I’ve had connection problems all day on Day 12, so here I am, on Day 13, writing Day 12, so I can start Day 13. Welcome to NAM/NAAM! It won’t be long. I promise! Go here for the background for this post.
I checked back on Callie Jett Pro-life, Pro-Love, Birthmom to catch her daily drag on adoption abolitionists. Like Donald Trump and Monica Kelsey, CEO/Founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, Inc., she never fails to deliver. This time around, she homes in on adoption destroyers: Ungrateful Bastards. This is pretty funny since I know more abolitionist birthmothers than adoptees–but then I don’t know her definition of abolitionist. As far as I know, the entire adoptee rights movement is abolitionist to her.
I’m not going to obsess on this adoption fetishizer, but boy, this did grind my gears. I‘m impressed, though, that Ms Jett mashed class, male, and white superiority into one sentence.
And the assumptions coming from a very privileged, not-adoptee, not-birthmother white woman who romanticizes the misery of others, while she demands that people she doesn’t know be grateful for “all she does!” Talk about “white women!” Here goes:
Nearly all the loudest and most obnoxious adoption abolitionists I have encountered so far have been privileged white women who grew up with the love and security of their adoptive mothers and fathers. a bit…it tells you something about human nature: privilege does not necessarily produce gratitude, and having what others desperately long for does not always produce an appreciation for its value.
Abortion, the elephant in the room, made an appearance of course. This is from a churchy white Arkansas adoptive mom:
I think it must be a leftist response trying to unite people around feeling outraged over something that has been accepted for milenna. And I think Roe v. Wade being overturned (thank God it was) has the pro-choice crowd frantic to discredit adoptive to maje abortion more attractive (disgusting, but I think that’s where their logic is headed).
Where have I heard that before? Oh, that’s right. Pat Robertson! As I have written elsewhere on DB, with a small update in the intro here, this is what i’ve previously posted about this nonsense:
July 2, 1996, 700 Club. The following conversation discussing Tennessee’s Doe v Sunquist is taken from the official transcript of that show published at the time on the 700 Club’s home page since erased. Sekulow was and remains the director of Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice and was Donald Trump’s personal lawyer during the Mueller investigation and Congressional investigations into Trump’s links to Russian officials. He was lead council for Trump during his two impeachment proceedings.
In this discussion Sekulow claimed, and Robertson agreed that the adoptee rights movement is a front, created by abortion rights advocates. I have written about this several places including here,
Jay Sekelow: P at, they have had to. Can I give you tangible evidence? No, but I can give you the legal evidence. We looked at cases in the Untied States where judges from a Court of Appeals all over the country said, “this type of legislation opening up these records like this is pro-abortion.” Those were the words a court said. There’s a North Carolina Court of Appeals, Louisiana Court of Appeals, Texas Court of Appeals. These same types of bills were being put forward and the courts said, “The legislation is not pro-life. They said the opposite. They said, “This is pro-abortion This will encourage abortions and discourage adoptions.”
Attorney Larry Crain who headed up the ACLJ case tried to walk back this nonsense. He seemed embarrassed. It was TV talk, not a legal argument. As for adoptee ingratitude. (1) Adoptee ingratitude (whatever that means) is not unconstitutional. (2) Adoptee ingratitude (whatever that means) is bipartisan. For Pete’s sake. Bill Pierce called Michael Reagan ungrateful! for finding his birthmother.
While opponents of adoptee rights might make intersections between adoption and abortion that don’t exist, I’ve never seen but Robertson and Sekelow claim that the adoptee rights movement and the abortion rights movement are in cahoots to bring down adoption. Lefties love adoption as much as MAGAS. Neither can get enough of us when we are babies. Grown-up Bastards. Not so much. In fact, not at all.
Ms Jett hasn’t responded to my request to name adoption abolition organizations and individuals and if adoptee rights organizations are on her shitlist. I don’t expect to hear anything.
If you want to read more about Pat Robertson’s views on adoption, go here.
Tiime to crash out for a while I’ve got to write up Day 13 and sent out some poetry about social media for an anthology called Brain Rot.
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