The New York Times is raising eyebrows over a guest essay calling out Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett for highlighting adoption while hearing the landmark abortion case.
During Wednesday’s oral arguments challenging Mississippi’s law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, Barrett put a spotlight on safe-haven laws in every state that allow people to “terminate parental rights by relinquishing a child after abortion” as opposed to the pro-abortion stance that banning abortions would lead to “forced motherhood.”
In a piece published Friday titled “I Was Adopted. I Know the Trauma It Can Inflict,” Democratic strategist Elizabeth Spiers began by paraphrasing Barrett’s inquiry, “Why was abortion necessary, when women who do not want to be mothers can simply give their babies up for adoption?”
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“As an adoptee myself, I was floored by Justice Barrett’s assumption that adoption is an accessible and desirable alternative for women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant,” Spiers wrote. “She may not realize it, but what she is suggesting is that women don’t need access to abortion because they can simply go do a thing that is infinitely more difficult, expensive, dangerous and potentially traumatic than terminating a pregnancy during its early stages.”
Spiers took a swipe at Barrett, an adoptive mother herself, for speaking of adoption as “some kind of idyllic fairy tale” while overlooking the “complexities of adoption and the toll it can inflict on children.”
The Democratic strategist detailed how she herself was put up for adoption as a baby and grew up in a loving home with her adoptive parents. She revealed she reconnected with her biological mother, Maria, and learned that she had three other siblings.
“I had a wonderful childhood and I believe she had made the right decision. But she remains heartbroken about the years we missed together,”…
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