Medical News - Half those delaying pregnancy leave it too late, UK 01 Oct 2004 "Half of all women who put off trying for a baby until their 30s will fail to have a child, a new survey claims... women tend to overestimate how many childbearing years they have left and experts are now calling for sex education in schools to discuss how to get pregnant in adulthood.

Infertility problems are not fun - and treatments are costly as well. But with all the money to be made from infertility treatments, medical professionals neglect to promote ways to prevent infertility. These professionals are letting people down, not serving the public in the best way possible. There have been reports of "reproductive tourism" to the United States from other countries.  There have been reports that a human egg has sold by brokers for as much as $40,000 and a mother to incubate her own child (as a so-called "surrogate") has "sold" for $170,000. The "markup" must be good.  According to some websites, the egg donor (natural mother) gets $5,000 for multiple eggs extracted per  "donation".   Not only may the treatments utilized to obtain multiple eggs affect the "donor's" health but women have a limited supply of eggs.  So when multiple eggs are extracted it means the "donor" will experience an earlier onset of infertility themselves.  And - even though the "child" may relate to her infertile buyers "need" to buy her -  for the child being raised in a situation where she is cut off from all - or half of - her natural family, it is not an ideal situation.

It's a shame people don't know more of the suffering of women who have been used as the source of babies for adoption - and what an adoptee might experience.  Now naive women are making babies on purpose for their friends, startled to find afterwards how incredibly painful it is to lose your child to adoption.

It's time the professionals are honest with people and work to prevent an infertility crisis.

The Surgeon General is calling for open records for adoptees - I hope  the Surgeon General will also insist on some regulations preventing solicitation for a for a man or woman's child or potential children.

Association with - and knowledge of - your natural family is not only a good idea for medical reasons - it is a human right.  It is a human right for  parents and siblings too - not just the adopted or artificially-created person. 

Read about open adoption to see how things might be for those parents and siblings: Article on open adoption.  Read also about closed adoption.

"The barren womb cannot be satisfied."  But education about infertility prevention - and stopping the unethical practices to get people unrelated babies to use "as if" they were their own - might prevent much future suffering.

"Was it luck? Maybe. Was it fate? Possibly. Was it a miracle?"

Wizard: Wise and friendly users of magic, applying their powers to help those who deserve it, and punish those who don't.   

"Was it luck? Maybe. Was it fate? Possibly. Was it a miracle?"

"I read part of your unplanned pregnancy website and I agree that open adoption is bad,"  a woman wrote to me from a Pro-Life organization. 

First, advertise the "adoption option" until people truly believe that unrelated caregivers are preferable to a child's own family.

Second, develop a lexicon to support this rediculous idea and call it "respectful adoption language".  ("Respectful"?  Their objective is to get babies, so of course they don't mention that the "adoption language" DISRESPECTS natural families.)

Third, Infant Adoption Awareness Training (IAATP) to get a pregnant mom surrounded by people who will "think adoption". 

Fourth,  Limit a woman's "choices" to adoption or abortion.  Get churches involved in separating families and call this activity "pro-life".   Get people chattering mindlessly about "human dignity" while they separate moms and babies and make grandmothers regret that they did not stop it in time. 

Fifth, Choose Life License Plates - with proceeds going ONLY toward "adoption services" - services which are designed to get more babies for people to use "as if" they were born to them.   

Sixth, Baby Safe Havens - again offering a scared mom no "option" other than baby abandonment .

Seventh, get moms to believe they have already "choosen adoption" and encourage them to select prospective adopters long before they have a chance to think, before they have any way of knowing what they are choosing.  Ensure moms will feel beholden to the seemingly friendly prospective adopters and not want to disappoint them by keeping their own sons and daughters. 

Eighth, ... 


Obviously I could go on with this thought process for a long time...adding things like denying parents the information they would need to make an informed choice, denying fathers rights, denying a child's right to her own family.  Spreading rumors and generating myths that young mothers and  single mothers  are bad mothers.   Playing a game of "divide and conquer" pitting mothers and fathers against each other and grandparents against their pregnant daughter or son. 

Pro-Life Views - Comparing Assisted Suicide and Adoption 

Pro-life proponents are generally opposed to assisted suicide. One argument made is that suicide assistance is usually requested by a patient out of desperation and is unlikely to be desired by a patient who receives adequate services, counseling and pain management. The pro-life view is that compassion for the dying demands that we provide services, rather than provide opportunities for ending life. Instead of assisted suicide, pro-lifers are in favor of providing humane services for all people - neither the morality of these people nor whether they have planned and are financially prepared for an expensive elongated illness is a consideration.

Many people, especially in a society like that of the United States where profit often trumps humanity, may come to the conclusion that those who cannot care for themselves should be neglected or made to feel like a tremendous burden so they will “choose” suicide. A person who "chooses" suicide may even be lured by the incentive that they can help others through planned organ donation. Others may have their paperwork forged or a signature obtained through misrepresentation and fraud to get them out of the way.

Like the elderly or the infirm, young people who are just starting out or people who have experienced a layoff or some other setback may also benefit from compassionate assistance at times. An unexpected pregnancy may be a source of distress for those who want their child but wonder how they will be able to care for her. As with assisted suicide, there is a tendency for people to want to provide a quick  “solution”that ignores the humanity of the mother, family and child.

In promoting the “option” of legal abandonment, the euphemism “adoption” is used. A form of “assisted suicide” - the killing off of their motherhood or fatherhood through the removal of their child - is often held out to parents as the only help available. Parents may be further lured by the promise of making someone else’s life better by donating their offspring. Some parents may have the paperwork fraudulently handled to get them out of the way. Based on state laws, fathers frequently have their rights terminated for them before they even have a chance to establish paternity.

In reality, a mother is much more than someone who “just gives birth”. A father is more than a "conception object".  A child is a part of his family the way a person’s arm or leg is a part of her body. Just like it would be unconscionable to remove a living person’s arm, leg or vital organ to provide it to someone else, it is wrong to remove a baby from her family for use by someone else. Whether the recipient treats the baby well is of no consequence.

End-of-life arguments made by Pro-Lifers should also apply to unplanned pregnancy. As with assisted suicide, the argument about the need for compassion should be used when an unexpected pregnancy occurs.

Adequate services, counseling and assistance are lacking.  Males need to take responsibility for pregnancy prevention as well as for all of their children - even those born when they are not married to their child's mother. 

Limiting a woman's options may get more babies for adoption, but it is not healthy for moms and babies to be separated at birth.  (See effects of  adoption and effects of open adoption.)

With proceeds from Choose Life Tags going ONLY for adoption "services", women have ONLY the "options" of abortion or adoption. 

With Baby Safe Haven or Baby Moses Laws, a scared mom is given ONLY the "option" of baby abandonment.

With Infant Adoption Awareness Training (IAAT), a mother's support system is being removed so she will feel she has no real options but to surrender her precious baby.

A special "adoption language" is being promoted that will help to get more babies for the adoption market.  Mothers and fathers have been demoted to "birthmom objects" and "birthfather objects", while unrelated people are called "parents" long before they have even found a vulnerable mother to use as the source of a baby.

Families are solicited for their healthy infant sons and daughters by means of "Dear Birthparent", "Dear Birthmom", "Dear Birthmother" letters, adoption business cards and by hiring "adoption professionals" to "counsel" moms in a way that will make it easier to get their babies.  With the intense promotion of open adoption and it's associated lies, we now have a shameful Domestic Adoption Baby Boom.

Where pro-life views are concerned, respecting the dignity of life means respecting family relatedness.  Families should not be torn apart to get babies for adoption. 

"If you determine that you can afford $40,000 in your quest for a child, you might decide to budget $20,000 for one cycle of IVF (in vitro fertilization) and the remaining $20,000 for adoption. Or you may elect to try two or three IVF cycles. Whatever you decide, it’s imperative to be emotionally prepared to walk away from treatment when you’ve reached your financial limits."

"A few months ago, I ran into a woman who had attended that workshop while she and her husband were in the adoption process. She asked me how our sons’ birth parents were doing, calling them each by name. My mouth dropped open."

Honoring Natural Moms on Mother's Day.

Mother’s Day is for honoring mothers - grandmothers, step-mothers, working mothers, stay-at-home mothers. I have heard in some churches women who have had abortions have been remembered as the mother of their unborn child on Mother’s Day. But there are some mothers who have been forgotten - these are the mothers who have been used like livestock and had their babies harvested from them to be used for adoption. In the 1950’s, 60’s and early 70’s millions of white single mothers were punished for having a baby. Many were denied any information about childbirth. When they went into labor they were left alone with no support and no pain relief. But the worst punishment was losing their child. Some were not even told whether they had a son or daughter.

The Mother-and-Child relationship is like no other. A baby bonds with her mother in the womb. A baby looks to her mother for security and no other caregiver - not even the baby’s father - can replace her. Many hospitals now recognize the importance of keeping newborns with their mothers, rather than separating them. Experts emphasize the benefits to a baby that come from nursing and her own mother’s milk, designed for her.

Yet with all that is known about the importance of a baby’s mother to her well-being, some vulnerable and naïve mothers are still being led to believe that their infant sons and daughters will be better off with someone else. Even a dog breeder knows better than to separate puppies from their mother before they are sufficiently mature.

This Mother’s Day, help and honor teenage moms and single moms who are taking responsibility for their children. Acknowledge natural mothers as mothers, not "birth objects" meant to be used as the source of a baby for adoption.