Abortion is presented as a safe, quick, painless answer. And we dupe women into believing that by withholding the rest of the story. During the last fifty years of unfettered abortion access in this country, we’ve learned what abortion does to the female body. We’ve been able to observe and study the side effects over time among large groups. Those findings reveal significant risks to women’s health.

There’s a marked increase in the number of people taking on single parent roles. The growing number of women having children outside of marriage has been climbing over the last 50-60 years. In 1960 only 5% of mothers were unmarried, and in 2015, that rate was 41%. That’s an increase of over 800%. As a result, many more children are living with solo parents.

What most people know today about adoption is based on preconceptions rooted in the past. Before the 1990s, most US adoptions were ‘closed’: the woman who gave birth was not allowed any information about the adoptive family. She was not permitted to have any ongoing relationship with her child, and vice versa. In many cases, the adoption and the very existence of this new person were carefully guarded secrets, and all involved shared an unspoken pact never mention it again.