Adoption is not an alternative to abortion.

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46. here are stats that google brings to me

hence I am not vouching for the political correctness of the source. If somebody has a better one, then show it to me. But this one says

reasons for abortion

unready for responsibility - 21%
too young or immature to have a child - 11%
has problems with relationship or wants to avoid single parenthood - 12%
has all the children she wanted or all children are grown - 8%
can't afford baby now - 21%
concerned about how having a baby would change her life - 16%

that looks like 89% of all abortions for that collection of reasons.

But every single one of those would also seemed to be solved by adoption.

"unready for responsibility?" There is no responsibility if you give the baby up for adoption.

"too young or immature to have a child?" not a problem if the child is given up for adoption.

"wants to avoid single parenthood?" uhm, adoption

"has all the children she wanted?" with adoption, you don't have to keep this one

"can't afford baby now?" Unless that means "cannot afford to HAVE a baby" versus "cannot afford to RAISE a baby" then once again, adoption would take care of the costs of raising the baby. Heck, some couples who want to adopt might even pay for the cost of HAVING the baby.

"concerned about how having a baby would change her life?" Again, if you do not keep it, the baby does not change your life much at all.

Adoption clearly seems like a viable alternative to abortion.

Although I may have to walk that back a bit, because the demand for adoptions is perhaps NOT as large as the supply of aborted fetuses. Not even close. Seems like only about 130,000 children are adopted in an average year http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/children-adopted-year/

Whereas over a million are aborted. So if even 30% of those abortions became adoptions, that would seem to overwhelm the supply of couples who want to adopt. Maybe there is a huge backlog of couples waiting to adopt, but even that would seem to be cleared out in a couple of years with an extra 300,000 babies being available.

But while it would not be an answer for all of them, it could be an answer for some of them.