As we fight about life in utero, let’s not forget the person standing in front of us.

While the couple has always talked about adopting, they are finding that caring for children in crisis, and the emotional roller coaster of dealing with an unpredictable legal system, can be hard, lonely work.

Since 1973, some 54 million abortions have been performed in the United States. Lots of myths have emerged in the intervening years to obscure and defend and rationalize what has Roe spawned.