We Both Grieved: Adoption, Abortion, and the Callous Indifference of Dobbs

Abstract

My experience as an adoptive mother who got to know my daughter’s birthmother during her pregnancy demonstrates the inhumanity of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which turns pregnancy into a fetal delivery system rather than a profoundly transformative experience. This de-humanization undergirds both the Alito/Barrett attitude toward abortion and adoption and the babies who are imagined as refilling diminished stock for the market in babies.