If Only More Would Consider Adoption

Re “The Ones Who Never Make It to the Cradle” (March 28): Most young women faced with a crisis pregnancy only consider two possible courses of action--abortion or parenting. If abortion is eliminated, either for religious or moral reasons or because the optimum time for the procedure is past, parenting seems to be the only alternative. Typically, the adoption option is not even raised by doctors, nurses, or social workers.

Many more babies would make it to the cradle if adoption were acknowledged as a time-honored, loving and authentic way of providing children with the true parents they need and deserve.

LYNN F. KESSLER

Executive director

Adoption Research Center

Sherman Oaks

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Your staff writer Duane Noriyuki has delivered a powerful message.

The Baby Anthony Program at the St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood will take any unwanted baby any time, no questions asked. “Our ambulance will go anywhere to pick up a baby,” Mary Ann Morrison, vice president of clinical services at the hospital, is quoted as saying. Yet, since the program was founded in 1992, not one abandoned baby has been brought in and we read of tiny bodies found in trash bins.

The message about the program should be on every bus bench and in every newspaper.

JAMES HARDIE

Rancho Palos Verdes