Meet Christine
Adoption is prolife for a lifetime
I believe adoption is a beautiful and compassionate alternative to abortion that provides a loving home for a child and gives hope to expectant parents. It’s a powerful choice that affirms life and creates families. It ensures that the woman who bore the child and gave him up won’t grieve the termination of a pregnancy, though there’s a grief she likely feels by putting her baby up for adoption.
This selfless act of love provides children with the opportunity to grow and thrive. Supporting adoption means celebrating the life of every child and the incredible journey of building a family through love and commitment. It is a testament to the power of human compassion.
About Christine
I’m a born-again believer in Jesus Christ. Also, a wife to the kindest, most patient man I’ve ever known, mother to two wonderful internationally adopted young adult children and author of nonfiction. I live by the radical idea that babies deserve life. At the moment of conception, they have all of their DNA in place as unique people with skills, talents and potential. Spiritual DNA, God’s DNA. “As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything” (Ecclesiastes 11:5 ESV).
Why This Matters
Many who support abortion actually think it kind to end the life of a preborn baby who is disadvantaged. They point to disabilities and poverty as hardships no child should have to suffer. A society that attempts to alleviate all forms of suffering with murder of the defenseless is barbaric and short-sighted.
We live in a fallen world. Even under the best of circumstances, no one can predict what other human beings may have to endure. Likewise, under difficult circumstances, no one can definitively pronounce what the quality of life may be for an individual facing challenges from birth. Had all mothers throughout history applied that reasoning to their preborn children and aborted them,we would have been robbed of renowned musicians, entrepreneurs, artists and more.
Another proabortion argument is that women should be able to do as they like with their bodies. A woman’s body does not consist of two complete sets of DNA or two heartbeats.
Our Adoption Story
Two children made me a mom after I struggled with infertility and was led by God to international adoption. My husband and I traveled halfway across the globe for them. Two mothers made the decision to give their babies life instead of subjecting them to the cruel tools of abortionists.
I’ve been asked several times, “Why didn’t you adopt here?” It wasn’t easy to adopt a baby in the United States because far too many are aborted. We were told by Social Services, “You’ll never get a baby. They’re premiums,” as if they’re rare, luxury cars out of our reach. On multiple occasions of finding young women with unplanned pregnancies they said, “they’d rather abort their babies than give them to strangers.” This selfishness thinking and potential demise of their babies shocked me to my core.
The Reality of Adoption
The experience of stepping inside of an orphanage and looking into beautiful, serious, sometimes pained faces of parentless babies is heart-wrenching. There’s a magnetic pull towards these children that makes one want to take them all home.
One in every six couples experience infertility. (theglobalstatistics.com) If the adoption process was less filled with red tape and more affordable, I can’t imagine how much of this seventeen percent of the globe’s population would line up to adopt another couple’s biological child. The Bible says this, “Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” (James 1:27 Berean Study Bible).
Closing
The process can be difficult but the reward is beyond measure. In Him, Christine
