What about adoption? People always seem to consider the options of abortion or keep the baby yourself, and adoption is sidelined/ignored.
50,000 kids are adopted a year in the US
800,000 abortions are done a year in the US (480,000 of those in the first 8 weeks, less then 12,000 of those in the last trimester)
100,000 kids are awaiting adoption inside the US
Millions of children worldwide are awaiting adoption
The adoption option isn't ignored. We'd all love if there was a home for every child. But the number of people willing and capable of adopting would only put a small dent in the number of abortions. And there's no shortage of children looking for homes as it is. The story portrayed in Juno, where the young mother finds to maturity to give birth and finds a loving foster parent is very nice. But it's a tiny, tiny subset of reality and we can't ignore the larger picture. And honestly, I have to question the morality of seeking to increase the number of babies put up for adoption when there are already so many waiting. Is it moral to prevent an abortion in america and have that child go up for adoption if that means a child in the 3rd world is not adopted and lives in poverty or even dies? Beyond all else, I think these dilemias show why availability and acceptance of birth control is a moral imperative. But faced with the dilemia, I would suggest that it's better for a young mother to abort in the first eight weeks, terminating a life that is in no way concious, if that saves her the enormous burden of a pregnancy she can't handle and gives another child a better life.
Often, conservative politicians cite adoption, claiming how it is better then abortion. But I personally believe their stance to be morally repungant. If we, as a society, are to dictate that abortion is unacceptable because adoption exists, then we damn well better support adoption. But getting the US government to declare that social welfare is a state responsibility is like trying to squeeze water from the heart of a stone. And it is the same politicians who trumpet the sanctity of human life who deny the funding that would be needed.
Show me a billion dollars a year for maternity support (pregnancy both an enormous expense and hardship, even without parenthood.) and 14,000 couples who'd adopt the children each year before you suggest that adoption is a replacement for even 3rd trimester abortion, let alone all abortion.