Adoption | Adoption Is Not an Alternative to Abortion
Katha Pollitt is an associate editor and columnist for the Nation, a journal of progressive opinion, and author of Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism. In the following viewpoint, Pollitt asserts that adoption cannot serve as an alternative to abortion. She claims that preventing a woman from terminating her pregnancy is traumatic and dangerous because giving birth to a child has lasting physical, emotional, and social effects upon the mother. Furthermore, adoption should not be promoted as a solution to poverty and unplanned parenthood. Instead of encouraging...
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