Yes what’s required now is forceful political response.
I’ll get there. Please know that we #adoptees—institutionalized as infants, denied our vital records as adults, culturally viewed as “bad seeds”—are now seeing ourselves turned into a twisted rationale for inflicting harm.
I’ll get there. Please know that we #adoptees—institutionalized as infants, denied our vital records as adults, culturally viewed as “bad seeds”—are now seeing ourselves turned into a twisted rationale for inflicting harm.
This is massively traumatizing. I am NOT OK. Also please remember that the women who raised us suffered, by definition, from infertility and often repeated miscarriages. In many cases our adoptive mothers’ lives were saved by medical procedures now banned in many states.
My own adoptive mom, married and pregnant at 26, bled out and almost died from an ectopic pregnancy. When she woke up after emergency surgery she learned she’d had a partial hysterectomy and WASN’T PREGNANT ANYMORE. But she was alive. And it was a miracle.
Her entire family and a church congregation had been praying for this outcome.
And then she adopted me.
That story was the foundational narrative of my childhood.
Denied knowledge of my biological parentage, my adoptive mother’s near-death experience became my origin story.
And then she adopted me.
That story was the foundational narrative of my childhood.
Denied knowledge of my biological parentage, my adoptive mother’s near-death experience became my origin story.
In sum, my adoptive mother’s life was saved because a small town surgeon thought this woman’s life was more important than a doomed embryo and the law supported him.
That’s why she was alive to fucking adopt me three years later.
That’s why she was alive to fucking adopt me three years later.
Hence, SCOTUS arguments telling me that adoption is the alternative to abortion not only deeply violate my politics and values, they blow up the only story I know about my own origins.
I am working this through and will be back out on the streets with you when I can.
I am working this through and will be back out on the streets with you when I can.
Check in w the adoptees you know and ask how they are. Adoptees are overwhelming pro-choice and quick to side w all those dispossessed, objectified, and viewed as disposable. And sometimes that includes one’s birthmom AND adoptive mom.
#adopteetwitter #adopteevoices #RoeVsWade
#adopteetwitter #adopteevoices #RoeVsWade
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