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Why Adoption Isn’t Enough

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News, Society & Culture, Business

3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Adoption is often invoked as an alternative to abortion. But looking back at how adoption worked before Roe v. Wade—and looking at how it works now—the option is cold comfort for many people facing unintended pregnancies. 


Guest: Ann Fessler, author of The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade.


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0:00.0

Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill, with square wheels!

0:10.0

But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.

0:15.0

So you can stay one step ahead.

0:17.0

Soon it'll feel more like freewheeling downhill.

0:21.0

On a tandem!

0:22.0

What, mate?

0:23.0

With a messer on the back.

0:25.0

Oh, that's nice.

0:26.0

Search zero with an ace.

0:28.0

Because healthy business is beautiful business.

0:37.0

I've been thinking a lot about what's going to happen in about nine months' time.

0:41.0

It'll be spring.

0:43.0

Everything will seem a little brighter, a little greener.

0:46.0

And in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, canceling out the constitutional right to an abortion,

0:52.0

there might be a lot more babies.

0:56.0

This possibility was considered by the court.

1:02.0

The justice is, even seem to suggest a solution.

1:06.0

Adoption.

1:07.0

In his final opinion, Justice Samuel Alito assured readers that a woman who puts her newborn up for adoption today

1:14.0

has little reason to fear that the baby won't find a suitable home.

1:19.0

During oral arguments, Justice Amy Coney Barrett seemed to imply that because all 50 states

1:25.0

have safe haven laws, adoption might serve as a kind of substitute for abortion.

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