{"title":"Adoption, Abortion, and Ambivalence: Processing the Dobbs Decision","authors":"Cynthia Callahan","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0012","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the consequences of the Dobbs decision through the author’s ambivalence about the concept of choice. It weighs conflicting uses of choice to conclude that eschewing rights in favor of choice not only undermined abortion rights, it perpetuated inequities among American families and, finally, sustained simplistic perceptions of adoption that damage the project of adoption studies.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"223 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Adoption & Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0012","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay explores the consequences of the Dobbs decision through the author’s ambivalence about the concept of choice. It weighs conflicting uses of choice to conclude that eschewing rights in favor of choice not only undermined abortion rights, it perpetuated inequities among American families and, finally, sustained simplistic perceptions of adoption that damage the project of adoption studies.