CE Eligible

This talk examines the context of adoption in a world of increasingly constrained abortion access: how many abortions we expect will be denied, what increase in adoptions we can expect based on previous data, and what individual circumstances and social conditions lead to adoption relinquishment as reproductive autonomy becomes more and more limited. How do women and pregnant people make decisions about adoption, and how do relinquishing/birth mothers feel about their adoptions over time? This conversation will be guided by reproductive justice values and take a wide social perspective of how we can best support families post-Dobbs.