[Integrityrocks]

Something else the democrats have done that have aided the right-to-life efforts unintentionally: They have placed pregnancy out of wedlock and single-parenting into a totally acceptable place in our society. Hence more pregnant teens and single women with unplanned pregnancies are keeping their children with little or no stigma.

[summer]

Re your post #25 -- Yes, but the looming question on that front remains the financial difficulties of single women keeping their babies, as usually a one-parent household is not as welathy as Murphy Brown, and most of these kids will be growing up in poverty. I think the points raised by the kids quoted in my post #17 foreshadows a problem for conservatives, in that what kind of new support networks are you willing to support for all these babies that will now be born into poverty if abortion becomes illegal? I don't ask that to cause a flamewar, but only to mention that "no stigma" is not really the case, since poverty is seen by many as a stigma.

What I'd like to also know is this: I don't understand why it is so difficult to adopt in this country. You always hear horror stories about people waiting years and years to adopt, so instead they fly off to some foreign country and come home with a baby. If abortion becomes illegal, something has to change in terms of adoption procedures or something in this country.