Separation, Sorrow, and Silence: What Birth Mothers and Birth Searching in Children’s Literature Can Teach Us About the Abortion v. Adoption Debate

S. Dahlen
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This article compares one fictional birth mother’s experience (in Son by Lois Lowry, 2012) to actual testimonies of birth mothers in real life. Understanding this trauma should give pause to anyone suggesting that adoption is a painless and desirable alternative to abortion.
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分离、悲伤和沉默:儿童文学中的生母和寻找生母对堕胎与收养之争的启示
这篇文章将一个虚构的生母的经历(Lois Lowry, 2012)与现实生活中生母的真实证词进行了比较。理解了这种创伤,应该会让那些认为收养是一种无痛的、比堕胎更可取的选择的人停下来。
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Introduction: The Dobbs Issue Taking Children: A History of American Terror by Laura Briggs, and: Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology by Sonja van Wichelen (review) Originalism: Erasing Women from the Body Politic Separation, Sorrow, and Silence: What Birth Mothers and Birth Searching in Children’s Literature Can Teach Us About the Abortion v. Adoption Debate The Dobbs Decision and the (False) Adoption “Option,” A Personal Essay of “Ambiguous Loss”
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