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.

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.

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.

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

Thank you, Carrie!!

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

Thank you!!

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

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

Thank you, Janine!!

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.

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

Thanks, Lisa — Sarah, happy to send you a review copy if you’re looking!

Thank you, Lisa!!

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

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

Thank you, Sandra. 💜

Here is that finding, which I also address in the book. researchgate.net/profile/Gre…

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.

Thank you as always, Tony.