A comment from a friend on Facebook:
In the US:
There are 2 million couples waiting to adopt.
Every year, for every 1 couple granted a baby, 36-40 couples are left still waiting. The divide between the amount of couples waiting to adopt babies and the amount of babies given for adoption has only increased over time. Babies resulting from an unwanted pregnancy typically go straight to a family through private adoption. Usually the only babies in the foster care system are those with medical problems that the parents couldn't afford to treat, or part of a sibling group take from the home. Most children in foster care were already older by the time they were taken from their home and placed in foster care.
In 2008, Planned Parenthood provided 324,000 abortions. If all those abortions had been live births instead, there would be parents there to adopt every single one of them, and that would still only grant babies to 17% of couples waiting to adopt, leaving 80% of couples still waiting.
There are very few babies born in this country that are actually unwanted. When the birth mother does not want the baby, there are always infertile couples who do.
To confront the issue of the risk of pregnancy (SLY), a recent study in Finland found that women who had an abortion were almost four times as likely to die within a year as women who gave birth (article #5). In addition to its immediate health risks (excessive bleeding, torn uterus, etc), abortion also carries with it the risk of endometriosis and miscarriage in later pregnancies, as well as breast cancer. You can count previous abortions in the list of life choices that can render a woman infertile. However, many causes of infertility are not the fault of the infertile couple, and it is insulting to imply that it is.
Source(s):
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m..._mark05048327/
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http://www.plannedparenthood.org/fil...2010-09-03.pdf
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http://www.hannahshouseoc.com/Adopti...tions_2565.htm
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http://www.adoption.com/
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http://www.pregnantpause.org/safe/stakes.htm