Gretchen Sisson

Sociologist @ANSIRH/UCSF; author of “Relinquished." Please find me on IG (gretchen.sisson) or Bluesky (gretchensisson).

[Gretchen Sisson @gesisson]

@profsamperry It would not. We already have about 45x the number of prospective adoptive families as we do infants available. And over 90% of women denied abortion choose to parent, rather than relinquish. The availability of adoptive families is irrelevant to those making pregnancy decisions.

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@LizSzabo Depends on the type of data, but for counting abortions or demographic information on abortion patients, you’ll want the Guttmacher or SFP numbers that @RachelFey linked.

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@LizSzabo CDC abortion data doesn’t include CA, NY, and MD, states that provide a lot of abortions and also most later abortion care in the country.

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@AliceOllstein @drakejenn Yes, but never use CDC abortion data. It’s not comprehensive.

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@CCMFeltHats @Myrtle_Tee @kcmilani @cmclymer @makingofmepdcst Thank you, Carrie!!

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@ssteingraber1 WaPo might be tired of my letters to the editor, but here we go again.

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@scaredadoptee @theadoptedlife Thank you!!

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@corsent Possibly, but I’d want to look in more detail about what service providers it includes!

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@sydneybrokeit @corsent They use geofencing to market their services to vulnerable pregnant people at abortion clinics, public hospitals, addiction treatment centers.

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@naturenurture5 Thank you, Janine!!

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Tomorrow afternoon, my Seattle book talk with @theadoptedlife will be on @BookTV @cspan. I really enjoyed this conversation with Angela! Many thanks to her for joining me.

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@sarah__zoe @llmunro Of course. Just message or email me your mailing address. (Unfortunately, I can't message you.)

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@llmunro Thank you, Lisa!!

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@RudyOwensMemoir @ANSIRH Schuyler is a transracial adoptee, who has read/studied this quite a bit!

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@AnxiousRage @corsent In CA you can sign a waiver that immediately makes TPR irrevocable.

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@ssteingraber1 @kathrynajoyce Thank you, Sandra. 💜

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@LandisWeaver @corsent Here is that finding, which I also address in the book.

https://t.co/OCo59ACi0M

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@RudyOwensMemoir @kathrynajoyce My point is that adoption as an institution is conservative even if it isn’t recognized as such — it’s precisely a call for progressive/left of center electeds to recognize the ways it’s out of sync with their values. Having bipartisan support doesn’t make it less conservative.

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@corsent Thank you as always, Tony.