• Almost 3,000 service providers operate nationwide to help women seeking alternatives to abortion.  Together, they provide a variety of services, including prenatal care, medical assistance for both the mother and newborn, referral services, professional counseling, and adoption placement. ¹
• More than 400 of these centers now provide professional counseling to help women suffering from post-abortion trauma. ²
• Demand for adoption is high.  At least four families, and by some estimates as many as 20, are waiting to adopt each available child. ³
• Each year, only 50,000 children become available for adoption though hundreds of thousands of Americans are seeking to adopt. ⁴
• Adoptions of foreign children by United States citizens have risen steadily to more than 10,000 in 1987 (latest figures available) ⁵
• The rate of abortions per 1000 live births is more than 50 times greater than the rate of adoptions.  The annual U.S. rate of 1,600,000 aborted children has reduced the potential number of adopted children. ⁶

FOOTNOTES
1.  International Life Services, Inc., Pro-Life Resource Directory, 1991-1992 (Los Angeles, California), and personal communiction with the editor, December 12, 1990.
2.  Ibid.
3.  National Committee for Adoption, Adoption Factbook: United States Data: Issues, regulations and Resources (Washington, D.C.) p.6; The New York Times, Dec. 11, 1990, p. B10.
4.  Ibid., pp. 6, 159.
5.  Ibid., p.  5
6.  Ibid., pp. 4, 12

This article was printed and distributed by the Knights of Columbus and was posted on this web site March 1999.
 

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It is noteworthy and honorable that some folks are willing to stand up for a ban on Partial-Birth Abortion.  Let us not forget that ordinary everyday run of the mill abortion is also murder.  We must understand that murder is murder no matter the method.  Because one method of abortion seems to be horrible does not make the other methods less so.  We should be horrified and sickened by any abortion regardless of the method.  The Fifth Commandment spells it out clearly:

"Thou shalt not kill."

A fetus is a person, a human being with a God given soul.  Imagine the pain the Lord must feel when any abortion occurs.  Please contact both of your Senators and Representative, via letter or phone,  to let them know how horrified you are that abortions are legal and to stop Partial-Birth abortions and all other abortions as soon as possible.

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