Letters to the Editor
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Why only two options?
I've just read through all these letters, and once again, I don't understand why everyone assumes the choice is between aborting a fetus with arms, legs and a heartbeat and raising an unwanted child without adequate resources.
A mother who wants the best for her child and cannot raise the child, for any reason, should give the child up for adoption. It is no longer true that minority babies don't get adopted; plenty of couples would love to adopt a healthy baby of any race. Catholic Charities chapters everywhere will support an expectant mother throughout her pregnancy, whether she chooses to keep her child or relinquish him.
I don't want to live in a society that enforces laws against abortion, but I don't want to live in a society that doesn't understand that abortion after 12 weeks is homicide. Justifiable homicide, perhaps, but homicide.