hers had put them up for adoption.Why cant a mother, as opposed to abortion, put her child up for adoption? I can understand abortions taking place in cases of rape, endangerment of a mothers life, or incest, but I still think that I would have a problem with having to abort my own baby - even if I was raped. Rather than aborting their child, mothers have the alternative to go through with the pregnancy and then give the child up for adoption.In 1992, the National Council for adoption stated that two million families in the United States spent an average of 2.5 years looking for a baby to adopt (Jones 141). About 10,000 American infants are available for adoption each year (141). There is mental stress that is cause Baumann 10by giving a child up for abortion. After abandonment of a child the mother can face four years or more in psychiatric care (Callahan 81). Children are saved by the thousands when they are given up for adoption. There is about the same number, 1.5 million, of abortions each year as there are families waiting to adopt in the U.S. (Bender & Leone 61). The number of babies actually released for adoption in 1992 was only 5,000 (112). Adoption is not the same as abandoning your child. Many women feel they are synonymous, but that is a complete lie. Abandonment is when your child is left completely with no care - and abandonment is killing your child before he or she has a chance to live. Adoption agencies try to find suitable parents for the child and the parents who are giving the child up for adoption can also go through an open adoption agency.There is the argument that many mothers abort their unborn children due to the fact that their child would be born with some sort of a defect or disorder. I think this case is one of the more disgusting and selfish arguments. Mothers say they would not want a child to live like that, when in reality they just would not want to take care of a child who was living that. The mother...
