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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?

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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? 

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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?

 

James Smythe

I am an atheist and have a very logical thought process. My opinion is that if I was aborted, I wouldn’t have existed, so it wouldn’t have m

Maria Soledad

When I bring up being adopted in conversations about abortion the people are often confused by my opinion whi

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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