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Eric Zorn\u2019s Change of Subject column<\/a> links to a New Republic article<\/a> on the anti-adoption movement \u2014 birthparents who feel they were deceived by adoption agencies, and their supporters.\u00a0 Among the deceptive practices they list are money given them for pregnancy expenses, pressure to decide in the 24 hours after childbirth, promises by the adoptive parents to keep the birth mother in their life, and failure to provide information on the father\u2019s responsibility to provide child support, welfare benefits available, etc.\u00a0 They say that the birthmother\u2019s experience is traumatic and the loss she feels is continual.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve read of a similar movement in Australia, where their ultimate goal was that, in the rare circumstance in which a mother would not or could not parent her child, the new relationship formed with caretakers be that of guardianship only, with the mother remaining, in law, the mother.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the catch: a\u00a0part of the argument appears to be that any woman in financial difficulties due to a pregnancy, and who can\u2019t afford to care for the child independently should be given as much State support (that is, welfare) as it takes.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

What of the woman who simply doesn\u2019t want to be pregnant?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I suppose if you\u2019re \u201cprochoice\u201d in the sense that you think abortion has no moral significance and is just a medical procedure like any other, than the answer is that a woman who wants her child keeps it and a woman who doesn\u2019t, aborts.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

This \u201canti-adoption\u201d movement has no room for a woman who doesn\u2019t want to be a mother, but likewise feels that abortion is morally wrong.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if, in their world, no pregnant woman would ever not want to be a mother, or if they simply take for granted that abortion is the right and proper response for unwillingly-pregnant women, or if they simply believe the genetic connection is paramount, and so sacred that it must never be severed.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s particularly sad is that poor women have likewise absorbed this anti-adoption attitude and turned it into, \u201cit\u2019s better to get an abortion than to give a child up for adoption, because at least then you don\u2019t have to wonder about what happened to the baby.\u201d\u00a0 Even women and girls who believe that abortion is killing a human being say that this is a better choice than adoption, \u201cbetter dead than adopted,\u201d I guess.\u00a0 (\u2013 based on articles I\u2019ve read in the past and books interviewing these women.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"