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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?

 

Anonymous #4

In the past, I was focused on my sympathy and concern for women and I expected that many women don’t understand exactly what an abortion acc

Kevin Barnett

Sometimes I wish that I was aborted because of the trauma I went through as a foster care/adoptee. Government is quick to say and choose for

Anonymous #3

I am pro-choice. My response to aren’t you glad you weren’t aborted is “it makes no difference to me. Of I was aborted I wouldn’t know or...

Amy

Growing up adopted into a somewhat dysfunctional family, I so desperately wanted my own family. In college, I found myself pregnant with abo

Nicolas Kwatnoski

I should have been aborted. I'm happy to be here, but the right choice for my biological mother would have been to abort me

Jen

Regardless of how I morally feel about abortion, it is uncomfortable and saddening when I see people use me (re: adoptees at large) as justi

Mari Arneson

e. v. e. r. y. d. a. y. People who tout themselves as "pro-life" are in no way actually pro-life. They are simply anti-abortion and feel the

Lia Huxtable

I've definitely seen adoption be used as a rhetoric to push pro-life arguments (e.g: give birth then put the child up for adoption instead

Anonymous #2

Being asked if I would be okay with being aborted is triggering and I want to say yes, but keep quiet. Honestly, this is really depressing,

Anonymous #1

As a teenager, I sought a judicial bypass for my own abortion. My guardian ad litem essentially bragged about how in her 10+ year career she

Remy Porter

"Fuck you," is my main response. This isn't a good faith argument, it's a rhetorical trick, and it's not truly worthy of any sort of real re

Westley Reed

What happened, happened. I wish my bio family would have had the resources and support to keep me, but also if she truly wanted it I wish th

Lisa Mangano

I had an open adoption and it was very traumatic. I grew up sort of knowing my biological siblings but not really. They always tr

Emmalia Lutz

I would not have wanted brought into this world and raised by my biological parents. I am so grateful that I was adopted into an amazing fam

Renee Murphy

I say while I am grateful for my life, I think it would have been ok and potentially better for my entire biological family if I had not

Ruby Green

I wasn't angry at him being pro-abortion, I was angry that he not kept neutral by assuming that all women are pro-abortion and prioritized l

Katie Kaessinger

I think people automatically assume I am pro-life when I state that I was adopted — after all, adoption is often seen as a prime...

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