So, the lady didn't have the resources and maturity to raise a child. It's good she knew that. But it would have been far, far better for all concerned if she'd either 1) figured that out before having sex and either abstained or practiced birth control or 2) gave the baby up for adoption. And if she was willing to carry the child for twenty-three weeks, surely a few more wouldn't have been that big a stretch? And healthy newborns have very good odds of being adopted.

I have a friend who works as a childbirth/lactation coach. She usually has problems with expectant mothers/nursing mothers who have had previous abortions--they start out emotionally detached, unhealthily so, from their bodies and the babies growing inside them, sometimes even after the baby is born. They can't connect, because if they do they have to admit to themselves that they ended the life, all the future possibilities, of a fetus/infant just like the one they're carrying. Then they get attached to the infant, but have to deal with that, and it can be devastating to them. Not every one follows that pattern, certainly, but ...