Aimee Christian: Adoption doesn't mean abortion isn't needed, even if some Supreme Court justices think so. - NBCNewsTHINK
A friend suggested point-blank that I continue with the pregnancy.No. Just no. I couldn’t give birth and then give my baby away.? I couldn’t say. I’d always wondered why my birth mother decided not to have an abortion. Was it unsafe? Was she afraid to talk to her mother?, I’d long since broken up with the Parisian. When I met her, I asked her why she chose adoption for me.It was her parents who’d forced her to give me up.
Barrett’s suggestion that women who find themselves unintentionally pregnant can simply carry their babies to term and then easily surrender them because they are protected by safe haven laws are forgetting that some women and girls who want to keep their children are forced into giving them up either by their families or by socioeconomic or other circumstances, causing them irreparable pain and loss.
I love my life now, so of course my current answer is that I am glad I wasn’t aborted. But I do wish my mother had been allowed to make her own decision, even if that decision had resulted in an abortion or better use of birth control so I’d never been conceived in the first place. I wish for a world where women and girls, their bodies, their babies and their choices are not left to the courts to be batted around like badminton birdies.
Aimee Christian writes creative nonfiction and essays about identity, adoption, parenting and disability. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Independent, Cognoscenti and more. She is working on her memoir,"My Mothers’ Daughter," about adoption and identity. Find her writing at
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