> Yet the biggest reason that women with healthy but unexpected pregnancies seek
> abortions is economic fears
At the risk of sounding naive (though, I’ve come to realize that I often am), it’s seems unfortunate to me that there isn’t some organized effort to match qualified candidates for adoption with those planning abortion for purely economic reasons.
After all, as it is the adoption process is often itself a fairly expensive proposition (legal and administrative fees, travel – often to foreign countries – for interviews and evaluations, medical expenses, etc.) Were only the money involved more efficiently managed and distributed, the birthing mother could be financially supported, the child provided a caring upbringing and an abortion avoided.
I don’t know whether the number of people seeking to adopt approaches the number of abortions in a given time period, but intuitively it seems like it should have a some constructive effect.
Perhaps the idea is rather barbaric in treating Human life like a commodity, but things as they are could be similarly characterized.