A must read editorial in a most unlikely place

Ross Douthat penned a powerful editorial today that appears, in all places, on the pages of the New York Times. His essay, The Unborn Paradox, looks at the terrible paradox in America of countless infertile couples desperately trying anything to have a baby because adoption is so expensive and takes so long while at the same time millions of children are murdered in the womb. As Douthat points out, being a single mom is terrifying and I believe is the number one indicator of a future life of poverty. For many young women, scared and often alone because the father has bolted the options that they are presented with is an either-or scenario. Either you abort this “embryo/fetus/pregnancy tissue” inside of you for a couple hundred bucks or you keep your child and consign yourself to a life of poverty. There is a third way that used to be vey common. A young woman who got pregnant out of wedlock would give up her child for adoption. That is unfortunately no longer the case. This was a heart wrenching statistic:

In every era, there’s been a tragic contrast between the burden of unwanted pregnancies and the burden of infertility. But this gap used to be bridged by adoption far more frequently than it is today. Prior to 1973, 20 percent of births to white, unmarried women (and 9 percent of unwed births over all) led to an adoption. Today, just 1 percent of babies born to unwed mothers are adopted, and would-be adoptive parents face a waiting list that has lengthened beyond reason.

Infertility is a reality. So is out of wedlock pregnancy. With adoption there was a solution but that solution has been replaced by abortion. In our society we have so many couples who are childless going through extreme and horribly expensive procedures in an effort to get pregnant while at the same time millions of babies are killed by “doctors”. The butcher’s bill of abortion is made even more tragic, if that is even possible, by the reality that there is another choice. Not every unwanted baby would be adopted but a lot of them would be. Why then is abortion so common and adoption so rare? Frankly because the abortion industry has successfully marketed its murderous services as the only viable choice. Adoption? You have to be pregnant for nine months, everyone will know about it and then when the baby is born you have to hand it over? Far better to snuff that child out in the sanitary confines of an abortion clinic.

Douthat ends his editorial with these tragic but accurate words:

This is the paradox of America’s unborn. No life is so desperately sought after, so hungrily desired, so carefully nurtured. And yet no life is so legally unprotected, and so frequently destroyed.

America can never be considered a nation that cares for children while we live in a paradoxical world where politicians speak about how important kids are, how they are our future, how they must be protected from every germ and sniffle and fed properly and ride in car seats and get the most expensive education around even though the end result is mediocre while at the same time enshrining a made up “right” to kill babies before they get a chance to skin their knees or made a bad choice in the lunch line.