This week we discuss Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Christian adoption agencies, the "great replacement theory", and forced sterilization of women from Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous communities with a focus on how it all relates to the trauma in the adoption process for both birth mothers and children.

 

SOURCES

https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/bethesda-home-girls-stolen-babies/

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/

https://www.newsweek.com/how-this-legal-woman-exposes-child-rehoming-ad-adoption-agency-viral-video-1667464

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/adopted-children-rehome-ads-tiktok/

https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/forced-sterilization-policies-us-targeted-minorities-and-those-disabilities-and-lasted-21st

https://twu.edu/media/documents/history-government/Autonomy-Revoked--The-Forced-Sterilization-of-Women-of-Color-in-20th-Century-America.pdf

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/6030/ice-detainees-alleged-hysterectomies-recall-a-long-history-of-forced-sterilizations

https://www.salon.com/2009/09/02/adoption_rings/

https://www.newsweek.com/wokeness-has-come-adoption-its-children-who-will-suffer-opinion-1587611

https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Replacement-Theory-Explainer-1122.pdf

https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Replacement-Theory-Explainer-1122.pdf

https://ijrcenter.org/forced-sterilization/