Article neglects adoption as alternative to abortion
(Last updated: 08/28/09 6:25pm) There are many viewpoints other than pro-life or pro-choice in regard to abortion. The State News fails to realize this and never discusses it, as Tara Thoel's "Students discuss opposing abortion views" (SN 10/19) demonstrates.In her article, Thoel discusses how both pro-life and pro-choice organizations held events during Young Women's Week of Action for U.S. and Global Reproductive Rights. While this was an accurate account, Molly Pappas stated, "Women believe the only way out of their problems is abortion — we need to find a different solution." What Thoel fails to do is to acknowledge that there are solutions to abortion.
The solution is called adoption. It is estimated that there are currently one and a half million children in America living with adoptive parents. Each year on average, there are 120,000 adoptions across the United States. In 2005 alone, Michigan experienced 2,844 adoptions.
These 120,000 adoptions a year are from women who knew and realized there was another option other than abortion. Adoption benefits both the one giving birth and the couple who cannot have children of their own; the one giving birth does not have a burden of having an unwanted child and the couple who cannot have children are able to have what they desire: a family.
The public needs to know that the issue of abortion does not have to be two separate opinions. There is another option and it's called adoption.
John P. Bremer
international relations and economics sophomore
