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In reply to the discussion: What "Saving Unborn Babies" While Protecting Women's Rights Over Their Bodies Looks Like [View all]MH1
(17,573 posts)Hopefully you make the need for it rare. But when it happens, particularly as the result of rape, but importantly ANYTIME THE BIOLOGICAL MOTHER REQUESTS PRIVACY
...YOU RESPECT THAT PRIVACY.
Not like it is today, where adoption records can be unsealed by a court without any requirement to contact all of the parties involved and get permission.
This is a quiet problem with the adoption system as it exists today, because someone who has already had their desired privacy breached, is not coming forward to make a public issue of it.
Adoptees should not be raised to think they have a right to know their biological parents. If records were sealed, that should be the end of it. Unless and until all parties agree, without coercion.
Until I believe the law has been corrected in all states to respect privacy, I will never counsel adoption as an "option" for a rape victim.