This is one of the reasons I tell my daughter, adopted from China, that her birth mother was probably very brave. We can never know her circumstances, but an abortion would have been easy to get in China. My daughter was born in a very poor, rural area and because giving up your child for adoption is illegal in China, someone, most likely her mother risked her freedom by dropping my daughter off outside of a police station where she would be found. They brought her to an orphanage. A year later she was ours.
And it’s not only abortion— many (mostly) baby girls or boys with handicaps are also abandoned in dumps, drowned or killed in other ways. There was a documentary on of an older lady that lived in a run down shack near the local dump. The documentary was about how many children she had saved when she heard cries coming from the trash heap. People were just throwing out baby girls!
Our Father... Hallowed be Thy name.
We are so fortunate to live in North America.