The New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser laced into Madonna on Wednesday for what she called the pop star’s “express checkout lane” adoption of a Malawian baby.

Ms. Peyser certainly wasn’t alone in her criticism of Madonna following in Angelina Jolie’s maternal footsteps. What was surprising about the column was Ms. Peyser’s choice of another adoptive parent as a “Better Ma.”

“When Merle Hoffman sought to adopt a Russian girl, she went through more than a year of red tape, paid in excess of $20,000, and had to fly to Siberia — twice — in snowstorms before she stood a chance of taking home a bundle of joy,” Ms. Peyser wrote.

E-mails soon flooded in from every corner of the city. Opponents of legalized abortion were stunned that Ms. Hoffman, the president of Choices, which they call an abortion mill, could even be considered an exemplary mother.

Kathy Mylott recently adopted a child whose mother, in the midst of a crisis pregnancy, found hope and help to give her baby life, and then made the heroic decision to place her up for adoption. Ms. Mylott wrote that she almost choked on her tea when she read Ms. Peyser’s column.

Ms. Mylott wanted the public to know who Merle Hoffman is. “Anyone who has ever been involved in the pro-life movement in Brooklyn and Queens is well aware of who Merle Hoffman is and how she made her millions — by running one of the busiest abortion mills in the country, where thousands of innocent babies have met their death,” she wrote.

Another correspondent, Sister Marie Regina, one of the Sisters for Life, added her opinion to the controversy. Perhaps, the good sister noted, Ms. Peyser should have spoken to Monsignor Phillip J. Reilly of the Precious Blood Monastery. He is the founder of the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, which organizes vigils at abortion clinics. Its mission statement asks, “Would you spend some time with the little babies in your own neighborhood before they die? Maybe you’ll even be able directly to save lives; maybe not. What’s even more important: you’ll be there.”

Sister Marie Regina said that of the 100 women who go to Choices daily, between 15 and 20 decide to choose life for their children after speaking with Msgr. Reilly. He is also there all day long to offer the men and women who choose abortion information on post-abortion healing when they come out. “The irony that so many couples are forced to go abroad to adopt precisely because we are aborting 1.5 million children a year is noticeably absent from the article, as well,” she said.

The irony also may be lost on many in the mainstream press, but that’s no surprise. Many journalists have a mindset that places opponents of legalized abortion somewhere between the Taliban and harmless wackos obsessing over fetuses. But the harsh truth is that the vibrant pro-life movement in this country has probably saved America from the inevitable doom facing the European Union and the other developed nations of the world.

The author of “America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It” and a columnist for The New York Sun, Mark Steyn, explained in an essay for National Review that for a stable population, you need a total fertility rate of 2.1.

Canada has 1.48, Japan has 1.32, and Europe as a whole has 1.38. Japan’s population shrank last year for the first time, with 21,266 more deaths than births. The rapid aging of almost all the developed countries, save America, is caused when a society’s birth rate falls and it finds itself with fewer children and more grandparents. America’s rate is 2.1. Hooray!

While we may have a problem with illegal immigration, the swell of immigrants here are predominantly from Christian countries in Central and South America. The immigrants flooding shrinking Europe are Islamic, an explicitly political religion that transcends borders, Mr. Steyn writes. “In defiance of normal immigration patterns, the host country winds up assimilating to Islam: French municipal swimming baths introduce gender-segregated bathing sessions; Australian hospitals remove pork from hospital menus,” he writes.

In America, the blue states are more likely to embrace multiculturalism. California mandates a course that requires seventh-graders to learn about Islam. One teacher in the Byron Union School in Byron, Calif., adopted a student guide that began, “From the beginning you and your classmates will become Muslims.” Unconstitutional? Only for Judeo-Christians, silly.

The birth gap between conservatives and liberals has been well-documented. The Orthodox Jewish community and Hispanic Christians, however, are keeping New York well-stocked, though I see more and more communities being built for adults only.

Whatever one may think about celebrity adoptions, as a mother of six and a grandmother of five, I declare that loving babies is a very good and healthy thing for our country.