Yes, but keep in mind that the death of the unborn is the default alternative, in this culture. it'd be easier to bring moral pressure to bear if that was not the usual recourse. Ann Coulter wrote a long rebuke of single motherhood, but she didn't take that into account, or not much. That adoption is the most reasonable and unselfish of the choices doesn't get much shrift anymore.
Remember how "aunts" and "cousins" would disappear and come home with a new baby? Everyone knew the score...
Every liberal I know has used the Bristol Palin pregnancy to “prove” that teenage abstinence is “unrealistic,” as Bristol herself said. All it convinced me to do was discourage serious dating by our teenagers.
I think that the ready availability of information about abortion via the Internet will actually turn people away from it in a way that wasn’t possible 20-30 years ago, when it was easier to push people into abortion by withholding information about the consequences. (I’ve found it ironic that the same people who celebrate “choice” do everything they can to make that choice an uninformed one.)
I’m certainly relieved that the baby is alive & healthy, but every shotgun wedding & single motherhood in my family hasn’t turned out well.
I wonder if Laura Ingraham has ever responded to Ann Coulter’s arguments...
I agree. I never understand that someone could kill their baby but they just couldn’t give it up for adoption. I’m not sure exactly what that says about our culture, but it’s bad. It makes me think of the mother in the story where Solomon tells 2 mothers who both claim a baby as theirs, that he will cut the baby in half. The real mother steps forward and says no, please give the baby to the other woman rather than kill it. That’s how mothers are supposed to be.