Adoptees who support Roe targeted by anti-abortion activists: ‘What if you were aborted?’

If you have never listened to adoptees, there are multiple adoptee creators on TikTok who document their stories and the issues with the privatized adoption industry (which is a billion dollar industry) and also former foster youths who are also adoptees who were abused in the system and by their adopted parents. People who say "just put it up for adoption" seem to think that adoption is this fairy tale ending for most kids and it's not. There are plenty of adoptive parents who abuse their adopted kids. There are adoptive parents who actually REHOME their adopted kids - there are FB groups dedicated to allowing people to post kids who need "rehomed" as if they are pets. It's pretty disturbing. Add in the fact a lot of women who give up their babies at birth were coerced into it - the adoptive parents are often times IN THE ROOM right after the woman gives birth (which is actually supposed to be illegal in some states but gets ignored). Since I've been listening to adoptees, I have a whole different view on adoption.

Adoption should be centered on what's best for the child. An adopted child usually has their entire identity erased when they are adopted. A new birth certificate is made. They can't access their original birth certificate from when they are born often times. They have no clue on their biological families so they miss out on key medical information. And open adoptions are not legally binding - even if there's a contract a lot of adoptive parents go back on those agreements and cut out of the first family. Many adoptees agree that there should be permanent guardianship until the child is old enough to consent to being adopted if they choose to be. Most people who want to adopt either do it because they have fertility issues or some other self centered want.

Also I never understood the "WhAt iF yOu WeRe AbOrTed?" What if someone was? Then they never would have existed at all. I mean - what if my parents had never met in college? Neither me nor my siblings would exist. Or what if my parents hadn't had sex the night that I was conceived? I wouldn't exist. If my mom hadn't had an affair, my youngest brother wouldn't exist. Or we can go back - what if my grandparents on either side hadn't met? What if when my paternal grandpa had decided to stay in the Army after his three years and hadn't married my grandma? Or had married someone when he was stationed in Japan instead? My dad nor his siblings would exist and I wouldn't exist or my siblings. Honestly I had wished my mom had aborted me when pregnant because she was horribly emotionally and mentally abusive to us so when people say that "what if you were aborted" I just laugh. I wouldn't exist if I had been while in utero and never have known existence.