Using evidence-based research and autoethnography, I argue that adoption is not a viable alternative to abortion, namely, because adoption is not a reproductive choice. Citing my own lived experiences, both having been adopted and having had an abortion, I examine bodily autonomy, choice, and psychosocial wellbeing in both contexts.
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In the United States, nonpartisan acclaim for the practice of infant adoption has allowed the adoptive family to serve as exemplary and persuasive construct worthy of uncritical investment and absolute protection. The rhetorical promise of adoption thus allows dramatic moments of social change—mostly regressive—to draw on this widespread appeal.
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In this essay, I outline the importance of Reproductive Justice framing in understanding the broader impacts of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) and its impacts on adoption and foster care. From there, I explore another Supreme Court decision, Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta (2022), and its potential impact on Haaland v. Brackeen, a case that represents an explicit challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 which will be heard by the US Supreme Court in fall 2022.
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As of late summer 2022, adopted adults in only ten of the fifty US states hold the right to obtain a copy of their original birth certificate, an example of what Daniel Heller-Roazen historicizes as forms of nonpersonhood. In its cynically transactional embrace of adoption, the Dobbs decision smugly ignores the vexed history of adoption and personhood rights. In its warm embrace of common law precedent to criminalize abortion, Dobbs cavalierly offers adoption as a pat solution, oblivious to the irony that adoption did not exist in common law. Dobbs adoptees will too often face lives shadowed historically by forms of legal, social, and civil diminishment.
{"title":"Adoption, Abortion, and Nonpersons","authors":"Eric Walker","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0004","url":null,"abstract":"As of late summer 2022, adopted adults in only ten of the fifty US states hold the right to obtain a copy of their original birth certificate, an example of what Daniel Heller-Roazen historicizes as forms of nonpersonhood. In its cynically transactional embrace of adoption, the Dobbs decision smugly ignores the vexed history of adoption and personhood rights. In its warm embrace of common law precedent to criminalize abortion, Dobbs cavalierly offers adoption as a pat solution, oblivious to the irony that adoption did not exist in common law. Dobbs adoptees will too often face lives shadowed historically by forms of legal, social, and civil diminishment.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114496850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Difficult questions arise in the wake of Roe’s reversal, not least in respect of how fundamental rights, laws, and social policies will have to be amended to address the dark practicalities of legalizing state-enforced births and relinquishments. Templates and blueprints already exist: these can be found amongst the harrowing testimonies of many women and children who survived the “mother and baby homes” and “orphanages” over the past century, in various jurisdictions.
{"title":"The Overturning of Roe V. Wade: Some “Ageing Adoptee” Thoughts, Questions, and a Wish List","authors":"A. Diver","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Difficult questions arise in the wake of Roe’s reversal, not least in respect of how fundamental rights, laws, and social policies will have to be amended to address the dark practicalities of legalizing state-enforced births and relinquishments. Templates and blueprints already exist: these can be found amongst the harrowing testimonies of many women and children who survived the “mother and baby homes” and “orphanages” over the past century, in various jurisdictions.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114346513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Cold War, Greek-born adoptee reacts to the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which promotes adoption as a viable option to abortion. She argues that adoption should not be commodified to create a supply of infants for a perceived demand, and that adoption itself, as a practice, needs to be reexamined.
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An analysis of the Supreme Court Dobbs decision, highlighting Amy Coney Barrett’s argument that adoption “takes care of the problem” of abortion.
对最高法院多布斯案判决的分析，强调艾米·科尼·巴雷特的观点，即收养“解决了”堕胎的“问题”。
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The overwhelming majority of “adoption” mentions in the text of the Dobbs ruling are expansive rather than specific, referring to valued moments like the adoption of the Constitution. Adoption’s positive linguistic connotations help guide the reader to value child adoption, while also co-opting adoption in a ruling against reproductive rights.
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ABSTRACT:This essay is an autoethnographic narrative about what it means for an adoptee to begin to tell their own story and the implications for feminist and humanities scholars working in the field of critical adoption studies. Centering the notion that adoption is built on narratives and the importance of interrogating which narratives are in need of replacing, this essay explores the complexity that exists for adult adoptees who are the products of closed adoption and seeks to create space for healing those wounds by breaking long held silences.
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