Imagining a Nation without Abortion

January 25, 2011 by Tim Muldoon

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*Note: There is not reliable data to make this an easy claim. However, The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption institute offers data (here and here) that show some indicators. In brief: in 1995 (the last year for data available) there were 500,000 women seeking to adopt. The number of adoptions has declined since the Roe v. Wade decision, suggesting that many who would have been adopted were killed in utero. In 1995, "126,951 children were adopted through international, foster care, private agency, independent and step-parent adoptions." My guess, based on these statistics and on years of anecdotal evidence, is that the difficulty of adoption dissuades many families from pursuing it.

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Tim Muldoon holds a Ph.D. in Catholic systematic theology and is an award-winning author and Catholic theologian of the new evangelization.

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