NYTimes.com: The Unborn Paradox

I have often thought, "What would happen if all the babies aborted each day were placed in a large pile and shown on the nightly news in the city where they were aborted?"

This will never happen because we are not “comfortable” seeing what the result of our “choice” does to unborn children. We want the choice, but we must continue to dehumanize the “object” of that choice in order to legitimize it. We publicize other tragedies that result in loss of life, why keep this one under wraps? We see the results of child abuse and cringe. We cry, "Foul!" when animals are harmed by their owners. Yet we don’t want to look at the “unseen” aborted children who are terminated--not just scarred or emotionally damaged-- but TERMINATED!

Today, women who are older and want to start families struggle with infertility for many reasons. Who knows how many of them aborted pregnancies earlier in their lives thinking that there would always be another chance! Some may have never aborted, but due to the use of chemical birth control or other factors, they are now on a quest for that elusive child.

Sadly, as Ross Douthat, author of the attached NYTimes.com article points out, only 1% of babies are available for adoption and one in five pregnancies ends in abortion. Babies that are a “throw-away” burden for one group are now a hot commodity for another.

I wish that the “self-preserving” act of abortion would be relegated to a cultural taboo and that the “selfless” act of adoption would be elevated to cultural heroism! It will never happen, but one can dream. The law of supply and demand needs to apply here: those who don’t want to be parents need to connect with those who do. Problem solved!