Flipping the Script: Adoption and Reproductive Justice
To #FlipTheScript means to challenge staid adoption narratives. It necessitates listening to adoptees’ truths, no matter how uncomfortable.
amy coney barrett
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Read more: Organizing and Activism of Adopted and Displaced People Organizing and Activism of Adopted and Displaced People
It is inhumane to perpetuate and promote trauma in service of an anti-abortion agenda.
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Read more: Adoption and the Meaning of Consent Adoption and the Meaning of Consent
In adoption, we rarely consider the constraints on autonomy that often preclude meaningful choice.
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Read more: A Birthmother Reflects: The Perpetuation of Adoption Myths 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: 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 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: Anti-Bias Training is Needed to Counter the Public Health Threat of Systemic Racism Anti-Bias Training is Needed to Counter the Public Health Threat of Systemic Racism
Continued failure to require anti-bias and anti-racist trainings, and certainly an executive order banning this type of training, is dangerous.
