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Many women understand instinctively that giving a child up for adoption is not all it is cracked up to be. Anti-choice people never address this. I gave a child up and I do know exactly what I am talking about. And it is often a throughly coereced dicision. One that possibly, a woman who is pregnant is not emotionally competent to make. The grief and sense of loss that the mother may feel for the rest of her life is very real, and there is no cure for it. Death is final. You have to deal with it. Adoption is a different thing. And I think that open adoption doesn't solve those problems. It is taking slowly, rather than quickly, and may actually cause greater grief in the long run.