Though it’s not commonly talked about, one of the biggest reasons pregnant women aren’t interested in adoption is because relinquishing a baby can be a very traumatic experience. In Ann Fessler’s book The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade, women describe worrying every single day of their lives about the baby they were pressured/forced to relinquish and never feeling relief about the experience. One woman who had relinquished a child and then later had an abortion said that people who claim that abortion
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