Feminism. As a female adult adoptee, how has the fact that you're adopted shaped you in terms of feminism and women's rights? Do you find the two related? If so, how? Explain.
I don't know if being adopted has shaped my views of feminism and woman's rights. I believe in equal rights, equal pay for equal work, equality in politics and every other area of life.
I believe in a woman's right to control her own body. I am very much pro-choice....now. Growing up as a teenager, heavily influenced by religion at that time, I was very much pro-life. And part of that I believe was influenced by being adopted. I was only looking at things from a naive, teenage view and reading the propaganda that "adoption is the better option".
Age, maturity and life experience has taught me that this is not always the case and that the decision to continue a pregnancy or choose abortion has nothing to do with the decision to parent or place.
I believe in a woman's right to control her own body. I am very much pro-choice....now. Growing up as a teenager, heavily influenced by religion at that time, I was very much pro-life. And part of that I believe was influenced by being adopted. I was only looking at things from a naive, teenage view and reading the propaganda that "adoption is the better option".
Age, maturity and life experience has taught me that this is not always the case and that the decision to continue a pregnancy or choose abortion has nothing to do with the decision to parent or place.
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