Adoptees are told to be grateful they weren't aborted. They're protesting Roe's overturn.

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Activist Annie Wu, a Chinese adoptee, said she’s repeatedly heard the question, “What if you were aborted?” It’s an all-too-common hypothetical that anti-abortion proponents have lobbed at adoptees who publicly defend reproductive rights, particularly amid the recent fall of Roe v. Wade.

​​”If my birth mother aborted me, that would be FINE with me. I would not exist so I would not care or be impacted,” Wu, a digital organizer with nonprofit PA Stands Up, wrote in an Instagram post.

Many adoptee activists who support abortion rights say they are uniquely positioned in the crosshairs of the debate: Their very existences are often “manipulated” to advance anti-abortion views — with adoption framed as the moral alternative to abortion. They find themselves vulnerable to harassment, their experiences questioned or made light of, and their agency too often removed in the fight, they say.

Wu, who said she’s received support from many in the adoptee community, said she has been accused of supporting “murder” and been asked hypothetical questions about if “someone was to walk up and kill you right now.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/adoptees-publicly-support-roe-targeted-110751848.html

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1. Annie Wu speaks a truth impossible for them to comprehend or even think about.

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2. My adopted loved ones are among the strongest pro-choice proponents I know.

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3. I think adoption is

barbaric. It hurts the mother terribly, hurts the adopted child, and even the adoptive parent when that child wants to try to find their real parents. Formed this from speaking with many in those positions throughout my life. Just my opinion and we all know opinions are neither right nor wrong - they just are.

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4. Growing up with an unfit or even dangerous birth parent is barbaric, too.

So, what is left? Foster care?

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6. Abortion is an option for women who don't want their child.

But, if they give birth and are unfit, the child can and should be taken away. After that, most family courts give the mother a chance to demonstrate improvement in her ability to care for the child. If she fails, her parental rights can be terminated. But, before adoption is allowed, the father has to consent to it.

I have heard and seen too many bad foster care settings to recommend it for children.

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7. I am fine with adoption.

The poster to whom I responded called adoption "Barbaric." Suggesting foster care instead was a sarcastic answer.

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8. I am fine with adoption, too.

But I do not see it as an alternative to abortion for women who want to - or need to - terminate their pregnancies.

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9. Of course, it's not. Women should have the choice.

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5. "I think adoption is barbaric." Thats crazy talk.