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It is illegal and unethical to do the things you mention.
1. You cannot adopt a child before he/she is born.
2. Even if a pregnant woman says that she wants to make an adoption plan, she ALWAYS has the right to change her mind after the baby is born. A child is not adoptable until the mother has had time to recover from the difficulties of giving birth and to hold her child.
3. It is a violation of U.S. law to obtain a visa for a pregnant woman to come to the U.S. for the purpose of delivering her child and placing him/her for adoption. The reason is that this approach often results in coercion of the woman. The woman's expenses are paid by the person hoping to adopt and his/her adoption facilitator. Then, when she delivers and has had a chance to see her baby, if she decides to parent, she may be told that she got all this help in exchange for placing the child for adoption. If she wants to keep her child, she is told, then she must pay back all of the money -- which is likely to be impossible, given that the women are usually low income. To further pressure her, the facilitator may take her passport and tell her lies like, "If you go to the police, they will put you in prison." So she winds up placing her child, which she doesn't want to do, just so she can go home. So many cases like this have occurred that these situations are prohibited by law.
In your country, I'm sure that there is a government child welfare agency that can help in situations like these. If not, then a local religious group may well sponsor an orphanage that can receive the child and make an adoption plan for him/her. In some cases, the group may also run a maternity home for young women who have become pregnant when unmarried, particularly in cases of rape, if the women do not have the financial resources to get medical care and such.
Sharon