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Almost everyone believes that at some level birthmothers make a choice to give their babies away. ...Adoption is rarely about mothers' choices; it is, instead, about the abject choicelessness of some resourceless women.

Almost everyone believes that at some level birthmothers make a choice to give their babies away. ...Adoption is rarely about mothers' choices; it is, instead, about the abject choicelessness of some resourceless women.

Rickie Solinger
Mother, Baby, Believe
Rickie Solinger (2002). “Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States”, p.67, Macmillan

I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or deepen another woman's reproductive vulnerability.

Rickie Solinger
Believe, Choices, Degrees
Rickie Solinger (2002). “Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States”, p.7, Macmillan

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