Adoption Information Bill Introduced

     (FNIF) Congress moves to ensure that women considering abortion are told about adoption alternatives.

     A new bill in Congress would help get information about adoption into the hands of abortion-minded women.

     HR 1229, the Adoption Information Act, would require all family planning clinics that receive Title X money to provide detailed information about adoption and adoption centers, according to Rep. JoAnn Davis, R-Va., who authored the bill.

     "It just educates women so that when they're making their choice about what they want to do, they have everything in front of them," she explained.

     The bill also would benefit couples that want to have children but are unable to, because it will increase the number of children available for adoption.

     Dr. Janice Crouse, director of the Beverly LaHaye Institute at Concerned Women for America, said the bill is important because too often women struggling with an unplanned pregnancy think their only options are keeping the baby or aborting it.

     "This Adoption Information Act will make sure that they have the information they need to know that adoption is an option for them, and that this is the best thing they can do for their child," she said.

     "Then, in the future, instead of thinking of her child as a dead baby, something that was a mistake, she can think, 'I brought joy into a young couple's life and that child is going to be somebody who is loved, somebody who is a productive member of society.' "

By: Keith Peters
Source: Family News in Focus
Publish Date: April 26, 2004