From the article I perceive that Planned Parenthood type organizations strongly disapprove of pro-life organizations promoting adoption -- of course they would. What kind of funding would they get for their cause -- aka abortion -- if their cause went out the window? There are viable alternatives to abortion.

Pro-Choice places privilege above responsibility. Choice says, “It’s all about me." Sanger was a god in her own eyes: "Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them." Sanger's colleagues included dedicated racists. Lothrop Stoddard, a Harvard grad, who wrote The Rising Tide of Color against White Supremacy. This man was a Nazi enthusiast who described the methodology of the Third Reich as "scientific" and "humanitarian." Another of Sanger's esteemed associates Dr. Harry Laughlin, called for the purification of America's human "breeding stock" and elimination of America's "bad strains." These "strains" included the "shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of antisocial whites of the South."

So this is the background and foundation the pro-abortion movement draws its strength. Further, one does not have to be religious to realize the horrors of abortion. More doctors, even agnostics, simply refuse to carry innocent blood on their hands.

The bloodbath of abortion is the ultimate HOLOCAUST. Innocent unborn babies ripped from the womb -- BABIES WHO WOULD HAVE LIVED HAD THEY BEEN LEFT ALONE.

It is estimated that approx. 25% of the African American population has been aborted since 1973. Thus, eradicating a segment of society.

Now a more compelling question -- with the shortage of Jewish people worldwide after the holocaust why would any Jewish woman ever consider abortion? In fact, every Jewish family should have at least two more children than they originally planned.

The Jewish population is 13.3 million worldwide. Population growth worldwide is near zero percent. From 2000 to 2001 it rose 0.3%, compared to worldwide population growth of 1.4%. The holocaust being the main contributing factor for the serious lag.

http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/world-jewish-population.htm

It is possible that abortion has set us back 100 years, maybe even 1000 years. No doubt many of the unborn would have been great scientists, engineers and great leaders of every race, creed and color thrusting us forth in progress and innovation. Those whose agenda continue to destroy life should be called the new "Terminators" of society.

Hear the words of the L-rd :

"…I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing’

therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live."

Torah -- Deuteronomy 30:19 (NKJV)

Perhaps as a foreigner I've misunderstood, but I thought that the constitutional separation of church and state was what keeps prayer out of schools and intelligent design out of the science curriculum. If this separation is so absolute and inviolable in Education, why is government money funding organizations that are trying to push a religious agenda in the Health sector?

As tax payers, we fund all kinds of things we might consider objectionable. A pacifist pays for military spending just as much as anybody else. You can't have a "line-item-veto" on your tax dollars (or can you?).

Why not? The Amish are already exempted from Social Security contributions because they see it as a form of insurance rather than tax. Sunstein and Thaler explained the importance of a default setting (for senior drug plans for Medicare and 401(k) investment options) in "Nudge" to simplify financial decisions for people without the time, interest or personal expertise. As long as this is kept in mind when redesigning the system, I don't see the problem.

The total tax pot doesn't change, it's just allocated slightly differently (similar to the way several state Planned Parenthoods juggle their accounts so that abortions are funded from their donations pot and state funding kept to less controversial areas). I'd be very surprised if the vast majority of Americans didn't opt for the default. Only a relatively small percentage of the population has a serious issue with the use of their tax (defence spending for pacifists, abortion for evangelicals) and the little you lose by giving them a discretionary veto in these areas can easily be made up by the taxes paid by the vast majority who don't give a damn where it goes so long as it doesn't go UP. The total amounts payable are the same. The total pot is the same, the interstates and national infrastructure still get the same proportion of money, it's just being paid by slightly different people.

I had an experience with one of these centers as a teenager- after a condom broke, my boyfriend and I were frantically calling around our Midwest city to find someone who was open and could prescribe the morning-after pill on a weekend (this was obviously before it was available OTC). We called a Crisis Pregnancy Center, and they told us that the morning after pill was actually the same as the abortion pill, that anything that "terminated" a pregnancy was an abortion. They said that I should wait 10 days, come in and take a pregnancy test, and "make up my mind then." Luckily, I'd had comprehensive sex education at my public high school, and knew they were not the same and that I could get the pill elsewhere, which I eventually did. Crisis Pregnancy Centers are misleading, unethical fronts for hiding the safe and legal reproductive health choices women have in our country. They should not be funded by federal or state governments.

You don't know shit. When I was 20 and had an unplanned pregnancy, I went to Planned Parenthood. They helped me find an OB/GYN who would defer payment for prenatal care until I found adoptive parents for my child. For the record, this was the Planned Parenthood on College Avenue in San Diego California.

If you want to make adoption a mentally healthy option for women, it needs to be a choice.

Planned Parenthood absolutely, positively does provide a comprehensive range of services. But, hey don't let actual data get in the way of your biased agenda.