How Modern Adoption Saves Lives

Through modern adoption, a mother may choose parents to raise her baby, how involved she'd like to be in her child's life, and how she'd like her birth process to go. She may choose an adoption ceremony or have her infant baptized or dedicated in her faith. She can communicate with her child, attend birthday parties, and watch her child grow up. She can choose the religion, location, and type of parents she wants to raise her child in choosing the specific parents. Often, the adoptive parents become extended family for her. She can also decide to have limited or no communication with her child and the parents, if she prefers.

The process of adoption is free for bio Mom. In fact, she can get financial help through the adoption agency with rent, clothes, and anything related to the pregnancy with no strings attached, even if she changes her mind and decides to parent. Most modern adoption agencies offer professional counseling at no charge to bio Mom. Through Medicaid, the medical costs of pregnancy and childbirth are covered for moms making less than $75,000 annually, with the option of coverage through the first year.

Bio Mom may try to parent, and if it's too difficult, she can choose parents to adopt her baby at any time (as long as social services are not involved). She may choose parents and plan to place her baby for adoption and change her mind before relinquishing rights. She may choose parents from her own extended family and go the less costly route for the adoptive parents by signing papers through an attorney.

Latest statistics show that there is 1 baby adopted for every 36 couples wanting to adopt. Most of those 36 couples would like to adopt several children, if they could. There is a shortage of babies to adopt because we are aborting them.

Through the option of modern adoption, a mother has however many months remaining in her pregnancy (typically 7 or 8 months) to prepare and decide between parenting options. She may choose to single parent, co-parent, parent with help, get temporary help parenting, marry and parent, or give the gift of adoption by choosing to place her child in a loving home with parents who want to raise her child.

No one is "giving up" a baby through adoption. The only time a mother 'gives up' on her child is when she aborts her child. When she chooses adoption, she is making a very loving, selfless choice to provide for her child a life she may not be able to provide and let her child continue to live.

Many adoptive parents are willing to adopt handicapped children or pay for expensive medical care for children with a poor prognosis at birth. It is typically less expensive for a bio Mom to choose life for her child through adoption than to pay for the dismemberment or poisoning of her child through abortion. It is also healthier for her body. There is emotional support through these modern adoption agencies and extended families raising her child. It is a choice both she and her child can live with.

Faye Barnhart is a life-affirming specialist, women's advocate, and Co-Proponent of the Colorado Life Initiative. She raised her children as a single parent and is now married with an adopted special needs son and enjoys each of her grandchildren, including a grandbaby who needed life-saving surgery at birth. She accepted Christ as her personal Savior and Lord as a small child and relies on the Lord for wisdom and guidance as she equips others through the Colorado Life Initiative Coalition.