Did you know that there are 6 Million pregnancies in the United States EVERY YEAR?
Did you know that HALF of those or 3 MILLION pregnancies are UNPLANNED?
Did you know that almost HALF of those unplanned pregnancies or 1.3 MILLION BABIES are terminated through abortion?
I don’t know about you, but these numbers astound me. They trouble me. They anguish me.
I don’t mind if I sound a bit dramatic. I think we should all be traumatized by these facts and do something to change them. We are talking about lives. We are talking about saving a child, while at the same time preserving the mental, physical and emotional and spiritual state of the expectant mom. We are talking about offering viable options.
This month, November, is National Adoption Awareness Month. This month IS THE MONTH where we have the opportunity to share the answer. ADOPTION is the answer – at least it could be, if it were made an option.
In October and November, we gladly attend and support the banquets and galas of our much loved Pregnancy Resource Centers. It is their fundraising time and we are hopeful that they will be blessed richly as they do so much to stand up for life. They are on the front lines showing love for the expectant mom and offering life options and emotional support.
Far too long has there been a great disconnect between a “Crisis Pregnancy Center” and the logical next step of sharing adoption. How good it is to partner with these Pregnancy RESOURCE Centers to educate their volunteers and counselors about the how to’s on introducing adoption to their clients. It is so rewarding to come alongside and help them to help a woman, who believed abortion to be her only alternative, to now choose life and a family for her child. Many of these young women share that they believe that their adoption decision not only saved their child’s life, but saved them as well.
Adoption will not be the comfortable choice for everybody, but unless it is explained and shared adequately as an option, a true choice cannot be made. Telling a young woman who feels her world crashing down around her that abortion is wrong, and then offering her only the one choice of parenting is very unfair to her. Parenting is a lifetime commitment, which many of these women in unplanned pregnancies are completely unprepared for. The pressure they feel at parenting is what pushes them towards abortion. They just want their life to go back to being normal, not realizing that abortion leaves an incredible amount of scars and guilt. We have heard way too many say – “I wish someone had shared about adoption with me…” Having dealt with hundreds and hundreds of young women who have made an adoption plan – I have not once had one call years later and share their regret of placing. However, I am always so heartbroken for the many that sob their regret of abortion.
All these young women need are ALL of the options to be given to them. The choice is then theirs to make. Let’s learn how to share properly about adoption so that they have a chance to make a decision that they won’t regret.
Adoption Answer is the answer to adoption education. We welcome the opportunity to share and educate about adoption. We are here to work with any center that desires to be educated further on adoption. Our education workshops are free, as are all of our services to any woman in an unplanned pregnancy. Please feel free to contact our office at any time – 1-877-357-1177