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Prompt Responses: 

Adoptees were invited to respond to a prompt(s), sharing their feelings on abortion as an adoptee.


I contacted adoptees worldwide through online adoptee groups, organizations, and discussion forums and participants responded to the prompts via Instagram, WhatsApp and email. 


 

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Prompts:

1. As an adoptee how do you feel about the issue of abortion?

2. How do you feel being adopted has affected your opinion on abortion? 


3. Many adoptees have been asked "Aren't you glad you weren't aborted?", what is your response to that? 

4. Have you ever felt like your experience of being an adoptee has been misrepresented or used to advance a certain rhetoric? How does this make you feel? 
 
5. Can you talk about a time when you felt pressured to have an opinion on abortion?

 

Taylor Clark

It is my opinion that the wounds I carry (because of her inability to parent) could have been avoided, and that in many ways I wish they had

Karen Rafferty Keighley

Yes- most people used to assume I was pro- life before Roe was overturned. I explained to them what it’s like to be adopted and how....

Rae

The experience of being an adoptee has always been misrepresented and will continue to be misrepresented until adoptees are seen as the

Anonymous #9

I feel no one should be forced to carry a pregnancy if they chose not do so for ANY reason. No exceptions for rape, incest, life or health

Anonymous #8

My AP’s were very much pro forced birth and my Adad would regularly say he was glad I didn’t end up in a bucket. There wasn’t much room to h

Anonymous #7

I was raised Christian, now atheist, have always been proc choice, others bodies and lives are theirs. I chose not to have an abortion for m

Anonymous #6

Adopted child here. Live with adopted mom 6 months after turning 11. Always in the system. Abused. Manipulated....

Anonymous #5

I've never felt pressured to have an opinion on abortion, i"ve always had an opinion.

Randi

As an older adoptee, I am definitely pro-choice. I was born in 1958. My bio mom was whisked away to Florida where she apparently had to go

Emma

Abortion is a decision about whether or not to be pregnant. Adoption is a decision about whether or not to parent. Yes, a pregnant person

Julia

There is so much between living and not living that I don’t think people think of when they think of abortion. They assume that having a

Melanie Martinez

As a logical person, I understand that I could have been aborted and would never know about it. Was I even a person then? I have often wish

Madeleine

As an adoptee how do you feel about the issue of abortion? I believe that abortion is a totally valid option. I consider myself to be pro...

Laura

I was subtly indoctrinated into the pro life agenda. However, I'd always struggled with the obvious,

Stephanie Smith

I’d like to tell my bio family (and anyone reading this) that they could have aborted me, and I never would have known. I want to make it...

Cami B

The adoption process is long and difficult. The countless foster families and traumatic experiences adoptees go through are something nobody

Christian

I hope it doesn’t -I try to be a rational and intelligent human being and therefore I know that my story shouldn’t affect others people’s li

Sadie Flanagan

"Aren't you glad you weren't aborted?" No, I am not. My adopters were extremely abusive, not having dealt with their infertility traumas...

Nicole Smith

I was forced to have an abortion at 16 by my mother. I felt pressured to have a positive opinion about it because she wanted me to think it

Marie

If anything it's made me more pro-choice, not less. I wouldn't wish adoption on anyone and I had a 'good' adoption - I was loved and cared f

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