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Adoption Blog
If you think adoption and a baby box are your best alternatives, then you obviously want what is best for your baby. While a baby box assures the safety of your baby, it may not be the best choice for your baby or you. Consider the following: Starting with what seems most important to you […]
Each state has its own criminal statutes and definitions of what constitutes fraud. At the very least, it not right to take money from prospective adoptive parents without intending to give up the baby for adoption, or more correctly, make an adoption plan for the baby. Some states like Indiana, make it a FELONY for a woman pretending […]
Indiana Code § 16-34-2-1 permits a woman to abort a baby during the first 10 weeks of her pregnancy if she got pregnant as a result of rape or incest. While Indiana’s new abortion law does not require a conviction or even a reporting of the rape or incest by the pregnant woman, Indiana Code § 16-18-2-306.7 expands the […]
Effective September 15, 2022, Indiana Code 16-34-2-1, will ban abortion in Indiana, except during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy to prevent “any serious health risk to the pregnant woman or save the pregnant woman’s life” or if “the fetus is diagnosed with a lethal fetal anomaly.” Also, a woman who got pregnant as a […]
NO! Adoption is not an alternative to abortion: it is an alternative to parenting when a birth mother is not ready to take on the lifetime commitment of raising a child. Some women get very upset at the notion that a woman who would consider abortion would naturally choose adoption. However, perhaps those women should, at […]