Adoption vs Abortion

"See everybody at the door ain't got a key. You on the outside looking in, now tell me what you see"
A friend of mine and I were watching the TV series Teen Mom. Teen Mom is basically a show that shows these young girls who have children at 16. They follow the girls and their lives from the time the girls are in their third trimester, give birth, and up until the child turns 1 year old. This season was a good one, in my opinion. There were four girls on there. Maci and her son, Bentley. Amber and her daughter Leah, Farrah and her daughter Sophia, and Catelynn and her daughter Carly. Although I could write on these four girls all day lol...this blog will be discussing Catelynn and Tyler (her boyfriend/baby's father) situation. Tyler and Catelynn gave their daughter Carly up for adoption. My friend and I were having a debate on adoption and abortion shorty after the show went off.
She felt as though Catelynn and Tyler should have kept their child, struggled with her, and raised her alone. I felt that the young couple made the correct decision. Both her and I felt that although abortion is your choice, we are both pro-life, so Catelynn not getting an abortion was a good thing in our opinion. Catelynn and Tyler were dirt poor, living in a tailor home, and lived with their parents. Tyler's Dad was married to Catelynn's Mom ((I don't even know why Tyler and Catelynn were dating and having sex than! Maybe they got bored and decided to do it, Idk lol...but anyways....)) It wasn't exactly the best environment to be raising a child. It could have been done....
But Catelynn and Tyler decided to find a perfect family for Carly, a couple that could give her everything that they could not give her....mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally and financially. Nor did they have a support system themselves. The only family they had were individual parents who were now married to each other, who did not support Catelynn and Tyler upon the disclosure of Catelynn's pregnancy. In fact, the parents moved out and Catelynn and Tyler were forced to try to find a way to make it on their own.
Adoption, in my opinion, when done right, is the most selfless act a mother could do for her child, esp when the act is done for the best for the children. Simply giving your child to a foster home or orphanage in my opinion is different from adoption. Adoption, to me, is when the biological parents set out to find a fit couple for their child. And a lot of adoptions are sometimes closed, but Catelynn and Tyler decided to keep theirs open. So they get pictures and updates about Carly ever three months or so.
I can't say what I will or wont do when faced with a situation like pregnancy when in a situation such as Catelynn and Carly's. Esp when I look at movies such as Pursuit of Happyness when Will Smith was living in a shelter with his son and sleeping on the floor in a public restroom in a train station. I can not even begin to image what to do, how to think, what to feel. But in a situation so bad, I would not want my child to be exposed to that struggle of me having nothing and living in a shelter.
Everyone isn't strong enough for adoption, abortion, or raising a child. Different people have different degrees of strength, and what they can and cannot take and/or sacrifice in their life. Watching that show taught me a humbling experience and here I was thinking I was just watching it to be entertained. It taught me to be thankful for my parents, grandparents, and their struggles to raise me and get me to where I am today and for their continuing support. Lord knows I could have been Carly, or one of the Carlys of the world, but I wasn't and I'm not.
I try harder now to not judge a person so quickly, esp if I don't have all of the facts and background behind their story, which you usually don't, because people disclose to you what they want you to know about them. Adoption or abortion, what would you do?