True love

In Ontario, for every 100 women who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy, 49% abort their children.

Another 49% choose to keep the child.

Only 2% choose adoption.

The ratio of couples wanting to adopt vs. babies available for adoption is roughly 70:1.

To the 2% - God bless you. What you are doing is heroic. It must be incredibly difficult to stand against the popular wisdom that tells you to put yourself and your own needs first. Instead, you have chosen to put the best interests of another life - your baby's! - ahead of your own. You have chosen to give this child life, and you have made a plan to give your child a stable home with a mom and a dad who are willing and able to raise and care for him. That is the definition of a good parent. That is what you are.

Your time as this child's parent will be brief, and soon the time will come for you to hand over that responsiblity to his adoptive parents, but the foundation of this child's life is being built right now in the choices that you are selflessly making for him.

Mother's Day is not too far away, and maybe your heart will break a little on that day. Mine will break a little too. But on that day, I will honour you as a good and true Mother.

God bless you.