{"id":15634,"date":"2012-07-31T03:22:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T10:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15634"},"modified":"2012-07-31T03:24:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T10:24:08","slug":"adoption-is-not-a-womans-sole-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15634","title":{"rendered":"Adoption is not a woman’s sole decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ozy Frantz is a writer I almost always agree with. But in zir excellent article “11 Ways Men Can Be Better Feminist Allies<\/a>,” zie writes:<\/p>\n

8) Support women\u2019s bodily autonomy.<\/strong> On a political level, of course, one should fight pro-life initiatives, attempts to de-fund Planned Parenthood, forced sterilization efforts, etc. On a personal level, of course, it\u2019s almost more important. If your partner gets pregnant, it\u2019s up to her whether to have an abortion, give the child up for adoption, or raise the kid. Her body, her rules. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait a moment. The reason it’s up to the woman alone to decide if she has an abortion is that it’s her body, and as Ozy says, “her body, her rules.” I agree with that.<\/p>\n

But adoption doesn’t occur, legally, until after <\/em>the child has been born. At which point, the child is no longer part of the mother’s body. If the mother isn’t willing to raise the child and the father is, then the child should be raised by its father — and that should be the case even if the mother would prefer that the child be given up for adoption. (And, of course, the mother should pay child support to the father, assuming she’s capable.)<\/p>\n

As I understand it, adoption terminates the parental rights of both parents. For that reason, it should be agreed to by both parents.<\/p>\n

Or so it seems to me. Is there something I’m missing here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ozy Frantz is a writer I almost always agree with. But in zir excellent article “11 Ways Men Can Be Better Feminist Allies,” zie writes: 8) Support women\u2019s bodily autonomy. On a political level, of course, one should fight pro-life … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-structures-divorce-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15636,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634\/revisions\/15636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}