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Americans don’t need abortion because adoption exists.
That, at least, was the implication of comments made by Justice Amy Coney Barrett last week, as the Supreme Court appeared to edge closer than ever to overturning the landmark 1973 decision Roe v.
Wade and stripping Americans of the right to an abortion before viability.
During oral arguments December 1 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which concerns Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks, Barrett noted that all 50 states have safe haven laws, allowing a baby to be surrendered for adoption shortly after birth without criminal consequences for the parent.
If abortion rights advocates are worried about the burdens of forced parenthood, she asked, “Why don’t the safe haven laws take care of that problem?”
The idea that adoption is a panacea for unplanned pregnancy and a substitute for abortion is far from new.
Anti-abortion activists “have been making this argument for decades,” says Marcela Ho