Focus on the Family
Carrie Gordon Earll, Focus on the Family's director of Issue Analysis

"Mary Cheney's pregnancy raises the question of what's best for children. Just because it's possible to conceive a child outside of the relationship of a married mother and father doesn't mean it's the best for the child. Love can't replace a mom or a dad. Over the last 30 years, thousands of studies confirm that children do best when they have a married mother and father. There is no reputable evidence to say children fair as well in same-sex homes. Children deserve the very best we can offer and gay adoption - by definition - intentionally denies children either a mother or a father. Adoption laws should put the needs of children first, above the desires of adults."

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Concerned Women for America
Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, Senior Fellow of the Beverly LaHaye Institute

"For a woman as educated as Mary Cheney to deliberately bring a child into the world who will never know a father, flies in the face of the experts' agreement that, for a child's well being, it is best (not just good) to be raised in a married mother-father family.

"Even with all her privilege, Mary Cheney will be unable to do anything about the gaping hole in her child's family. In addition, her child will be vulnerable to a whole variety of negative outcomes -- drug use, juvenile delinquency, school drop-out -- not to mention the anger and other emotional problems that are typical of children whose fathers are absent while they are growing up.

"Mary Cheney is the face of the tragic and burgeoning trend of adult women who don't want a father in the picture, but want to have a baby. Thirty-seven percent of America's babies now are born to single mothers; the ramifications for all of us are disastrous. There will be a whole generation of little girls who will look for love in the wrong places and little boys will have no role model except the bad-boy celebrities on MTV."