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Adoption has always been the "common ground" in America's abortion debate, but what does it mean for the women who relinquish infants for adoption? Relinquished illustrates that when abortion is inaccessible or parenting is untenable, real reproductive choice is impossible. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about abortion rhetoric and reproductive politics, poverty and inequality, religion and American conservatism, and our country's refusal to care for families at the most basic level.
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Comprehensive and harrowing … a devastating and urgent condemnation of America’s adoption industry.
— Publishers Weekly
Starred Review
Essential reading.
— NPR
Sisson vividly renders a world where children are treated like consumer products and shifted around “for the benefit of others’ family-making desires and a lucrative industry.” She also dares to imagine a different world where Americans treat adoption like the justice issue it is.
— Washington Post
Adoption is often spoken of as an alternative to abortion, but is little examined for all its realities. Relinquished takes it on, and in so doing, contributes to our national understanding of what reproductive justice really means.
— Gloria Steinem
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Gretchen Sisson, Ph.D., is a qualitative sociologist studying abortion and adoption at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. Her research was cited in the Supreme Court’s dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and has been covered in The Washington Post, The Nation, All Things Considered and Consider This, New York Magazine, VOX, and other outlets.
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