, “Less abortion, more adoption. Why is that controversial?” In late June, Mike Pompeo, former U.S. secretary of state, tweeted, “Adoption, not abortion. With Roe overturned, we should find ways to make the adoption process in our country easier and safer.”
Adoption may relieve birth parents of parenting responsibilities, but it does not resolve the pregnancy, she added. Gretchen Sisson, a research sociologist at the University of California, San Francisco, said people who are seeking abortions are rarely interested in the option of adoption. Proposing adoption as an alternative to abortion does not meaningfully address the reasons why people seek abortions in the first place: Many abort because they don’t want to be pregnant anymore, not just because they want to avoid parenting, Sisson said.
Rory Hall, executive director of Adoption Advocates, Inc., said she also expects most people who are denied abortion access to continue to choose parenting over adoption. However, Hamm said she has recently seen more people in the early stages of their pregnancy contacting the Texas Adoption Center to explore adoption as an option.
Scarlett Anderson, an Austin resident and birth parent who chose adoption for their biological child, said they struggled with the decision. Their ex-husband pressured them into seeking an adoption placement, even though it was their lifelong desire to be a mother. In retrospect, Anderson said they believe adoption was ultimately the best choice for their now 2-year-old daughter because of their financial and physical circumstances, but the choice has weighed heavily on them since.
When people tout adoption as a replacement for abortion access, they often don’t understand the emotional challenges that birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees experience during an adoption, Hall said. The adoptive parents gain a child, but their joy comes from the birth parents’ pain, she said. As the adoptee grows up, they also may experience a sense of loss and identity crisis from not being raised by or knowing who their birth parents are.
Even after her adoptive brother was proven guilty of sexually abusing her, Jade remained with her adoptive family for several more years, which led to increased anxiety and trauma. She said Child Protective Services should have been more involved in following up with adoptive families to ensure adoptees’ safety and well-being.Hall said she’d like to see more people educate themselves about the adoption system and its problems before it’s promoted more.
Oh there’s the validation word again. “Experts”
Man, the really wants to kill babies...
If LTBG is legal cause is a life-choice - wby not abortion,prostitution, drugs all these are life-choices!!
There's 400000 kids waiting to be adopted right now
No.
Now do contraception and taking responsibility for life choices.
Good luck with that.
“Experts”
“can adoption replace abortion?” no. hope this helps!
Another Failure in journalism with a “both-sides” safe article. It is harmful to women, children (and men) to not forcefully state adoption is not the answer & government has zero standing in a woman’s decision. AbortionRightsAreHumanRights AbortionIsHealthcare EnoughlsEnough
'Experts Say'
So killing children is the answer? Sick
How can anyone who has worked in or studied our inconsistent foster care system, even suggest it is appropriate to consider that a safety net for any child who isn't immediately adopted?
Yeah, those kids should’ve been killed instead. Do you hear yourselves?
How can anyone who has worked in or studied our inconsistent foster care system, even suggest it is appropriate to considered that a safety net for a child who isn't quickly adopted?
sewellchan A related topic is access to ART, surrogates, and religious doctrines against ART. If potential parents could have genetic children more easily, adoption would be less needed.
sewellchan Life carries risk of trauma. But is it better never to have been born?
There are a ton of kids already in a system severely lacking money and resources. Where were the Republicans before their pearl clutching? Best, A former foster kid.
Sickening
Yes, life is more complicated, for sure. Killing a child is much simpler than raising one.
Everyday life is full of trauma and health risks. Adoption is a better out come for a child than death.
The child lives with abortion.
A few years back I was speaking with a pastor for local a women's shelter. She was trying to push this same line. Abortion was evil & adoption was expensive. Didn't I know how hard & costly it was for a good Christian family to adopt a newborn? Ask me how that conversation went😑
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This is horrifying. No one has the right to force a human to use their body for the benefit of another. Not in life or after death. It's wrong and it's dangerous.
'Experts say that adoption still carries trauma and health risks for parents and the children they place for adoption.' No trauma if you kill them first
Women's autonomy is the point. That's it.
So just kill the children instead is your preference, got it
“Experts” is liberal for “college kids we agree with”
So kill them instead? Yikes….
They aren't dead you clowns Good God
Pretty sure it's less traumatic THAN DEATH.
More trauma than being ripped limb from limb?
txlege needs to end the discrimination against adult adoptees by allowing them access to their original birth certificate Adult adoptees have a right to know their biological heritage. Cc: kevinsparkstx electcharles DrewSpringer Burrows4TX CarlTepper
No
These are horrible people.
Sorry kid, adoption can sometimes be traumatic so we’re just going to have to kill you
They can’t even run a successful foster system. Conservatives could have addressed these issues before trying to lobby for anti abortion legislation but that’s not how conservatives work. They let liberals clean their shit up as always
You’re right: might as well strangle everyone under adoptive care right now. For mercy.
Seriously? Not NEARLY the trauma & 'health risk' of dismemberment of the child.
Any child, whether born into a family or adopted, carries the same risks. Divorce adds to this potential trauma. So no children under any circumstances, species survival be damned.
Departing the mother in multiple pieces seems just a little more traumatic than departing the mother for another family.
This isn’t an argument for abortion. Lol.
It normally doesn’t result in the death of the baby though which abortion does 100% of the time.
Are you actually suggesting killing a child is a better “choice” than giving a kid a chance? Unreal.
Over 60 million lives have been terminated on an elective basis in this country since Roe. Every adoption arises from a less than perfect situation, and one needn't imagine it to be an unfailingly idyllic alternative to point out what an unbelievably vile argument this is.
Tell it to the man who deposited his sperm and split, abandoned both mother and unborn, could give a shit whether they both live or die, and will be long gone this child's next twenty years in a home unfit for adoption.
What it points to: the government has intervened to force a child to be born into a home unacceptable to any legitimate adoption agency, so that the child must be adopted out.
Comparing the health risks and trauma levels of being adopted vs death and dismemberment via abortion. R U SERIOUS?
Guess what? “Wanted” children experience trauma too. Killing someone so they don’t experience future trauma is disgusting.
LOL
Ah, I see. Face the trauma of abortion or risk trauma of adoption. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t murder.
My daughter is adopted. She’s super smart, funny, talented, and an all around amazing person who is going off to college nest week. Yes, she mourns her birth family. The world is a little brighter with her in it, though!!
'Experts say' Opinion discarded. Article picture nails it shut. Thx.
Every year in Texas, more than 1,200 young adults age out of the foster care system without being adopted.
So it’s better to just off them instead?
Rather that life come into the world and become something with loving parents.
There are nearly half a million kids in the foster care system now. I don't see the people endorsing adoption doing anything about it now.
“Experts say that adopting (a live human) carries trauma & health risks”….as opposed to abortion….your Friday Maoist (& Pol Pot) message from Texas Pravda. Ghoulish. KonniBurton Dallas_Matters
I’m adopted. Even found my birth parents. No problems here.
'It is better to be dead than to live through trauma'
If it is cheaper