After Roe, there’s no time to party

Michael Reagan on Jul 1, 2022

I told them about Nancy Robbins. On the day she was born her father walked out on her mother because he didn’t want a child. Nancy was later adopted by the doctor who had married her mother.

And then there was John L. Flaugher. He was born to a young woman from Ohio who had been impregnated by a married man. After she gave birth to John alone in California, she gave him up for adoption.

So, OK, I asked the kids, what's the big deal with these unknown “unwanted” babies?

Well, Sarah Jane Faulks was Jane Wyman, an Academy Award-winning actress, the first wife of Ronald Reagan and my mother.

Nancy Robbins, who would be adopted by her mother’s second husband, Dr. Loyal Davis, became Nancy Davis, the actress, second wife of Ronald Reagan and first lady of the United States.

And John L. Flaugher, the baby put up for adoption in California by his un-wed mother, is actually the author of this column.

So, I asked the kids, imagine what life would have been like for the Reagan family – or the world, for that matter – if these three babies had been aborted instead of adopted?

During the half-century of abortion on demand that Roe made possible in 1973, an estimated 63 million future Americans were snuffed out.

Disproportionately black and brown lives, no one knows how much good they could have done for themselves, their families and the rest of us if they had been given a chance to live.

Again, I’m proudly pro-life. But I’m also really, really, really pro-adoption.

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