Many outside the #adoptee community seem shocked that Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe refers to the question of who will raise human beings as an issue of "supply and demand.'' Make no mistake -- this has been going on for nearly a century. #adopteevoices 🧵
As I learned in researching my book "American Baby," adoption has been a capitalistic transaction since the 1930s when state legislatures began passing secrecy laws to obscure the true nature of what was going on.
Millions of the #adoptees surrendered into the secret system that flourished in 48 states understand that the trajectory of their lives were determined by what was baldly referred to at the time as "supply and demand.''
References to the dearth of white babies for white families was so common in those days that it was bandied about by the American Academy of Pediatrics. A federal employee referred to the adoption industrial complex as a "sellers'' market. As if.
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