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Oct 31

A World Where Adoption Never Existed

The First Hours

B/W photo of mom’s thumbs and newborn’s tiny hands wrapped around them

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Oct 25

Abolish and Restore: The Case for Annulling Every Adoption Order

The Core Argument

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Oct 16

Architect of Someone Else’s Story? No, Thank You, Adopters

Confession in the Opening

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Oct 8

Anti-Apartheid, Palestinian Liberation, and Adoption Abolition

Common Root

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Sep 15

Stripped of Sovereignty: Abolish Adoption

Immediate Theft

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Sep 4

Why Neoliberalism Is the Biggest Obstacle to Abolishing Adoption

The Real Obstacle

Why Neoliberalism Is the Biggest Obstacle to Abolishing Adoption

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Aug 16

Abolish Infant Adoption: A Case for Human Dignity

Legal Fiction of Obliteration

U.N. Declaration of Human Rights booklet cover

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Jun 4

Total Trust Deficit: When Your Life Begins With Lies

First Lesson Won’t Hold

shattered toilet pieces, rocks, and bricks abandoned in dusty desert field

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Mar 22

Abolish Adoption: The Covenant We Broke

What Nature Wrote

Abolish Adoption: The Covenant We Broke

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Jan 29

Against the Clean Break: The Torture of Severing the Human Web

The ideology of closed plenary adoption rests upon two seductive, horrific promises: the fresh start and the clean break.

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