I'm adopted, a mom, a woman with ~20 years of obgyn surgical history, and a historian of religion who knows why we frame abortion rights not as medicine but as a religious debate. I'm pro-autonomy, pro-choice, pro-abortion. a personal thread abt adoption, bc I'm mad y'all.
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Too many folks are throwing adoption around. Too many are doing that violent thing of: oh, think of the adopted kids! What if *you* got aborted? Hypothetical history questions are dumb. What if baby Hitler got smallpox? What if you didn't waste my time w this dumbass question?
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As an adopted person, I think about choice all the time. My own, as a uterus-owning woman, but more importantly? I think about my biomom's choices.
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All I know about her? She was "a teen," "Spanish," "hid pregnancy from loved ones." Did she choose to have sex or was she raped? Did she choose not to use BC or did it fail? Did she know she was pregnant "in time" or did her body (like mine) *never* have regular cycles?
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Did she choose the medical care she received or was it forced upon her by the adoptive/my parents? Was choosing adoption her only access to medical care? When she chose to hide the pregnancy from her family, was it because of physical, emotional, or the threat of such violence?
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The choice of keeping that pregnancy has literally nothing to do with *me* and everything to do with *her*. I was fiercely prochoice before kids. As a mom of biokids, I'm rabidly proabortion. Every mother should be willing. Every child should be wanted.
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And y'all, before you say a f'ing word: I am well aware that my adoptive parents wanted me. They lost 9--9!--pregnancies before adopting me. (My mom needed 2 D&Cs + had an ectopic, so she too is fiercely prochoice despite spending 15 years chasing pregnancy).
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Being adopted by loving, desperate-to-be parents parents *does not mean* I was a wanted pregnancy or child. And us adopted kids live with that our whole lives. I live w ?s of whether the woman who gave me life lost hers, lost part of herself, in that process--without a choice.
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Others can fill you in about the racism inherent in assuming women are vessels for some dude's kid. Others detail medical complications of pregnancy, childbirth. Others can explain non-Christian traditions that are prochoice & tell you why white Christians are extremists.
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There's other personal stuff here too: I've survived 7 obgyn surgeries, 2 of which nearly killed me, 1 of which saved my 1st born. I'm an assault survivor. I do a ton of adoption-related work & see the racist ways *some of us* are "adoptable" & others not. (Whiteness is key.)
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So ffs shut up about adoption. These anti-women & anti-people-with-uteruses bills are about women and people with uteruses. Those of us who have been adopted know better. You should too (or, listen to us, we're experts on this).
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This got more traction than I expected. Find my work with the power of google. Here's some orgs I like (an non exhaustive list):
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