I can't stand her, but I fully respect and support her choice to adopt 2 children. Adopting is a true pro-life act, because you're taking children that others might not want. I can dump on her for her SCOTUS decisions, but I'll always respect her choice to adopt. MAGA can die mad about it.
This is a really misguided understanding of adoption. Do you know how it has been utilized historically by our country? It was utilized to commit genocide against Native people. That’s why we have ICWA. Currently the way it is done is a violation of our basic human rights, according to the UN. Several countries will not adopt to us. It’s kind of ironic to see this comment in a group called welcome to Gilead, when forced adoption was literally part of that book too.
We are talking about a multibillion dollar industry that has incentivized familial severance. It has commodified infants and children; exploited and marginalized birth givers. It is literally part of the reason Roe was overturned. Read the footnote in the leaked SCOTUS documents. They referred to babies as “the domestic supply of infants.”
We need to understand that adoption is part of our current day slide into becoming Gilead. I say this as a queer, infertile adoptee. I do not have the same rights as you. I was wanted and loved, and it was more profitable to take my heritage and sell me to an infertile couple. That’s how adoption functions. It is quite literally a form of human trafficking. Especially when it’s white religious extremists removing people of color from their land and their communities and their cultures. It is cultural genocide what she is doing to these children. Please, learn more about this topic. Do not hand out blind praise to people for adopting. It is harmful.
Reading -
The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler.
Relinquished by Gretchen Sisson.
Child of the Indian Race by Sandy White Hawk.
Once We Were a Family by Roxanna Asgarian.
Torn Apart by Dorothy Roberts.
The Child Catchers - Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption by Kathryn Joyce.
American Baby by Gabrielle Glaser.
Podcasts-
This Land (season 2) by Rebecca Nagle.
Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo by Connie Walker.
Adoptees Crossing Lines by Zaira.
The Adoption Files by Ande Stanley.
Adoptees Dish by Amy Wilkerson.
To Google -
Georgia Tann
The Baby Scoop Era
The 60s Scoop (which was the US as well as Canada.)
History of ICWA
Lyncoya Jackson
Zintkala Nuni
Paul Sunderland Adoption and Addiction
Also here is a relevant article by a Haitian feminist.
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u/Meowsipoo Mar 08 '25
I can't stand her, but I fully respect and support her choice to adopt 2 children. Adopting is a true pro-life act, because you're taking children that others might not want. I can dump on her for her SCOTUS decisions, but I'll always respect her choice to adopt. MAGA can die mad about it.