So government intrusion has made providing for a family far more expensive and difficult. You might wonder why, then, adoption isn’t a feasible option. After all, for every baby available for adoption in the United States, there are approximately 36 couples on an adoption waiting list.
Yet ever since Roe v. Wade, women have been largely choosing abortion over adoption. Of course, the abortion peddlers don’t make any money by promoting adoption, so they sell abortions as a painless solution to a temporary problem—a “get out of pregnancy free” card. Adoption, on the other hand, is much more emotionally taxing, they say. It’s much easier to kill a child you’ve never seen than to surrender one you’ve carried and delivered. Love is too costly. Long forgotten is the proverb, “If you love someone, set them free.”
Not surprisingly, pregnant women feel little incentive themselves to choose adoption. That would not be the case if birth parents were allowed to sell the right of parenthood to an adoptive couple.
Many couples also would love to adopt but couldn’t afford the $10,000 to $40,000 an adoption would cost them. Adoption should be a feasible option, but once again, government regulation has disincentivized a virtuous practice. Government should instead deregulate adoption and allow hopeful couples to purchase a child’s parental rights, and everyone will be happier (except for Planned Parenthood).
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