The Adoption Files

Please join Lynn and I as we discuss the Introduction to Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics by Risa Cromer. If you haven't picked up a copy of the book yet, you can order it from Amazon or your local bookseller.

We try very hard to behave like adults while talking about this very emotional issue. The implications of frozen embryo adoption are profoud for many intersecting communities, as can be seen in the recent law in Alabama, declaring that embryos are persons. We attempt to remain true to Ms. Romers work while also interpreting it through the lens of adopted persons, persons with female bodies, and persons with female children or grandchildren. So buckle up! it may be a bumpy ride.

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Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics by Risa Cromer

Saviourism:Ms. Cromer discusses saviourism in embryo adoption quite extensively. Here this refers to White Christian Nationalist Evangelicals belief that they are divinely mandated to save "frozen orphans" . White Saviourism is an established worldview that postions white people as uniquely situated to save people in marginalized communities. Its a problem.

Nightlight Adoption Agency: the agency that pivoted to promoting frozen embryos as a part of their prolife ideology and their need for income.

The conservative math of one agency: 20,000 x 15,000 = 300,000,000

Baby Scoop Era:

Suspension of Disbelief:

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The opinions of the host and their guest are just that, their opinions. The host is not a lawyer, therapist, or fertility specialist. They are, however, a late-discovery, transnational adopted person with an attitude.

Please join me as I speak with Katie Nelson Burns, founder of The Family Preservation Project. Katie is a mother of loss to adoption who is passionately committed to preventing others from applying permanent solutions to temporary problems. As the creator of the project and as a board member of Saving our Sisters, Katie devotes a great deal to helping pregnant mothers in crisis.

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The Family Preservation Project:

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The opinions of the host and their guests are just that, their opinions. The host is not a lawyer or a therapist.

Please join me as I speak with adoptee and birthmom Rebecca Ricardo, LCSW about Virginias bill that will restore unrestricted access to Virginia adoptees to their unamended birth certificates. As an adoption professional, Rebecca is very well-versed in the way adoption is carried out in the state of Virginia.

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Virginia House Bill 550:

My apologies for the lack of editing on the episode. I discovered i need to learn a whole new editing program, as the platform I have been learning is no longer available.

The opinions expressed by the host and their guest are just that, our opinions. The host is not a lawyer.

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Please join me as I speak with Gaye Sherman Tannenbaum, a New York adoptee and treasurer of the Adoptee Rights Coalition. Gaye is a CPA who worked in forensic accounting. She now applies the skills she acquired as a forensic investigator to helping people with their genealogy.

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New York adoption law:

Illinois Adoption law:

Kansas adoption law:

California adoption law:

Ca AB 1302:

The opinions expressed by the host and thier guest are just that, opinions. The host is not a lawyer or a therapist.