I just caught the last few minutes of Slate’s Will Saletan on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this morning (Ramesh has an excellent review of Saletan’s book, Bearing Right, in the Sept. 1 issue of NRODT, on newsstands RIGHT NOW, but not for long–see why you should subscribe??). One of the callers was an angry, suffering woman who was an unwed teen mother pre-Roe v. Wade, forced by her family to put the child up for adoption. She hates knowing that her baby is alive, having much rather aborted her child than let the child live, part of someone else’s family. This is nothing new, of course, in a day when wrongful-birth suits are nothing unfamiliar, and one feels for a woman so obviously in pain, but you certainly do have to pray that that adoption remains closed so that her child never has to hear that from his/her birth mother.