A Birthmother Reflects: The Perpetuation of Adoption Myths
To insinuate that it is simple to relinquish a child for adoption diminishes the magnitude of the deep loss for the first/birth mother and the adoptee.
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Read more: The Racialized History of Adoption Practice The Racialized History of Adoption Practice
The reimposition of the adoption logic is incompatible with reproductive dignity, safety, and justice, and inimical to human rights.
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Read more: Safe Haven Laws and Anti-Abortion Politics Safe Haven Laws and Anti-Abortion Politics
Anti-abortion advocacy and values consistent with Catholic and other conservative religious ideologies are at the core of safe haven laws.
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Read more: The False Choice: Adoptee Voices in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom The False Choice: Adoptee Voices in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom
Relinquishing a child for adoption is an alternative to parenting that child, not to carrying a pregnancy to term.
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Read more: The Reproductive Violence of Family Policing & Separation The Reproductive Violence of Family Policing & Separation
Justice Coney Barrett’s comments highlight the way in which forms of reproductive control and violence intersect in the lives of Black women.
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Read more: The Freedom to Choose (to Give Your Babies Away) The Freedom to Choose (to Give Your Babies Away)
Justice Coney Barrett’s remarks reveal a cluelessness about the human condition and the meaning of bearing a child and then placing a newborn for adoption.
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Read more: The Danger of Forced Pregnancy The Danger of Forced Pregnancy
There is a word for forcing people to do unpaid reproductive labor on behalf of others: enslavement.
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Read more: Adoption, Family Separation & Preservation, and Reproductive Justice Adoption, Family Separation & Preservation, and Reproductive Justice
Adoption is a reflection of our country’s many and increasing failures to allow people control over their own reproductive choices and bodies.
