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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Adoption has been sold as this "harmless" alternative to an unwanted pregnancy.  Because in theory, the only person harmed was "the sinner" mother who got pregnant in less than ideal circumstances.  So advertising it as a saving grace for the baby and new family has deep political undertones because some people don't mind harming women to save babies.

Is it really better to essentially auction off a baby for $10-$50k to a "stable" family than to invest that $10k-$50k into the birth mother's life and help her raise her own child?  That's the question society should be asking.[/quote]
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Exactly

So, for those who were adopted in this time period, how do you look at your life now?[/quote]

I look at my life the same as I always did.  That doesn't mean I think that it's okay to ban abortion because women can "just" put their babies up for adoption, or that it wouldn't be better to invest more so that women can (1) avoid unwanted pregnancy and (2) keep their babies if they want to, but it doesn't change how I feel about my own experience.  I was raised by loving, stable, good parents, and feel really lucky to have such wonderful people in my life.  I feel compassion for my biological mother and the difficult situation she found herself in.  The fact that the system in the past had deep flaws doesn't alter anything about what happened to me and how I feel about it.  [/quote]

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