The baby-scoop era represented a societal betrayal of the parent-child bond as professionals, families, and churches pressured or coerced single pregnant women to place their children for adoption. This articles provocatively portrays this betrayal as "aborting motherhood." Beyond trying to provoke an awareness of past wrongs, this article portrays a prior era in which Christian ministries to single mothers and their children worked to keep mother and child together. This is done particularly through telling the story of Dr. Kate Waller Barrett and her foundational role in the earlier era of the Florence Crittenton homes.