feels she is not ready to be as good a mother as her children deserve. And there is something wrong with abortion.

The option that is least wrong for each woman varies by situation and the individual and the woman is the best one to know which is least wrong for her. Some women are personally and viscerally opposed to having an abortion. In the same way, some women are personally and viscerally opposed to giving away their babies in adoption. That's one reason why women will risk their lives obtaining illegal abortions.