Following the Dobbs decision, pregnant women uncertain about their future should be informed of all the options available to them, including adoption. For many, though, encouraging adoption is seen as coercive. Is this accurate?

In this episode, Naomi and Ian are joined by Kate Trambitskaya, CEO of Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children. For over 125 years, Spence-Chapin has supported women in crisis through comprehensive counseling. Kate explains Spence Chapin’s recent efforts to explain the differences between private adoption and public adoption out of the foster care system. The former does not involve government intrusion. Rather, private adoption is an alternative to parenting. Every expectant parent deserves to know that at adoption agencies nationwide, there is a waiting list filled with stable families who are ready, willing, and able to adopt children.

Resources:

• Adoption After Dobbs | Naomi Schaefer Riley | City Journal

• Birth Parent Support: The Spence-Chapin Way | Leslie Nobel | Spence-Chapin Services to Families & Children

Show Notes:

• 1:40 | What has changed after Dobbs

• 2:40 | Adoption as an empowering option

• 5:37 | Comparing adoption at birth with adoption from foster care system

• 9:45 | What does Legal Defense look like in the Foster Care System?

• 10:35 | The benefits of Open Adoption

• 14:55 | Is adoption an alternative to abortion?

• 21:45 | Who chooses adoption?

• 24:10 | Race and Adoption