Carrying, birthing, and surrendering a baby is infinitely more emotionally and physically devastating than having an abortion at 5-6 weeks' gestation, before anyone even knows you're pregnant. No amount of Facebooking is going to change this arithmetic. Your best bet is to target women in communities where abortion isn't an option for either access or social reasons (e.g. religion). I guess Christianity Today is that audience.

Thanks for your comment. Your response illustrates the very push back within some pro-life arenas that hold adoption in contempt and leaves this option out of the conversation. My argument is that this attitude contributes to the high # of daily abortions. It's naive to think that a lack of money/financial support is the only reason a woman makes an adoption plan. If a woman makes the painful decision of placing her child for adoption, you can rest assured she has a real reason she is making this choice. Adoption is not the solution for every woman but as someone who values life from conception, I believe it is a far better alternative to abortion. To user your faith to equate both abortion and adoption as being abominable is sad. I pray you will reconsider your position, find grace in your heart, and show mercy to those who may make decisions you can't imagine nor pretend to understand. Consider God's plan to redeem the world involved Jesus being placed in an earthly family.

Abortion and infant adoption are both abominations. The flaw in your case is that these are unwanted pregancies, infact they are unsupported pregancies. If only your efforts were truly Christ centered. You are decieved! Their is no scriptural support for infant adoption except in the case of true orphans. An unwed mother needs the loving example of the redeeming work of the cross. Jesus paid the price for her sins and has redeemed her. The churches job is to support and love her and her child. Not condeming her to a lifetime of shame and separation from her child. Woe to the hypocrites. The practice of abortion and infant adoption have already brought the judgement of a HOLY God to the nations. My God shall supply all my (single mom and baby) needs according to His riches and grace in Christ Jesus. Do you council young mothers with this truth? Or does the word of God not apply to unwed mothers when so many "deserving" childless couples are so obviously so superior. Again, woe to the hypocrites. Logic and reason are the enemy of the Spirit of God and His love. Your bright idea for solving abortion may not sound so good if you are the mother and your child is on the auction block. But for the Grace of God there goes YOU. The church is the answer to stopping abortion. Give up the $$ and show genuine loving support to vulnerable girls and women. Stop stoning them and they will want to give birth and keep their babies. Infant adoption looming over a pregnant womans head will only strengthen her temptation and feelings of desperation. Demonstrate the love of God for Christ's sake.

Thank you for your comments! Please see my response to some of the comments here by going to this link (page 3) http://issuu.com/adoption-share/docs/december_2012

Please encourage more adoptions by lobbying Congress to renew the tax credits for adoption expenses, which are expiring at the end of the year.

People who want to adopt should actually adopt orphans.. the bible talks about taking care of orphans, which is a lot different from "unwanted pregnancy." I don't think anywhere does the bible talk about taking a child from an "undeserving" woman to a more "deserving" woman.. and I think that's the general undertone I hear from many of these Pro-Adoption people and its general approach towards stopping abortions. And there are a lot of orphans out there, but people think of them being "un-adoptable" because they are older kids who have been dropped into the foster care system because there parents and extended family doesn't want them or take them. These kids are literally Orphaned. Yet, a lot of pro-adopted couples try to stay away from older kids who have been emotionally/physically abused but seek out the perfect infant child . Even when it comes to international adoption, parents don't want the HIV infected, mentally handicapped, etc kids. And that's what I feel like is missing from the conversation. I believe mothers who with "unexpected pregnancy" don't want to orphan their babie.. but in many ways, are being made that they should orphan their kids because they are "undeserving" cause of their education, income, situation etc. And i don't believe God would want any child to be orphaned.

Well, Anon, maybe we can just start selling them at WalMart. Would that make you happy? Or, you can do what others do -- go down to a border town and pick one up, cut-rate, in a motel, no questions asked, cash only. Who cares if the baby was kidnapped, right, as long as it's affordable for you? Babies are not commodities, unless you're in the adoption industry. No one owes you a "cheap" baby. Also, nine months of pregnancy and childbirth cost thousands and thousands in medical expenses, and that's when everything goes right. Should complications arise, then things get even more expensive, especially if the baby requires neo-natal care. This coveting of the fruit of other women's wombs is pure evil, as evidenced by the majority of the self-righteous, self-entitled attitudes of those who think adoption is something natural and something they have a right to. Good thing Mary wasn't living today. The oh-so-Christian adoption crowd would have ripped her to shreds to get to her baby, and then given Christ to a fine family of Pharisees. I think this "Adoption-Share" organization should be investigated, and sooner rather than later. I shudder to think what kind of coercion and lies any poor girl who runs into them will encounter.

Abortion = 100 bucks and a half an hour, totally confidential Adoption = tens of thousands of dollars, years and years of work, lawyers, agencies, reams of paperwork, public and often heartbreaking If Christians want to reduce abortions through adoption, there's LOTS of work to do. And I for one, would appreciate it. I'm adopted and have wanted to adopt but am prevented because of the cost. Make it as cheap to adopt a baby as it is to MAKE a baby, and I'm in.

Fletcher, you're missing the point. It is not "normal" to covet the fruit of other women's wombs. It is not "normal" for a married couple to dole out their babies for adoption should they face a financial crisis (do they get the babies back when that crisis passes?). It is not "normal" to separate what God has joined together -- a mother and child. Studies show that the rate of depression, addiction and suicide for real mothers who've "given" their baby up for adoption are the same as those for women who've miscarried, or for women who've aborted. It is unnatural to sever the mother-child bond. To speak of "normalizing" this terrible, unnatural deed is not that different from those who would "normalize" adult-child sexual relations (which several groups have been trying to do recently). This article is offensive. It proposes "normalizing" the unnatural, and all because one set of women will gain something from another set's pain. It's clear to anyone who hasn't been living under a rock these past several decades that women who seek abortions are not unaware that adoption is a possibility. As Kaitlin points out, of course these women realize this, but it's the pregnancy they wish to avoid as much or perhaps even more than raising a child. To pretend that if we just "normalized" adoption (to the point where married people happily keep some of their kids and just as happily rid themselves of those same children's siblings depending on how things are going at the time), abortions would come to a grinding halt is beyond ignorant. Plus, one really wonders if the person who wrote it ever bore a child of her own. Adoption is not the answer to abortion. To assert such a thing is remarkably stupid and insensitive, IMO. Not to mention quite possibly deeply evil, especially in light of the fact this article was written to promote an adoption service. The adoption industry is as corrupt as the abortion industry. They are flip sides of the same coin -- they both prey on young women in dire circumstances, they both stand to profit by coercing and manipulating these young women into their corner, and they both treat those young women like dirt once they've gotten what they want.

You can't adopt a dead baby.