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Adoption Should Be Encouraged as an Alternative to Abortion and Single Parenthood

by Jean Garton

About the author: Jean Garton is cofounder and past president of Lutherans for Life and author of Who Broke the Baby"

In a classroom of six-year olds, the teacher was discussing a picture of a family. One of the children featured had a different hair color than did the other family members. A little girl in the class said maybe that was because the boy had been adopted. “I know all about adoptions,” she said, “because I was adopted.” ‘What does that mean if you’re adopted"” asked a classmate. “It means,” said the little girl, “that you grew in your mommy’s heart instead of her tummy.”

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.

When the founder of an anti-adoption group was asked.....

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