Adoption as an Option When You Cannot Get an Abortion in Indiana

By: Grant Kirsh

If you are facing an unplanned pregnancy in Indiana and feel like your options have narrowed, you may be wondering what choices you actually have. This is a hard and personal situation, and you deserve clear, honest, judgment-free information.

At Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C., we are a family-run Indiana adoption law firm with nearly 50 years of experience. We are not here to tell you what to do. We are here to explain how adoption works, so that if it is a path you want to consider, you understand it fully.

Indiana’s Current Abortion Law

Indiana law significantly restricts abortion. The specifics of the law and its exceptions have changed over the past few years and can be complex. Because laws change and individual situations vary, we encourage you to seek current legal and medical guidance about your specific circumstances. What we can speak to with deep experience is adoption.

Is Adoption the Same as Abortion?

No. They are completely different choices. Adoption means carrying your pregnancy and then placing your baby with a loving family who will raise them. You would not be raising the child yourself, but the child would grow up in a stable, loving home, and in an open adoption, you could stay connected and watch them grow.

For many women who are not ready to parent but who cannot or do not wish to pursue abortion, adoption offers a path forward that many describe as both loving and empowering.

“I Am Not Ready for a Baby and My Family Cannot Help Me.”

This is one of the most common situations we see, and adoption was designed for exactly this. You do not need to have family support, financial stability, or a place for a baby in your life right now to choose adoption. In fact, adoption can give you breathing room. Financial help is available during your pregnancy under Indiana law, including help with housing, food, and medical costs. Our services are 100% free to you.

You can place your baby with a wonderful family, knowing your child will be loved and cared for, while you move forward with your own life.

“I Do Not Want to Be Pregnant.”

We understand that for some women, the pregnancy itself feels overwhelming, especially when it was unplanned and unwanted. We cannot change the fact of the pregnancy, but we can tell you that you do not have to face it alone, and you do not have to raise a child you are not ready for. Adoption is a way through. Many women find that having a plan, knowing their baby will go to a loving family, brings real relief during a hard pregnancy.

What Adoption Offers You

When you choose adoption with Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C., you choose the family from over 100 waiting families. You decide the level of ongoing contact, and all our families commit to letters and photos for at least 18 years. You receive financial help during pregnancy. You get your own attorney, free, paid for by the adoptive family. You receive counseling, covered 100% by the adoptive family. And you almost certainly will never have to step foot in a courtroom.

You Deserve Support, Not Judgment

Wherever you are in Indiana, whether Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Evansville, South Bend, Carmel, Fishers, Bloomington, Hammond, Gary, Muncie, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Kokomo, Anderson, or Greenwood, we are here to talk through your options with compassion and zero judgment. Reaching out costs you nothing.

Call or text us at 800-333-5736. Visit us at IndianaAdoption.com. Everything is free and confidential.

This is a sensitive topic. If you are struggling emotionally, please know that support is available, and we can help connect you with caring resources.

About the Author
Grant Kirsh is a second-generation adoption attorney and owner of Kirsh & Kirsh, P.C., a family law firm in Indianapolis, Indiana that has been serving Indiana families since 1981. Grant graduated from Indiana University McKinney School of Law in 2013 and has personally handled nearly 3,000 foster care adoptions and his law firm has handled over 5,000 private newborn adoptions. He practices all forms of domestic adoption, with a deep personal commitment to expectant mothers considering adoption in Indiana and Indiana’s foster care system and the families and children it serves.