Thread by @espiers

I’m an adoptee who (and this is rare) has a good relationship with my birth mother, who I only met four years ago. She carried me to term because she didn’t believe she had a choice and was deeply traumatized by giving me up.

https://twitter.com/srussellkraft/status/1466073992700342279

And I’m not such a narcissist that I think my own existence buttresses an anti-choice argument. I believe the world would have continued to turn without me and resent anti-abortion types who use adoptees to justify their nonsense.

People like Amy Coney Barrett, who have never had to contemplate giving up a child, are very blithe about this. Even if they have children—in part because they can’t fathom a scenario where they’d have to give their own child up.

There’s also a presumption that this process isn’t traumatic to women who don’t want children and that is completely wrong.