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...