She called in the afternoon…just a normal call. “Can you help me get an abortion?” was the question. I shared with her the option of adoption. Her response? “I could never give my baby away to someone else…that would be cruel.”

What was I hearing? A loving adoptive family and a permanent home…cruel? Ending a child’s life…caring?

The truth, based on research, is that children raised in two parent adoptive homes have better outcomes than any other group of children, other than those raised by their biological parents in intact two parent homes.

Is adoption a cruel act or a self-less act? Is adoption an act of love and caring? If I could reach the baby of that birthmother who called adoption cruel….I wonder…what would he say?