I've always been and always will be a believer that reducing the demand for abortion is the best overall solution. A lot of that is birth control, but some of it is what organizations like birthright do. If you are staunchly anti abortion and are actively working with orgs like that and/ fostering kids I have the ultimate respect for that. It's walking the walk. The Jesus of the Bible I've read wouldn't be holding abortion is murder signs outside of a clinic, that much I'm sure of.
We do not foster yet, but it is something we have discussed and have mostly decided it is something we would like to pursue once our children are grown. I guess it seems like a copout, but with four kids at home, we do not think it is something to pursue yet.
When we lived in Manhattan, our church did a lot of work with and supported Life Choice Ministries which runs the pregnancy crisis center on Anderson. It is an organization that is devoted to trying to help women avoid abortion, but it also offers some material help and I know we always had a list of resources the center needed donated. I also know the center says it offers post-abortion support as well, and I never got the sense that support was of the kind that would be condemning.
We go to church in Chanute now and I know there are always resources, e.g. food, available to mothers that need it. There is a number of a person at our church they can contact and arrange to receive help.
I have a cousin that has twice given birth as a young, single mom. The first one she gave up for adoption and it kind of broke our hearts that she did that. I don't mean that in a blaming way towards her, but when we found out we wished we had offered to adopt her kid ourselves. The second time we were prepared to adopt the child if she was not going to be able to keep it. We never said anything to her and she decided she would keep the baby, but we had definitely made up our minds to adopt the baby.
